Arman · 8 answers · 4y

I came across a tweet that said: "There are some elements of sexism in women's sports uniforms. The mindset behind their design is like 'Women's sports are not worth watching so let's make them look sexy. Then it's worth watching!'" Whaddya think?

Yes. Remember the Olympics. The discussion why women's shorts must be tight and men's short must be loose cuts. There is no reason why an athlete must wear one sort. Due to making competitions fair it can be useful to agree upon a sort of sportswear that doesn't affect fairness, but why it that agreement in case of women means tight tops, tight shorts and nude bellies is beyond reason. The sportswear of that type does in fact show off the body in a way that is unrelated to the activity. If you can see the curves of breasts, labia, nipples or such or not is not relevant for sports. So why do we not have the situation that we also see testicles and penises moulded by tight shorts? I am a body positive person, I do neither object tight shorts, wide shorts, nor do I object to see penises, breasts, vaginas or such. I also would not object to have the Olympics like in the old times, athletes in the nude. The commercial operators would oppose that due to the fact that all the bigots would not attend. So it might not be a sexist thing all together, it could be that the old silly men in the Olympic organisation are more sexist than ever, but in the commercial environment sports do live in sexism IS a factor.

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