Understandably by Bill Murphy Jr.

Understandably by Bill Murphy Jr.

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Oh my God, what is she wearing?

Oh my God, what is she wearing?

Double standards, people who strive for gold, and people who just get old. Also, 7 other things worth your... time!

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Elisabeth Seitz has been in the Olympics three times, but this is probably the first you’ve heard of her—and not (directly anyway) for her performance as a member of the German women’s gymnastics team.

Instead, she and her teammates—Pauline Schäfer, Sarah Voss, and Kim Bui—made headlines for what they wore during their latest competition, specifically: “statement-making, full-length unitards” designed to “bring more attention to sexism in their sport.”

“We wanted to show that every woman, everybody, should decide what to wear,” Sietz told Reuters.

Welcome to the Olympics in a time of awakening—and social media—during which the discrepancies between men’s and women’s sports attire, and the ham-handed shaming attempts both by individuals and organizations, become the shots (about shorts) heard around the world.

Let’s go to the videotape. (Sorry, GenX guy runs this thing):

There’s Paralympian Olivia Breen, a world-class sprinter and long-jumper who has cerebral palsy, who makes the rest of us…

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