old guy who remembers differen wrote:
So I've got a question: Why are elite female runners allowed to do something that, as far as I know, male runners aren't allowed to do: wear tiny skinny tops that do little more than wrap the breast-area, and that show everything from the bottom of the breast bone to the (shaved) place just below the navel?
Why do so few competitive female runners wear singlets, or full-length tops?
And why don't male runners do the same thing female runners do--apart from the obvious fact that it's incredibly gay?
If an elite male runner were so inclined, could he, too, wear a breast-wrap--well, a pec wrap--and show navel?
I'm assuming that female runners show navel because breast-wraps are both cooler and more aerodynamic than singlets. If that's true, and if male runners are, in fact, not allowed to wear such quarter-length upper garb, then female runners are being given a clear advantage, and an unfair one.
Please discuss. I'm sure I'm missing something here. I just don't get it--but I'm willing to learn.
I'm thinking most guys would watch or participate in the race with admiration of the ladies and if they were paying attention to their clothing at all it would be more in the "DAYUM" kind of way.
But....to each his own.