Evidently Rusty doesn’t get it. I guess we’ll just have to post olympic boob pics.
PS: watch the video posted above by InnerStickler.
Yes I am, and she is a wonderful exception
Your original statement was that elite female athletes do not register on the boob scale. You then wrote “You will find no female competing in the olympics in track, (and probably field )that needs a bra.”
I presume you aren’t referring to the theory of evolution by natural selection, but an artificial social trend (unraveling) for women with little body fat to be better athletes. I get the impression that this offends you because reasons.
By the way, as far as I’m aware, the woman in the video is not an Olympic athlete. I’m fairly sure the point she’s making is going over your head.
Hallowed be their names.
rustyrunner appears to be saying that athletics selects against women with breasts. Essentially what the column was addressing.
There is some selectivity against boobs. Sportsbras do help. Not that I would know. Still, plenty of women athletes have boobs. Even in track and field. Just a sampling…
Allison Stokke, pole vaulter
Leryn Franco, javelin thrower (second link mildly NSFW - shows swimsuit and a fair amount of skin)
Dawn Harper, 100m hurdles Silver Medalist
2012 Olympics, women’s marathon
Check especially at about 10:20, and again at about 11:35. No floppage, but some very nice, very attractive jiggling.
Holy crap. I couldn’t believe how annoying her accent is. And then I realized she’s from my neck of the woods, and her accent is a grotesquely exaggerated version of the local accent. I’ve literally never heard anyone else talk like that, but at least now I know what we all sound like to other people. =)
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I have no idea what you are getting at other than you choose to distort a simple obversation. Americans (forgive me if you are not) tend to do that.
So, your original argument was NOT that athletic women are so masculinized that they have breast tissue in amounts comparable to men? Because it sure seems like that’s what you’re arguing. Also, it’s bad form to accuse others of deliberately misinterpreting, especially when multiple people have asked for clarification of you already.
Your description is very accurate!
Er, so what? Complaining that female Olympic athletes don’t meet your personal standards of sexiness is like complaining that the space shuttle has bad feng shui. Only a lot more misogynistic.
I struggle to answer you in a meaningful way. As I have said it was a simple statement of observation, but born of how I realised my daughter would likely inhibit her great athletic ability as she got older to female genetics.
You can take what you like out of that. It applies to males but I believe more so to females. For a female athlete today to compete on the world stage in athletics requires a certain state which I believe means almost breastlessness.
With rare exceptions that is completely obvious. I don’t make any social or psychological statements about that.
Your thinking is backwards. You have no idea what sort of breast size, shape, and volume elite female athletes would have if they spent less time training rigorously. Body fat is reduced by heavy exercise, and the women you are observing are likely to be wearing compression garments.
I think you’re making a lot of assumptions and drawing unsupported and unwarranted conclusions from them. You may also be misled both about the dramatic way boobs can both be flattened by taping, binding and sports bras and accentuated through padding and clothing cuts.
And all it takes is one exception. That daughter of yours may be the next Serena Williams - voluptuous *and *athletically gifted. Don’t even think about dissuading her for what might be, please, I beg you.
I actually was told once as a child that I might as well give up ballet because my voluptuous grandmother picked me up from class one day. The teacher looked at her curves and my resemblance to her and told me I’d never grow into the body of a ballet dancer. And, y’know, she was right. It was still a horrible thing to say to a 6 year old. And if I had a time machine, I’d go back and give her a piece of my mind, or at least beg her to tell that 6 year old that she might want to check out modern dance, instead of ballet.
So what planet do you come from?
I take your point, but it fails in my view.
Body fat is reduced by heavy exercise as you say, but breasts are the last to go, for good reason.
I reject your assumption that I have no idea about elite athletes. I know many and have one in my own family. Don’t assume!
Everyone loses fat from their bodies in a different order when they exercise. I would say it’s more credible to think that fat simply doesn’t get stored as readily in an olympic runner’s breasts since the body is going to want to augment the legs, thighs and core more so than the relatively unused upper chest.
You are a wonderful exception, and an inspiration!
Perhaps if you would respond to the counterexamples given in this thread we might not have to assume. A lot of us know elite female athletes, and there’s many of them that need to wear bras. It would appear that your premise is somewhat off, regardless of what conclusions you draw.