Opinion | emmaladyrose: Even being a world-class athlete won’t shield you from having to deal with misogynist crap.
Beach handball isn’t the first professional sport to attract controversy due to skimpy uniform requirements. Until 2012, female Olympic beach volleyball players were required to wear bikinis . For the last decade, the teams have had a choice. The change was made to increase both individual comfort and collective cultural inclusivity.
Obviously, there is nothing inherently harmful about a bikini, in sports or otherwise. And as beach volleyball superstarin 2016, “When it comes to beach volleyball, we’re playing in 100-degree-plus weather.” However, when required athletic uniforms are dictated by gender norms rather than the needs of the athletic activity, therein lies the problem — and the deeply embedded sexism.
To pretend that the way athletes are costumed has no bearing on the way they are perceived would be naïve. There is a reason that: close-ups of butts and torsos and chests rather than as living, breathing, moving marvels. To force female athletes to wear outfits they feel fundamentally limited by or uncomfortable in only serves to perpetuate the idea that they exist, first and foremost, to be consumed. The men can play. The women are putting on a show.
There is a tendency to put a premium on pre-existing rules simply because they exist, a veneer of legitimacy that is lent to norms and regulations within the sports arena, even when those norms and regulations were instituted within a specific, often harmful cultural context. This is why the run-up to the Tokyo Olympics has spurred difficult but important conversations about things like the
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