The discrepancies in male vs. female Olympic uniforms.
Someone posted about it here. Their examples are all Australia's athletes, but apparently this is an international problem. Which makes sense because I'd assume the uniforms would be universal.
Also, creepy. The opening ceremony couldn't have just been awesome, we had to ruin it with that? Ugh.
By the by, the Indian women's beach volleyball team has declined to wear bikinis for cultural reasons. I think all the teams should decline to wear them for "I'm not buying into this patriarchal bullshit" reasons.
I do kind of love this line from a French volleyball player:
"Maybe once they see us, they will be inspired in the future to wear bikinis," she added.
They'll be inspired to throw away their thousands-of-years-old culture because they saw you in a two-piece? I don't know who she is, how she plays or what she looks like, but I don't think anyone can be so important/great at volleyball/gorgeous as to "inspire" the Indian team to do something so blatantly against their heritage. Merde.
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