here here!!!! I agree completely!!!!
On Apr 15, 5:11 pm, GR Bryant <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Subject: [AZSportsRuffTuffBuffJocksStudz] How Modern Technology Ruined My
> Favorite Spectator Sport
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> How Modern Technology Ruined My Favorite Spectator Sport
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> It's called the Speedo LZR Racer. Credited with dozens of world records, it's
> not sewn but welded together, was engineered by NASA, produces 38% less
> hydrodynamic drag than a normal bathing suit, covers from ankle to neck and
> has all but ruined my favorite spectator sport since I could say "libido":
> men's swimming.
> It's only normal that performance trumps the swimmer's sex appeal and yes, in
> this case the women are wearing them too, but men's sportswear isn't all
> dictated by technology: Some players choose bigger because for the young
> American man, bigger has somehow become better. Larry Bird used to make hoops
> swoosh in tiny backside-skimming shorts. Now the men competing for gold in
> Beijing hold court in bloomers. John McEnroe served aces with his hairy
> thighs exposed, James Blake does it with fabric to his knees. And for those
> of us who spend more time horizontal on the sand than attempting to shatter
> world records, knee-grazing overly baggy board shorts are as abundant on the
> beach as the bikini.
> While looking through family albums last Thanksgiving, I came across a photo
> of my father posing proudly in a giraffe print skintight Speedo. "Mine eyes!"
> I cried as I covered the picture. "That was the style!" he insisted admiring
> his youthful physique with pride. Now if you wear a Speedo it means one of
> four things: you are a competitive swimmer, a card-carrying member of the EU,
> over sixty and unaware of the changing times, or same-sex oriented.
> The same holds true for underwear. While living in Paris I happened to see a
> lot of very heterosexual French policemen in their intimates--don't ask about
> the circumstance- -and the majority of them were wearing very tight, brightly
> colored briefs. One even had a pocket for a certain family-planning device
> right on the front. Surely if you asked a group of young American men if they
> were sporting boxers, boxer-briefs or briefs, the brief would be a rather
> underrepresented member of the underpants clan. Women, on the other hand are
> barely wearing a thing under there--I have seen underwear gracing the pages
> of the Victoria's Secret catalogue that would serve just as well as an
> eyepatch. And that Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini that
> caused such a stir in 1960? It's now being mass-produced by J. Crew.
> When did Speedos on the beach and briefs in the bedroom become banished by
> the young straight American male? "From Here to Eternity" star Burt Lancaster
> proudly displayed his physique in the tightest shortest bathing suit allowed
> on screen in 1953, Gordon Scott played Tarzan in a barely-there loin cloth
> and it's hard to conjure bodybuilding images of Arnold Schwarzenegger without
> skimpy swim trunks. Today, a young man on an American beach in a Speedo has
> the shock value of a topless woman.
> Maybe it's just a bell curve and things will go skimpy again soon. In 1916,
> park and beach governing boards declared that men's bathing suits had to have
> a modest "skirt effect," and before 1937 they could be arrested for indecent
> exposure if they bore their chests on American beaches. The silver screen in
> the '50s and '60s changed things, but now we are back to male modesty. Is the
> renaissance of the skimpy Speedo around the corner? Who knows? For now, on
> America's beaches and in her bedrooms less is more for women and more is more
> for men. It just doesn't seem fair.
> * Olympics
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> More:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ karin-tanabe/ how-modern- technology-
> rui_b_118232. html
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> Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
> Have a great day,
> Tommy
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