Beach volleyball, babes, bikinis and bifurcation
Cats: Uncategorized|Men who play beach volleyball wear sensible shorts and sweat-wicking singlets or t-shirts.
But women who play beach volleyball have to wear crotch-hugging, butt-bifurcating bikinis.
Why do women have to wear skimpy bikinis to play the same sport men play in shorts and t-shirts?
Or put another way: why don’t men have to wear butt-bifurcating, grape-smuggling speedos?
Well, the reason is that the organization that regulates the sport of beach volleyball restricts the maximum size of the women’s beach volleyball uniform. Women are required by law to wear those bikinis.
Is this rule advancing the sport of beach volleyball? Ha!
This is rule calcifies sexist attitudes that view women’s bodies as an objects to be looked at, drooled over and fantasized over.
Save that for the porn sites
The Olympics are about sports, not sex.
August 13th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
Tough to judge… I think maybe if you ran several pictures of female volleyball players, your readers could develop an informed opinion on the subject.
August 13th, 2008 at 7:47 pm
Alas, this is why I have given up my dream of Olympic beach volleyball glory - yeah that’s it, sure. It’s me standing up against the objectification of women. (It doesn’t have anything to do with the way I would look in one of those bikinis, or the fact that I don’t play volleyball all that well.) Damn the bikinis!
August 13th, 2008 at 9:33 pm
I’m all for bifurcation and grape smuggling…why just the other day, I happened to smuggle a lovely bunch out of the local superstore….thought it would be safe on this blog to come clean ’bout that….
August 14th, 2008 at 1:46 am
I think the athletic ideal would be elevated to a much higher degree if men’s beach volleyball aspired to the same heights of athleticism as women’s. Butt bifurcation for all!
August 14th, 2008 at 4:09 am
This is bad, but I cam across this on another blog just befre reading you today.
http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/6986/0pqzngvmaqhl7.jpg
It’s mildly NSFW..maybe?
August 14th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
Would you rather the guys have to wear speedos? Ewwwwwwwwww.
August 18th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
How about the outfits on the marathon women?