i had been mulling this for awhile ngl
The greeks just did this naked and skipped the apparently ridiculous amount of materials science needed to wear clothes while jumping.
Also, gymnasts being absolute beasts who can and will do gymasitcs with broken wrists and ankles i'm a little surprised this was even considered.
It does strike me as a little odd that we've become so terrified of our own bodies that we'd rather put in all this effort than just be naked for a bit. How the hell did we get here?
I've heard running and jumping around with boobs isn't the most comfortable.
And I can personally confirm that running around with your dick flopping everywhere is not the best.
running and jumping around with boobs isn't the most comfortable
can confirm that it is not, and if you get a menstrual cycle, certain times of the month it might actually be more like "exceedingly painful" as opposed to "not the most comfortable"
like smacking a swollen bruise, but your whole tit is the swollen bruise
There's some evidence that sports bras are a truly ancient invention.
I wonder if anyone has looked in to Europeans enforcing nudity taboos as a way of creating a distinction between "civilized" European clothes-wearers and "savage" normal people who didn't have the same nudity taboos. Sort of parallel to the enforcement of Euro family and and sexual norms.
media figuring out sex sells somewhere between 1950-1980 so most people are overly titilated day-to-day and thusly judge any nudity as sexual
nah idk just spitballing
Yeah I mean I think it's closely related to the constant sexualization of not only nudity but of basically every aspect of the human body, but I'm not sure if it's directly caused by that or if that's just another symptom. I think modern religious views of the body also sexualize pretty much all nudity but in the opposite way, where it's inherently shameful and wrong to be nude because sexuality is bad and nudity is sexual. Is that the source, or just another symptom?
I don't know, shits complicated
Media figured out sex sells way before 1950. Even the phrase "sex sells" was around as far back as the 1870s. Cigarettes used to come with nudes.
the apparently ridiculous amount of materials science needed to wear clothes while jumping.
I mean the article basically just says they custom tailor them to the athletes' bodies, and that a lot of athletes also glue it on just in case. Neither strikes me as particularly crazy or materials science-y, besides maybe the creation of body glue that can hold on through sweat. I don't think of elastic or artificial fibers as being like, a ridiculous or undue amount of materials science, they're also just the cheapest option at this point
tl;dr: butt glue and tailoring
Nevah thought of the question itself...
why the fuck are women expected to do sports in leotards in the first place, men aren't. Let them wear wrestling singlets or something.
It feels like sports overly sexualize the athletes, tbh. Like I don't care if the athletes themselves choose this, but I suspect that it's a marketing thing.
I recall this getting brought up quite a bit. Beach volleyball women have to compete in pretty small bikinis, and with no reason ever given. One team was pretty dead set on competing in shorts, but I don't think it was allowed.
Women's water polo uniforms are terrible this year, just look way too revealing and uncomfortable.
Gymnastics I have no clue because there's a big aesthetic component to it, and they're all sequined and cool. I don't think I've seen any competitors complain about them.
The men's gymnasts typically wear leos, they just also wear pants or shorts in addition. At least, that was the case when I was briefly a male gymnast in high school and had some pretty massive leotard wedgies
Ofc that was just my experience, I suppose it could be different for Olympic athletes
alotta the male athletes get pants so it got me wondering what would happen if i was flopping out there with a lil swimsuit and my twig and berries
I was going to make the usual crass jokes about ladies duct-taping their attire to their tiddies, but that’s apparently a more or less accepted solution , manual adhering.
Also, there’s the fact that these are the elite of the elite- I reckon they train for wedgies just like they train for their floor routine. What’s the equivalent of posting thru wedgie pain because that’s what they’re doing here, they’re posting thru that shit. They aren’t going to let a little annoyance like undies sliding into a place they should not be sliding bother them. They were born in it, molded by it.
i wasn't expecting the answer to be "butt glue" either when i googled it tbh
Theatrical glue and tiddy tape are really spectacularly useful stuffs.
Huh. You know, I figured they just kind of accepted the wedgie if it happened. I didn't know it was a whole field of engineering which will eventually lead us to fully automated luxury gay space communism
dae le releveant username GOOD SIR fuck i should just kms after writing that
