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Can everything be sexy?
Topic Started: Feb 1 2008, 02:48 AM (99 Views)
Eral
Kopi Luwak
http://www.theage.com.au/news/golf/watch-t...1369226578.html

Tennis, netball, basketball and athletics have been greatly sexed up over the years. Serena Williams' sparkly bra strap, the skin tight short outfits, the swirly pretty coloured netball skirts- everyone can see that being an athlete doesn't mean you are (horrors) unattractive and unsexy. Millions of young women are sighing in relief, because now they can become tennis players and athletes and basketballers and not lose their femininininity. It was a cunning move on the part of sport organisers. While appearing to foster the kind of views that have kept women out of the way for hundreds of years, they stealthily open the way for women to enter, and then dominate. :evilgrin:

But are there sports that are irretrievably not sexy? I don't think even Marilyn Monroe would have looked sexy in golf gear.
Unless the women are going to play nude, or in bikinis, or pretty cocktail dresses, it seems to me the campaign to make golf sexy is doomed to fail.

Bowling could never be sexy, could it? Bowling shoes are something else Marilyn was not photographed wearing, to my knowledge.

Lawn bowls, definitely not. Some people have talked about letting people wear coloured shirts, and that was waaaay too risque an idea.

Cricket? What if they all wore shorts, instead of long pants? I'm sure women's cricket would get a lot more coverage - hell, they'd get a lot more players-if they ditched the culottes for women.

The women's baseball league in America: was that successful because of or despite the women's sexy uniform? I must go find out what killed it in the end.

Edit: http://www.aagpbl.org/articles/general.cfm?ID=5
The current professional baseball league for women wear pants.
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I think golf has always had attractive women players.

Any sport can be sexy except for marathon runners. I don't think the clothes or lack have much to do with the sexiness. See marathon runners.

In bowling you can't get rid of the shoes but otherwise you could slut it up.

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I'd like to add that at this point I have taken my Spider Jerusalem action figure and tied his wrist to my Cassidy (from Preacher) action figure just so I can work out which positions are feasible with them and which aren't.

Read that and weep, internet. Weep!

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Bex
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The bowling shoes may not be sexy, but I think that people who own bowling shoes can at least have stylish ones. That makes a difference....

re: marathon... yes, that is an ugly sport. Admirable in other ways, but not attractive.
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Eral
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Jan Stephenson would agree that there have always been attractive women in golf - her complaint is that they haven't been drawing attention to it. She feels Karrie Webb could raunch it up a whole lot more, and benefit the profile of golf world-wide. Karrie sadly remains unavailable for comment on the issue, and isn't in the Golfbabes calendar.

Bowling shoes can be stylish: but stylish is not necessarily sexy. Perhaps with a very short skirt, or skin tight pants for the blokes. Maybe Paris Hilton could use this idea for her next TV show. "Is there anything you can't slut up?"

A brief search of the internet has suggested that polo, skiing and kendo are unsexy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kendo
It would be hard to be sexy in that gear.
Polo, definitely unsexy.

Skiing, I don't know. It's glam, skiing, and therefore must be sexy. :huh1: :unsure:

Marathon running - indeed unsexy. That's a sport that all the skimpy outfits in the world won't help.



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Bex
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Skiing is drenched in sex. Or maybe I've just watched too many "ski school" type movies made in the 80s.

On the other hand, when I do it, skiiing ain't sexy. Too much spitting of blood involved.
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women's curling

HURREEEE! HURRY HARD!

But then

And this
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Krazy
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No, not everything can be made sexy.

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Millions of young women are sighing in relief, because now they can become tennis players and athletes and basketballers and not lose their femininininity


Lose their what now? :lol:

Seriously though is that really what they want? Women's sport already has enough problems about being taken seriously without having to go down the route of just becoming soft porn. Beach volleyball for example.
"Well, ‘course dis one’s betta! It’s lotz ‘eavier, and gots dem spikey bitz on de ends. "
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Polo players are hot, hot, hot! Male or female. :angry: :knight: Even Prince Charles (if you don't look too hard) doesn't look bad playing polo. Tight butts, strong legs, developed abs, defined biceps are not unattractive. I mean, Brazillians and Argentinians play polo! Not sexy??? :faint:

I was going to say curling but I didn't want to step on anyone's toes. I know it's a national obsession. :console:

The Olympics has a strange effect on me, no matter the sport, I find myself glued to the screen. Last Olympics, I followed curling.
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I'd like to add that at this point I have taken my Spider Jerusalem action figure and tied his wrist to my Cassidy (from Preacher) action figure just so I can work out which positions are feasible with them and which aren't.

Read that and weep, internet. Weep!

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So nothing to do with polo being played on horsies?
"Well, ‘course dis one’s betta! It’s lotz ‘eavier, and gots dem spikey bitz on de ends. "
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Krazy
Feb 1 2008, 12:36 PM

Seriously though is that really what they want? Women's sport already has enough problems about being taken seriously without having to go down the route of just becoming soft porn. Beach volleyball for example.

I agree with this young chap. Sepp Blatter's comments a few years ago spring to mind.
"Though
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." Alfred, Lord Tennyson - Ulysses
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Eral
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Krazy, there isn't enough room in cyberspace for the length of the diatribe I wanted to write after first reading that article. It is laden with :banghead: :medusa: :bash: :ouch: :spew: :spank: :motz: statements, and I have organised the burning in effigy of Jan Stephenson at my weekly feminista! meeting, after which we will discuss what we are going to do to Paul MacNamee. :grim: It's clear that a simple visit from the feminist SWAT team won't be enough.
I'm thinking we get all the women who watch golf to beat him to a pulp with nine-irons. Maybe putters. Both? We'll talk about it at our meeting. :ninja:

I apologise for the slur on polo, Regullus. Kerry Packer used to play, and I immediately assumed it must be unattractive. Now I think about it, Athena Onassis is married to a Brazilian polo player and he is a very good rep for the sport. The mallet isn't very sexy though. And jodphurs. Come on. Silly pants are not sexy.

Curling???? I was completely unaware of its existence. They used to play it with brooms? That is too fabulous! It doesn't appear to be sexy, though - too much like lawn bowls on ice. They should bring back the tight turtleneck jumpers.

Curling and skiing have the same problem - bulky clothes. It's tricky to be sexy in more layers than the Michelin man. The swoosh, swoosh in skiing gets sexy points though.

Is figure skating sexy? I personally think the tights they wear are terribly unattractive, and after Tonya and her hammer, it has seemed too scary to be sexy. But it does have skimpy, tight outfits. :unsure:

Synchronised swimming -not sexy. Nose plugs. Game over.

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Bex
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Awright, this is my figure skating story....

Figure skating is a giant big huge deal in Canadia, BTW.

J's mom took us to a figure skating exhibition event one year, I think for a Mother's Day celebration. Earlier in the day, I was talking on a cell phone to a friend, long distance, and the reception kinda sucked, so I was standing on the fence in the back yard to make it better, with the idea that the added height improved reception (it seemed to, anyway). At any rate, I fell off the fence. Not really such a big deal.

Later, as we watch the skaters, J says how much he enjoys it because, "they're so poised."

My response? "I fell off a fence earlier."

We both cracked up.
I belong to one of those families that does not speak to or see its members as often as we should,
but if someone needed anyone to fall on a sword for her, there would be a queue waiting to commit the deed.
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Feb 1 2008, 11:05 AM
So nothing to do with polo being played on horsies?


Regullus
 
Tight butts, strong legs, developed abs, defined biceps ...


Good Lord, Man, isn't that enough? Naw, you don't really need the 'horsies' :eral: when you got all that going on.
tempus_teapot
 
I'd like to add that at this point I have taken my Spider Jerusalem action figure and tied his wrist to my Cassidy (from Preacher) action figure just so I can work out which positions are feasible with them and which aren't.

Read that and weep, internet. Weep!

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