The European Broadcasting Union in partnership with European Athletics introduces new guidelines to prevent women athletes from being sexualized through camera angles that capture revealing views and slow-motion replays that offer little technical or storytelling value
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On the one hand I get it but some of these just feel like ādonāt zoom in everā. If we can zoom in on a male athletes thighs, it shouldnāt be a big deal to show women athletes thighs. The bigger issue is the consistent sexualization of womenās bodies as opposed to what weāre wearing or what the camera angles are.
Like the bottom-right picture in the 2 slide. Thereās nothing inherently sexual about that angle. Itās just torso and legs.
What do the men wear? Can women not wear those bottoms too?
Itās so sad that these had to be introduced in the first place
Or just let them wear normal clothes. The guys donāt all wear super skimpy outfits? Why canāt women choose too?
Good! We should be watching the athletic achievements of the competitors, not looking at closeups of their bodies. There is no good reason to basically upskirt an athlete.
Are they going to stop doing close-ups on men too?
How is a women’s upper leg any more “sexual” than a man’s leg?
Men also have genitals located in their upper leg region…???
Gotta love where Europeans’ priorities are.
Female athletes of every sport need to wear the same uniforms/outfits as male athletes of the same sport. I donāt understand why male athletes of one sport wear knee-length/thigh-length shorts & shirts but female athletes of the same sport & country basically wear super skimpy underwear. It makes no sense to me. And itās worse because in so many of these videos Iāve watched, the female athletes are literally teenage girls.
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Now stop making the women volleyball players wear bikinis whether they want to or not š«
It’s a step in the right direction, but you know damn well that one video/photographer’s gonna try to be slick and be all “it’s not my fault her tits were exposed and in the view!” *sigh*
Also why not introduce permitted clothing? I know the fitted/less wear does appeal to those who want to move efficiently without fabrics getting in the way or risk being uncomfy, but what about for those who can wear something longer like a bit above the knees without breaking the rules/cheating/injuries or being uncomfortable.
as much as i want to praise this, I canāt help be disappointed that we have to get to this point because people canāt just treat women without sexualising something that isnāt even remotely sexual.
BRING BACK NAKED WRESTLING
why are female athletes forced to wear short clothes compared to their male peers to begin with ? I’ve noticed it in many sports and there are no performance-related reason for it
I hate that this has to be a thing but glad theyāre setting guidelines. We need them.Ā
This is great but likeā¦have we considered also allowing simply allowing them to wear shorts???
You can’t prevent this stuff if someone is watching for one specific reason, they will find a way to sexualize athletes unfortunately but for us normal viewers purposefully showing less of their achievement is diminishing the quality of watching when you can’t see how close someone was to making it or not.
Some of these are needed like when athletes are stretching, there is no point in looking at their backsides with zoom
Incels donāt like this
So..no more of this? To be fair, the cameraman was just capturing what she was doing.
This is like the 20th time I have seen this on Reddit in the past few days.
I’d love to hear or see the difference of how a female camera person would capture these images and videos. This is why we need diversity.
So, I’ve looked at the images and some of these supposedly unwanted angles and views make sense, but others seem completely acceptable.
This is the first post Iāve seen about it where all the replies are ābut you donāt understand, ***this*** specific ass shot is extremely important11!1!ā
1. Is good that this is introduced because I think this is a relatively new phenomenon driven by p*rn brains and desire for raitings cause i cannot remember being a child (I am 30) and seeing this angles on tv. Also then I was a child we had only a few channels on tv so everything was very professional (I am from Moldova).
2. Clothes- a lot of clothes give sport people advantage. If today somebody made a fabric and cut that give you better results but you must wear this as a sack everyone tomorrow would be in sacks. I remember reading about men trying nailon leggings for fun and skate. Guy actually beat the world record cause of fabric and all team started to wear leggings this is how transformed the sport uniforms because before they would wear linen and cotton.
Can we let them wear shorts while we’re at it? Men aren’t competing in their whitey-tighties
Not every close up is a revealing angle. A lot of the pole vault one often shows how close the body was to the bar and seem legit. This is just a sample but it makes no sense. They are comparing shots from two different moments. Athlete before the jump, athlete as they jump. I hope they have a much more robust and detailed guidelines that genuinelyĀ show what you show in place of similar shots at similar actions.Ā
I’m glad, but it’s only 2026 that we are even dealing with this? Especially when most cameramen are males, and women’s sport uniforms are small and tight even when it serves no athletic purpose
Well done to the EBU and European Athletics for finally naming a reoccurring issue and offering better guidelines. The sexualisation of women (and girls) in sports is a real thing, and while we’ve come a long way in a number of sports, there is always room for improvement, and this is a step in the right direction.