female athletes

[OakLeaf]

They are beautiful and powerful women, no question, and I suppose it's nice to see the slideshow slightly pushing the boundaries of what's an "acceptable" appearance for women. But until they start featuring Olympic athletes like (my local hero) Holley Mangold or Jillian Camarena, I'll still be sad about the strictures that our culture puts on women's bodies. (I realized after the fact that the photos I chose don't show their beautiful, powerful legs, which are in proportion with the rest of their bodies.)





I don't think things have changed much, if at all, since the news of Tonya Harding's crimes broke, and the worst thing the editorial cartoonists could do was to draw caricatures of her with heavy thighs.