I like thick-thighed women in baggy shorts
Dear New York Times article on female athletes and unconventional standards of beauty:
You had me at "Amazonian wonders like the Williams sisters, statuesque goddesses like Maria Sharapova, Misty May Treanor and Kerri Walsh, sinewy running machines like Paula Radcliffe or thick-thighed soccer dynamos like Mia Hamm."
(Mmmm, thick-thighed dynamos.)
But then you lost me at "Then [model casting agent James Scully] came across a picture of Ms. Griner without her baggy basketball shorts and jersey and realized, he said, 'She’s a conventionally pretty girl'..."
(So wait... unconventional beauty is okay because when you take women out of those nasty sports uniforms they're still pretty? Methinks you just undermined your point.)
You had me at "Amazonian wonders like the Williams sisters, statuesque goddesses like Maria Sharapova, Misty May Treanor and Kerri Walsh, sinewy running machines like Paula Radcliffe or thick-thighed soccer dynamos like Mia Hamm."
(Mmmm, thick-thighed dynamos.)
But then you lost me at "Then [model casting agent James Scully] came across a picture of Ms. Griner without her baggy basketball shorts and jersey and realized, he said, 'She’s a conventionally pretty girl'..."
(So wait... unconventional beauty is okay because when you take women out of those nasty sports uniforms they're still pretty? Methinks you just undermined your point.)