REALLY Spectacular
I'm really enjoying not caring about the Olympics this cycle. But there was a comment on another blog that got me thinking about the sexism of it all. It had to do with beach volleyball and how the women are in bikinis - which is obviously the main attraction to beach volleyball - while the men are attired more athletically.
Around the same time, I saw a photograph of a young woman who had just turned 18. She was posing topless in what publishers like to call a "family newspaper" (you know, like Hooters is a family restaurant where the wait staff just "love children" on account of their big breasts that families TOTALLY get off on because it reminds us all of a simpler time when we were breastfeeding instead of eating out in pedestrian restaurants that cost just as much as good ones) and if it had been anywhere else, somewhere nudie pics appropriate, I'd have thought, "Wow, spectacular - and REAL!"
Still, her breasts were real so maybe that's more important than most of the news, that there's a Western woman aspiring to be a nudie pics worker who hasn't had breast butchery, thereby endangering her health and well-being, to give her breasts that huge unnatural look that men who deep down hate women enjoy so much.
And beach volleyballers look amazing, their bodies all buff WITH curves - a tricky feat for any female athlete because working out burns fat and that's what breasts are, afterall, lovely bits of fat. Now, when I was younger, I would have taken the view that the organizers behind the beach volleyball bikini uniforms for women were just being sexist - and maybe some of them are - but with age comes a renewed appreciation for the human body and I realized that if I was a beach volleyballer and I looked like those women do - I'd want to show off my physique.
Because athletes are their bodies and women have that extra appeal in that we're just more fun to look at. And I don't think the sexism of the ages should be allowed to intrude on the fact that both sexes, from a spectator point of view, appreciate the female form - naturally - in a way we don't so much want to see men in speedoes no matter how spectacular their pecs and abs.
So, I'm reclaiming female form appreciation from the misogynists-at-large who have made a grotesque mockery of it to say there's nothing sexist in beach volleyballers playing in itsy bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikinis when viewed from the perspective that - hey, we've just got it so why not flaunt. It's spectator sports we're talking about here, afterall.
To be more precise - BEACH VOLLEYBALL!! - ferchrissakes!!!!!
