Immodesty with athletes

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AtDawn said:
Female athletes got to look sexy, or they don’t get sponsors.
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There may be some truth to that. I cannot for the life of me remember a product that Martina Navratilova endorsed.
 
CrossofChrist said:
Do women consider the pants baseball or football players wear immodest?
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You obviously do not mean offensive or defensive linemen…😃

Baseball!?

I think your question is a matter of the “groin” area and to that I will just say that there needs to be a certain amount of protection there and what you are seeing in the area is most likely protective gear.
 
(Oh, how I wished I could share what my Grandma used to say on the matter. It made me chuckle.)
 
Speaking of this topic, I’ve been mulling buying this for running:

underarmour.com/shop/us/en/1245854/pid1245854-001

Now that it’s starting to get a bit colder.

There are much cheaper exercise pullovers out there, but on the other hand, a portion of the money goes to a cause I support. I’ll probably break down and get it.
 
AtDawn said:
Female athletes got to look sexy, or they don’t get sponsors.
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Sadly, there is probably a lot of truth in that.
Loki(name removed by moderator) said:
Probably to keep them cool and to create less drag. Just my guess though, I honestly can’t say I know lol. I don’t think anyone would see it as anything sexual though, unless they chose to make it that way in their minds.
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Then if that were true (keeping cool, less drag) then why wouldn’t men wear cropped tops (or no shirts at all)?
 
Hoosier_Daddy said:
You obviously do not mean offensive or defensive linemen…😃

Baseball!?

I think your question is a matter of the “groin” area and to that I will just say that there needs to be a certain amount of protection there and what you are seeing in the area is most likely protective gear.
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That’s right. You’re not seeing a package, but a container. 😃
 
Zoltan_Cobalt said:
I would be more concerned with men’s swimwear as seen at Olympic events. That makes NFL and baseball outfits seem positively Victorian.

Also…women’s gymnastics and synchronized swimming costumes should cover up a little more than they show off.
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Diving, perhaps, but they are on screen for so brief a time. The Olympic-class swimming speed suits I last saw covered almost as much skin as a basketball uniform.
 
Lost_Sheep said:
Sadly, there is probably a lot of truth in that.

Then if that were true (keeping cool, less drag) then why wouldn’t men wear cropped tops (or no shirts at all)?
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Well I think in running they need a shirt in order to identify who they are, and their team, their number, etc. And they don’t want to put guys in cropped shirts because it would look like a sports bra and would look silly and feminine.

Not all sports have women wearing cropped tops, so I tend to think there’s something about running that makes it useful. I’m trying to think, if I was a coach for an Olympic team and I had to play a role in designing the uniform, I would do everything I could to design it in such a way that would give them the best possible chance of performing to the best of their abilities, so far as it doesn’t make them look/feel silly or ridiculous.

I was in cross country and track when I was in High school, and while our school team’s uniforms consisted of a baggy tank top and long, baggy shorts, a lot of the other girl’s teams had them in tight little panty like bottoms and cropped, sports bra like shirts. I highly doubt this was due to sexual purposes especially since one of the teams I remember having that was Notre Dame High School.

Not everything is always about sex, and while I’m sure there are Olympians out there who like to look attractive in order to get attention and get sponsors, I don’t think this really influences the size of shirt they wear while running in the majority of cases. Just MHO. 🙂
 
Loki(name removed by moderator);123197 said:
Aren’t men’s tight fitting too?

And the no midriff is probably bc it would look like the guy was wearing a sports bra lol. I’m not sure though.

One of the acceptations to this though, is swimming… in which women have to wear a one piece starting from their sternum going all the way down to almost their knees, while men are covering up nothing but their privates bc any piece of clothing will cause drag and slow them down.
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Hmm, I think we’ve been seeing different swimmers, at least when I was in high school, the guys wore a mix between speedo briefs (the little ones) and jammers, which are tight but go down almost to the knees. Girls typically wore a standard 1 piece suit, with the brief style cut on the bottom, open back, sometimes with spaghetti type straps/sometimes with a thicker strap, but usually the same style. For bigger meets at the end of the season, they may move into the more expensive ones - down top the knee, maybe a zip up back, and usually at least a size or two smaller than what they’d normally wear.

Trends among Olympians geared towards more covered for a while as they had a swimsuit material that was supposed to be faster than skin, but those have since been banned, I believe in 2010.

I think all of the suits I saw were appropriate for a member of a swim team in terms of modesty though.
 
As far as other sports uniforms, I can’t say I’ve never heard someone comment about a baseball or football player’s rear end looking nice in the pants they were wearing…

For looser/tighter clothing, I think that just goes back and forth with the times. Basketball players of course used to have super short shorts and tighter jerseys, then a time where the bigger and longer and baggier, the better! Now it seems that jerseys for basketball and football players tend to be a little tighter again.

There’s also a difference between practice gear and game uniforms - I’ve seem some stomachs out during practice pictures from some teams, and it’s not unheard of to see some football player stomachs during games either. Probably not usually intentional, but something that didn’t happen as much when the trend was to wear them bigger.
 
Such concerns are in the mind of the viewer, and have nothing to do with athletics. If you have sexualized thoughts, then consider yourself and why that is.
 
Umm…how is this immodest again?
If you want to see immodesty i suggest you start looking at figure skating or gymnastics.
 
I’m not an athlete but I exercise a lot. I like the tight UnderArmor and Nike shirts because they stay out of the way.
 
What’s the big deal? The ancient Greeks use to compete in the nude.
 
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