Olympics: Gender equality, uniform choice

[Neoma]

LONDON, July 27 (UPI) -- Female athletes at the London Olympics have the right to choose skirts or shorts at the first Games in which both genders will compete in all events.

Initial attempts to force female boxers and badminton players into skirts didn't go over well with the ladies, who will now be given their choice of uniform, The Washington Post reported Friday.

The Amateur International Boxing Association proposed the female skirt mandate to help TV viewers identify the separate genders, but the athletes said they believe there are plenty of other assets that set them apart.

"I really didn't understand that," boxer Claressa Shields, 17, of Flint, Mich., told the Post. "It was to help separate the men from the women. But we got different names! Women got breasts! We got butts! Can't you tell which one is who?"

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[obamanut2012]

1. Female boxers were initally ordered to wear skirts

WTF WTF WTF

They are still being suggested by many countries, and some countries are making their female boxers do so.

Do not even get me started.

[justiceischeap]

2. I'll admit we were watching some weightlifting competition at work

on Monday (dead lift stuff) and I was wondering why they were mixing men and women. You have no idea how embarrassed I was when one of my co-workers told me they were ALL women. Anyway, I noticed yesterday when they had the women's field hockey competition on that their clothes were sparser than the men's field hockey team uniforms. It wasn't like the women were naked or anything but the uniforms are tighter, the tops were sleeveless, the skirts were formfitting... they looked liked field hockey player's going for sex appeal.

Heck when you look at baseball compared to softball and the uniforms, women often wear formfitting shorts, that don't protect the legs from "road rash" when sliding but the guys wear long pants when playing. Almost any women's team sport the uniforms are "briefer" than men's and tighter.

[4th law of robotics]

3. How about a uni-gender kilt

seems like that would offer the greatest range of motion.