Re:German gymnastics team, tired of sexualisation, wears uni...
by krapp on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @07:37AM
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> So this is largely a concern tied to the internet?
No, it's a concern largely tied to the male gaze[0] as capitalism. Social media just happens to be the popular medium for expressing it. But the exploitation of female athletes as sex objects [1,2] goes back much further than social media.
[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male_gaze
[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25658173
[2]https://www.cnn.com/style/article/edgar-degas-ballet-dancers...
Man I don't know what to think about that making folks change how they dress. It's their call but just not sure how I feel about that.
I saw some celeb announce that they were tired of nasty internet comments about their size and they wouldn't appear in any revealing scenes for now.
I'm all for their choice... but I couldn't help but think that there's some extent that they're engaging with / dictating their own choices based on some assholes on the internet who aren't going to go away...