TroyDec 21

‘You put the top on and your life is sucked out of you’: The fight to change women’s sports uniforms

https://lemmy.ca/post/57243284

‘You put the top on and your life is sucked out of you’: The fight to change women’s sports uniforms - Lemmy.ca

When Olympian Tess Howard put on her new uniform for Great Britain’s women’s field hockey team in 2021, she felt something she hadn’t expected at the height of her athletic career: embarrassment.

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It’s a sad but fairly common thing - men’s sports is for “looking at sports”, women’s sport is for “looking at athletes”. That’s not to say that male athletes aren’t also sexualized, but much less and at least there generally performance > looks. Also shows in which companies sponsor what.

Personally I don’t care for most sports, but yeah.

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They are sexualized quite a lot it’s just not as obvious.
Dec 21 at 6:18pmWeb
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Bro’s never been to baseball night at a gay sports bar.