Gender Studies

1 - Am I the only one who finds it tacky when singers change the gender in songs? For example, when a woman sings "The Boy from Ipanema," or Yngwie Malmsteen's cover of "Gimme Gimme Gimme (a Man After Midnight)" where the parenthetical becomes "(Your Love After Midnight)"? I don't generally mind when song lyrics are given minor touch-ups - you can't listen to or play folk music without this element - but this particular sort gets my goat somehow. Maybe I'm being unreasonable. I don't know. Just a thought.

2 - It is wholly ridiculous that in Olympic beach volleyball, men wear shorts and t-shirts and women wear bikinis.