Athletic Excellence Competes With Raunch Culture at Women's World Cup
Submitted on July 18, 2011
By Dave Zirin - July 17, 2011
...“[R]aunch culture” is when women athletes buy into the idea that it’s somehow empowering to display their naked bodies for men’s magazines...They claim that they are not only promoting their sport but also proving to the world that their attractiveness and (straight) sexuality is not to be questioned...“[W]e want to disprove the cliché that all female footballers are butch.”
