When Olympian Tess Howard put on her new uniform for Great Britain’s women’s field hockey team in 2021, she felt something she hadn’t expected at the height of her athletic career: embarrassment.

  • Demdaru@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    Bloody hell I thought it was a matter of “Girl ain’t wanna play with fit clothing” but no. For anyone too lazy to read that, clothes were literally constricting their movement and restricting breathing.

    Other than that the “first woman to win in shorts” people talk about is about skort vs shorts which…I don’t get. Functionally the same, it seems, so where’s the problem in it?

    But also all in all can we just go unisex on this shit, without crushing peoples organs?

    Also girls feel overly sexualised. Well, we like to look at eye candy in sports, regardless of sex…but again, can we go unisex in clothing, with non-crushing design? Would solve a lot of problems.