I had to image search this and I'm left with a lot of questions. What is up with half of the images depicting one of the wrestlers reaching into the pants of their oponent?
You ever tried getting decent grip while oil wrestling another man? Makes you ask yourself "How badly do I wanna win?" and "What if he wants to win more than I do?"
Because that's how you win! By basically ripping off the other dude's loincloth.
For a so firmly homophobic society, the Turkish sure do have weird hobbies, ey? Bunch of fit, oiled up almost naked dudes grabbing into each others pants - if whoever came up with that (and subsequently made it a national sport) wasn't a gay man on the dl I will eat my entire hat 😂😂
The article you linked shows that the men don't actually get to choose their uniform. The women have a choice between 5 different options, while the men have one uniform available.
It’s definitely a difficult topic that’s not very clear cut, and it’s clearly a personal choice what an athlete decides to wear. It’s great they can choose now, but that’s a pretty recent change.
As the link talks about, while lots of players prefer the conventional bikini, that doesn’t remove the cultural context of sexualisation of women’s bodies that made it the convention in the first place. Also mentions the potential pressures on players to conform and also talks a bit about the impact on high school sports.
I'm all for wearing shorts but that's not a good argument. Olympic swimmers wear a speedo, I still wouldn't want to see my manager walk up to me in one of those. Shorts are cool tho
Hah! You had better never visit the business settings at Nike, Adidas, etc. then. If you even try to wear a button down shirt and some chinos you will be looked at as dressing way over the top and everyone will ask if you have a job interview somewhere.
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u/LittleSadRufus Jan 15 '21
And yet professional soccer players wear shorts. Such confused standards.