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#1 18-07-12 01:41:28

viva
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eye candy

ESPN Olympian Bodies 2012

Inspiring and beautiful, and I really do love the way the women athletes have been photographed - whether its powerful or soft, their poses and the way they're portrayed seem equivalent to the male athletes, rather than overtly sexualized.

I like seeing athlete's bodies photographed as a thing of beauty - this is one case in which objectification is not necessarily an evil. These people have worked their bodies incredibly hard to make them the most efficient in their classAnd it is amazing to see those bodies, the results of their human willpower, like it is amazing to see any truly phenomenal work of craft and effort.

I enjoy appreciating a photograph of a human's body without the feeling that the picture wants me to know that if I just buy the right stuff and wear the right clothes and exercise 3 times a week I can look like that, and why don't I already?

When it comes to Olympic athletes, our best and strongest, I will never look like that. These pictures don't ask me to, or challenge me to. They allow me to appreciate. It would be like feeling threatened by a picture of a beautiful mountain... you kind of either are a mountain or you're not.

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#2 19-07-12 00:49:28

blissed
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Re: eye candy

Wow! at the picture of the girl with prosthetic legs and the underwater pic, and I know why they've done it but I'm sure there's more than one glimpse of penis that's been photoshopped away smile Some wonderfull pics and bodies.

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#3 19-07-12 02:55:45

Nalgene
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Re: eye candy

Thanks for the suggestion.  I didn't quite understand how one could not look at the bodies of Olympians and feel the need to grab a powerbar. 

At first, the pictures seemed leading to me…kind of daring you to put yourself in the subject’s position. (which may just be a function of my programming).  After I read a few of the athlete’s quotes I kinda stopped comparing biceps and started to see the stories underneath.  Ringworm, too tall, stretched out, bad abs…I was impressed by the idea that the piece was a collection of people who have spent time doing what they love and this is what they look like, good or bad, as a result. 

I actually felt a certain kinship, though there is no one looking for my autograph just now…isn’t that what any of us are…a collection of our favorite habits/hobbies/drives?

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