mollywheezy | (Reply)

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I 100% blame the camera operators and the people who make decisions about what to show. But also, I don’t much care anymore. I’m not a competitive athlete, but I’m enough of an athlete to have needed to adjust things. Sometimes there is no private place or time to get there. And I’m totally used to being around other athletes who don’t care about my body - we get dressed together, we talk about our bodies, and we work really hard to not be self-conscious because that detracts from our sport performance. Multiply that by a gajillion for Olympic athletes on TV in front of thousands of other people. I think we do way too much body shaming as a society, but also way too much objectifying. As examples, we wouldn’t fuss nearly as much about those wedgies if American and Canadian women could wear bottoms that covered their rear ends properly for beach volleyball, athletics and gymnastics. Some other countries do have seat-covering uniforms, often at the insistence of the women themselves.

Man do I still manage to froth at the mouth about this, no matter how many times it comes up! LOL.