That having a bikini wax shouldn't be a necessary part of any job?

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I've been watching the amazing gymnastics at the olympics and every time I can't help but wonder if they are all happy to have such revealing gym costumes. I would hate to have a camera doing a slow mo when I'm legs akimbo in the air wearing so little even if the camera angles seem to be discrete.

I have tried to look up if there is a rule about the cut and if they wanted could they wear little shorts but I can't find anything. I did read if they remove a wedgie they get marked down?!

AIBU to think that in this day and age it seems a bit odd that these elite athletes need to be so scantily clad and that they probably have more to worry about than waxing, ingrowing hairs and itchiness in the run up to the games?

I love the mums on here defending men getting their rocks off watching their daughters wearing tiny tight outfits.

Be a gymnast! Oh, you have to dress so everyone can see your labia but that's okay. And if you don't agree, you don't get to compete.

"Look. They have a choice. Wear the selected kit, or don't play."

Nice

And somehow men can compete in volleyball and be gymnasts and whatever else without wearing tiny tiny outfits and yet, the judges are still able to assess.

Next on MN. Becoming a prostitute or lapdancer is a free choice and perfectly valid career choice.

I never ever showed my labia in 10 years of wearing a leotard.

I don't like it and I'm allowed not to. Men don't have to wear skimpy skintight clothing to play volleyball. It doesn't affect performance or your ability to hit the ball.

If my daughter ever wanted to play sport, I'd encourage her to do something where having a spray on outfit wasn't considered a necessary part of being on the team

Wtf lynda? You cannot see gymnasts labia.
Do you also think swimming costumes are for the purpose of men getting their rocks off? Let your DDs go swimming?
What an odd POV about gymnasts

volleyballmum you are coming across as one of those people who interrupts unrelated conversations to drop in that her child is an awesome [whatever] no-one was talking about your daughter. That poster was talking about gymnasts.

Showing your labia Don't be so silly.

I love the mums on here defending men getting their rocks off watching their daughters wearing tiny tight outfits

Now that is just disturbing and I don't think anybody has done that have they now.

you have to dress so everyone can see your labia

Are you confusing gymnastics with pole dancing?

Be a gymnast! Oh, you have to dress so everyone can see your labia but that's okay.

This is her comment. I have read her post. The volleyball comment was part of a separate paragraph later down the post.

Of course pubic hair removal is due to pornification.

Stop being hysterical. Pornification isn't even a word!

This came up on my newsfeed and I did go off on a rant about it because it really pissed me off.

No I don't want segregation. I want women to acknowledge that the outfits that women are forced to wear in some sports contribute to the pornification* of our culture.

And this attitude from young women's parents of: Look. They have a choice. Wear the selected kit, or don't play.

saddens me greatly.

*FYI FruitCider the faux HCA: www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/pornification
www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/11732558/Its-time-to-declare-war-on-the-pornification-of-childhood.html
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/pornification-9781845207045/

*HCP

This thread is infuriating. Firstly, it's a bit weird to assume gymnasts are all waxed. Who knows? I did a lot of leotard wearing as a teen and certainly didn't wax, never had a stray pube.
Second, why are we so ashamed of women's bodies? These gymnasts have worked hard and their form is a crucial part of the sport. It's kind of odd to want them to cover up to avoid men looking at them. I've never heard a gymnast (or a diver or a trampoliner) complain about their costume. It isn't a problem.
Men in gym/trampolining/diving also wear revealing tight clothes.
It's very different than something like high heels that have a detrimental effect on women to wear.
For some reason the women's gym really has people riled this year, I don't get it, they are amazing

Actually a penny has just dropped for me, this thread is a classic example of how what women wear is more important than what they do. Very disappointing.

Yeah. Goady.

How on earth is that goady?

this thread is a classic example of how what women wear is more important than what they do.

Isn't that exactly what OP and others have the issue with? That the appearance of the gymnasts (no pubes/underwear showing or marks deducted) is relevant when it shouldn't be?

FYI FruitCider the faux HCA:

Ohhhh get stuffed

Actually a penny has just dropped for me, this thread is a classic example of how what women wear is more important than what they do. Very disappointing

Exactly!

Another bronze in gym for GB!