Actually you missed my point entirely. Women will ALWAYS have to worry about it as long as in their actions they cater to the base (though natural) sexual nature of men. If you dress like a prostitute, do not in the next sentence ask for respect. And that’s the message these women athletes (the ones that wear bikinis to a track and field meet) send…see me as an object first, an athlete second. And if you think dressing in a tiny bikini ISN’T objectifying women then you’re lying to yourself. That’s why strippers wear that typeof clothes, to arouse men. (And btw, there’s nothing wrong with that…in the context of a strip club.)
This argument really could be applied to any group. Take MLK. What would your advice to him have been if at every rally he spoke to he wore an outrageous blue wig, a big red clown nose, and huge floppy white shoes, i.e. he dressed like Bozo the clown? You’d say dude, if you want to be taken seriously, don’t dress like that. (And some of the posters here would reply - hey, he can wear whatever he likes. I don’t judge people that way. ...And you’d be lying to yourself, just like here and now.)
Please show the audience here pictures of women in bikinis competing in a high school or college track and field event. And why do you objectify men's sexual nature as "base"? What's the problem with heterosexual males being naturally drawn to women? This concept sounds straight out of a Bronze Age text we all know and love. Also, Sect. 3 Article 1 of the official NCAA rules for uniforms require a competitor's top to fall below the waistband of the shorts and the shorts must be of a length to clearly show the competitor's number. Nothing said about a bikini or prostitutes competing in the long jump. In fact the only bikini clad women are those who play beach volleyball, once again so what? If an athlete wants to show off her body on the beach, what's the harm? Man, don't ever visit a nude beach in Europe or the Caribbean; you might have a stroke. And what does MLK wearing a blue wig have to do with treating him as a sex object? That analogy doesn't fly in this case. What does athletic prowess and a toned body have to do with the Civil Rights movement?
Cap't Jack
Wow, your lack of understanding is so incredible. And you're such a liar too. Sexual nature is base, as in primal, primitive. Nothing wrong with that, but compared to say an appreciation of art, music, friendship, humans as humans, etc it IS base. And a women showing off her body on the beach is wonderful...UNLESS she's a women who also wants to be respected as an athlete first, female sexual being second. And again, it has nothing to do with being naked. It's all in the context. And OMG you totally missed the point about MLK. Had nothing to do with sex, it was being taken seriously depending on how one presents oneself. If he dressed like a clown no one would take him seriously. BUT half the posted here would seriously argue "gee what's wrong with dressing like a clown, I like clowns". Again...context!
AND HERE'S AN EXAMPLE: http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/lapt1x01xss/2008+Olympic+Team+Trials+Track+Field+Day+6/dqhDp8PY1VN/Tiffany+McWilliams
And that's a pretty timid example. Just google Women's Track and Field, then do Images. Or google with images: Susen Tiedtke