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Warwick University rowing club women's team calendar

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duchesse · 14/10/2013 15:20

Are they being ironic?

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libertarianj · 14/10/2013 21:50

Fair play to them, they look all natural and very tastefully photographed. However i am sure it's only a matter of time until someone on here posts that it 'objectifies' women and it should be banned. Sad

There's more photos and a video on the Daily Mail web site:

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2458567/Warwick-Universitys-female-Rowing-Club-defy-critics-releasing-naked-charity-calendar.html

PumpkinGuts · 14/10/2013 19:47

It's cute that they think they "came up with the idea"... because they invented posing naked in a calendar.

Phaserstostun · 14/10/2013 16:18

Actually, looking at their website, both men and women's rowing teams have done this. Young people, eh?!?

Phaserstostun · 14/10/2013 16:10

There are precedents to this sort of thing. The French men's national rugby team did something similar recently, as have some of their clubs;

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieux_du_Stade

Some people might see these things as celebrations of human athletic physiques. Michelangelo and other historical perves of his ilk were also at it, many moons ago. Who knows what he would have produced with a camera or iPhone?

ErrolTheDragon · 14/10/2013 15:25

I'd have thought it was more inspired by The Calendar Girls than the Chippendales. Which you can probably unpack in a different manner...

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duchesse · 14/10/2013 15:21

I wonder if these young women feel empowered enough to do this in a sort of post-feminist ironic take on men's Chippendales-style calendars (themselves a take on the previous utterly un-ironic pirelli calendars). Just how many layers are there to this?

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