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It ’s time for the Summer Olympics ! You have it away what that means : the greatest , most talented athletes on Earth ; gathered together for a favorable competition promoting world peace , par , international favor , good will among world …
And another long - standing Olympic tradition : theendless onslaughtof net posts , slideshows , listicles , and round - ups of the red-hot female jock competing this year . Just recollect of how proud the women from the 1900 Paris games ( the first Olympics to receive female athlete ) would be to bang they broke barriers so you could touch yourself tolistafterlistafterlist(afterlist … really it just goes on forever ) of objectified distaff forms .
Oren Aks/Thrillist
Sorry to burst your semitrailer , but women do n’t spend their lives honing their bodies and gymnastic abilities for be sexy . Surely they don’tmindbeing aphrodisiacal ( who would ? ) , but that ’s not why they sacrificed friendships , families , and careers . Slideshows that round athletes up like a Victoria ’s Secret calendar completely undo decades of battles over gender equation ; conflict STILL reproof today as we grapple with large publication like equal pay , abortion , and the race for the White House . But before we push THOSE spicy buttons , let ’s just start with a definitive squelcher of these reductive and slow-witted pussy parades .
Female Olympians are not there for your enjoyment
Like anymaleathlete , female Olympians epitomise strong oeuvre and exponent : years of forfeit , blood , sweat , and snag . Yet delineate them up in a slideshow perpetuate the overweary , long - ingrained idea that women are object for valet de chambre ’s pleasure . EvenOlympic athletesare there to get world off . It promote the impression that whatever a fair sex does in this globe has to somehow be repackaged for a man . All while being told once again by the media how beauty is delineate and packaged .
Athletes are more than just body parts
You might plume yourself for celebrating the athletic distaff signifier , versus the macerate Kate Moss - dash models in hardly there couture . But get ’s be real here . These slideshows are not title " Female Olympians With the unattackable and Most Muscular Bodies " or " Most Successful Female Olympians . " You are not clicking through these slideshows to get up to date on Anna Kournikova ’s stats … not unless her stats are tattooed on her two-piece line .
This is n’t about athletic accomplishment . At all . Unlike ESPN ’s " Body 2016 " study , which does a superb job of showcasing the bodies of athlete ofallshapes , size , and genders , " hottest distaff jock " slideshows have nothing to do with athleticism or lionize the human form .
They are about hot woman . Who also pass off to be athletes .
They break away badass woman down into basic , bosh - suitable body division . These womanhood have come a foresightful , retentive path to vie in an arena in the same content as men on an outside grade – but what we do is render them to nothing more than tits and arse … albeit with a few more muscles in between .
But badly , congrats on being so progressive .
This has NOTHING to do with the Olympics
reckon if you date a slideshow style " The Sexiest Women In Congress , " or " 11 Hottest Female Professors in the Country , " or " The Hottest Female [ sneak in ANY CAREER BESIDES career BASED ON PHYSICAL APPEARANCE ] . " It understate , nay , eclipses , the accomplishment of these woman and you ’d conceive these aforementioned slideshows were ludicrous , chauvinist , and plain in pitiful taste .
It’s the same thing with sports
These woman are not in the Olympics to be " sexy . " Their bodies are byproduct of training strictly their full life . Nothing about being in the Olympics has to do with vanity or ornamental validation . It ’s about setting seemingly undoable goals and work every day to accomplish them . The goals just happen to be physical . But these slideshows put the sport part second . It says that woman ’s summercater are n’t " real " athletics – but as long as you look good doing them , then you ’re cute for try , honey !
It means attaining Olympic status isn’t enough
Lining up muscular and athletic women in a scrolling sex activity montage drives home the notion that cleaning woman have been desperately trying to untie – that to be successful you ca n’t just be unspoiled ; you also have to be gorgeous . Otherwise , you ’re " less than . " Where is the pre - Games slideshow of the retiring female gold medalists ? Best goalies ? good in freestyle ? Oh right … they do n’t exist because those click - values picket in comparison to the click values of the Olympians who might not necessarily be the serious , but my Lord , do they take care effective with their leg splayed and their honey - glaze over abs .
The fact that male slideshows exist doesn’t make this OK
To say a manlike slideshow is just as demeaning as a female one is a double standard that wholly ignores gender disparity . womanhood have NOT had it the same as mankind in any character of professional stage setting . Working woman ( including professional athletes)make 79%of what men make . Regardless of what you feel about politics , it ’s 2016 and we JUST nominated our first female presidential nominee … and still at least four major news publication choose to run that story using a photo of her husband , instead .
Sure , the slideshows objectifying men are bad . But … is that really the argument you ’re going to make ?
As much as we want to think all Man are make equal ( and by " men , " I ’m SURE our founding fathers meant " men AND woman " ) we still very much are n’t treated as such . The bottom line is that distaff Olympians do n’t go to the Games for YOU . Their perseverance and endless strong-arm labor is not so that they fill up out that backless dress to flawlessness . They are machine . Powerhouses . Women who strive to plain as much rear end and take as many names as any other man : man or adult female .
And they do n’t need you to severalise them they are sexy , and therefore , successful . The gold medal will be enough , thank you .
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