Are bun huggers dead?

Professional women's sports aren't about performance, since an analogous male athlete will always have an objectively stronger performance.

Therefore, professional women's sports are just about how attractive the athletes are.

Help!!!!

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More bun hugger pictures!

Robert Paulson wrote:

staying alive wrote:

I hope not!!

http://25.media.tumblr.com/e287cc33756adcd56851ba50baa6b1d7/tumblr_mm2cmdxS8Y1ruoopco1_500.jpg

You make a good point to which I respond:

http://www.letsrun.com/photos/2010/newyorkcitymarathon/imagepages/image22.php

Is that a male or a female?

Distractions wrote:

Bigger than Ben Johnson wrote:

Has there ever been a 1500m runner like Ingvill Bovim?

http://media.kitsapsun.com/media/img/photos/2011/09/01/media_3379ff072b3948e283838b4e1d23870b_t607.jpg

Jesus, what I wouldn't do...

I get her first!

Cate wrote:

I blame athletics directors wanting to avoid conflicts with a minority of parents who think the buns are too revealing. Most girls love them.

What? NOBODY on my hs team wanted them when our (50-year-old male) coach ordered them.

I refused to wear them and went so far as to run on JV because our varsity team had to wear the uniform proscribed by the coach. Which was actually kind of awesome as I was the fastest girl in our district by about a minute in the 3200 so of course the local paper ran a story on why I wasn't running varsity in districts, and they interviewed the other girls on me team and in our district. The consensus was that nobody wanted to wear them, so it seemed to be a bunch of 50-year-old male coaches and ADs forcing teenage girls to wear less than what they were comfortable with. The team got to wear regular racing shorts after that.

I'll wear the bun-huggers when guys wear speedos. There is zero functional reason for them.

I've avoided this thread until today. Holy Jesus.

You have to be really lean to pull off the buns look. I see 19 min 5k girls try to do it locally in road races and it is not a pretty picture when they go out to hard ahead of you and their backside gets caught by sunlight. If they could see in HD what it looked like I'm sure next race that would not be their uniform of choice . (These are races I would prob run 17s)

I wore buns for 1 Xc season in college and then the first steeple I tried in track freshman year. Never again. As soon as I hit a lap with some barriers it became a full wedgie and completely distracting and uncomfortable. I picked the wedgie about 3x and my coach yelled at me to stop. Still ran a national meet qualifying time but by next race I dropped another 30 seconds and didn't have to pull my buns out of my a$s.

Boy shorts = way more flattering unless you are Shalane Flanagan fit. My 2 cents

NOTHING beats the nylon tricot split running short

I love reading your posts. Very titillating You can make alot of money writing about buns like you do. Please tell us more about your personal experiences with bun huggers.

Buns dead for me wrote:

(These are races I would prob run 17s)

A 17 second 5k is something to be proud of.

Buns dead for me wrote:

I wore buns for 1 Xc season in college and then the first steeple I tried in track freshman year. Never again. As soon as I hit a lap with some barriers it became a full wedgie and completely distracting and uncomfortable. I picked the wedgie about 3x and my coach yelled at me to stop. Still ran a national meet qualifying time but by next race I dropped another 30 seconds and didn't have to pull my buns out of my a$s.

Boy shorts = way more flattering unless you are Shalane Flanagan fit. My 2 cents

If you get wedgies, either your buns are too big or they're getting old and the Spandex is losing its shape. Your coach should have advised ordering a size too small and replacing them periodically.

As for boy shorts being more flattering, no way! They accentuate the hips and butt cheeks and also raise questions about why the wearer isn't in buns (personal grooming issues maybe?)

I'm shocked you did this. What reason would you have for not wearing buns? You surely swim, which entails wearing attire that covers less and is more form fitting. And thousands if not millions of women and girls have taken part in many sports in huggers or spankies for many years. When my mom was in college and university in the 1980s they were mandatory for pretty much all sports, including indoor volleyball. Nobody thought anything of it as they were universal and there was no alternative.

Can someone explain to me why distance runners - both male and female - don't race in the same kind of short tights that male sprinters [and increasing numbers of male mid-d guys] race in?

Short tights are comfortable, they look fine and they don't flop around the way regular shorts do.

Swimming is a much, much different activity than running and doesn't involve all of the "jiggling" that running does. (And no, I'm not fat. If any of you were at the NYC marathon last weekend, just look at most of the pros who were both very skinny and very jiggly...)

Bottom line is I'm just not comfortable in them. Does there need to be another reason? I find it absolutely incredible that people want to force teenage girls to wear less than what they're comfortable wearing when there is a perfectly reasonable alternative. I mean, they don't call them racing shorts for nothing; they're meant to be raced in. It's not like I was advocating running in a burqa or something.

So I'll throw the question back at you: what reason would you have for WANTING me to wear buns?

And again, guys aren't only wearing their underwear to race in, so why has that become the standard for women? I'm totally not one of those raging feminists (I'm actually pretty girly) but it's a complete double standard, and one I'm not going to endorse.

Jiggling as you call it should not be a problem if you wear buns that are not too big and contain some Spandex. Plus, who cares if you jiggle a little? It's a race meet, not a beauty contest.

Yes shorts are an alternative, but what style? Baggy shorts are not form fitting so not the best for performance due to the drag factor. And if you think bun huggers are unflattering, check out how bad most girls look in form fitting boy shorts.

You asked why I and many other girls and women want to wear buns. Three reasons:

1. They're the best for performance. Stand near the finish line at most races and you'll see most of the placed runners are in huggers whereas those last to finish are in shorts, or even tights/pants. Buns are the ultimate performance attire, being form fitting and leaving plenty of exposed skin that enables your body to disperse heat, so they help performance. Sometimes I do practise runs in shorts or sweats; I'm always slower than when I strip down to my buns

2. Provided they're a good fit and the Spandex is in good condition zero change of wedgies, riding up, slipping down, camel toe or any of the other problems that make some other sorts of shorts uncomfortable or distract the runner's attention

3. They project an image that says the wearer is a serious athlete, wearing the kit that's most practical for the task at hand, while also being feminine and flattering to the body.

You're right that guys don't run in their underwear. There's a good reason for this, they have stuff that really would jiggle, big time. My boyfriend once got groin strain from running with support that didn't fit quite right. It put him out of action for a couple of weeks (and not just as a runner...).

Unlike you, I'm proud to call myself a feminist. For me this means we should have similar rights and respect to the guys. It doesn't mean we have to be the same as them. On the contrary, I think it's demeaning to women to try to push us down that route. So when I race I would prefer to wear a garment associated purely with female runners, namely bun huggers. The alternative, boy shorts, are called boy shorts for a reason...

another average american wrote:

what reason would you have for WANTING me to wear buns?

They look better. They do what many wish they could do. To hug buns. Some day I want to become a bun hugger.

No, I'm fine if you want to wear them; just don't make me wear them! I asked why you wanted ME to wear them, not why you wore them! The point is that they shouldn't be forced on people who don't want to wear them.

Everything that you mentioned would also apply to guys. We have stuff that jiggles too, on top, but that doesn't prevent women from racing in bras. If the best way to run fast is in bun-huggers as you suggest (and I think several female Olympic gold medalists would disagree with you) then there are plenty of ways guys could come up with to get support sufficient for wearing speedos. If the "drag factor" is such an issue, they could certainly at least do away with all the fabric in shorts that isn't providing support, so they'd have the exposure of speedos. No takers?

The fact is there are so many other variables that influence performance much, much, much more than wearing bra+buns vs. singlet+shorts. And in fact, if I'm uncomfortable with what I'm wearing, it will be a detriment to my performance.

You say we should have similar rights as guys, but doesn't that include wearing whatever uniform we want? And not being disrespected for choosing to wear the same thing as them? If it's not a beauty contest, why can't I wear what I want? What's happening is that women, not men, are being forced to wear less than what they want, and that's the very definition of anti-feminism.

Oh, and boy shorts are not the only alternative. I race in racing shorts. Wouldn't wear "boy shorts" to race in either.

Everyone should get to race in whatever racing attire they want.