A few weeks ago, during the Olympics, I just couldn’t believe the amount of infantile media coverage (no pun intended) about the women's beach volleyball team’s choice of attire. I finally had enough after one more story about it on NPR and wrote them the letter that follows. They actually read an edited version of it in their “letters” segment!
Dear ATC,
Why Is America all hung up about the use of bikinis in the women’s beach volleyball competition? I grew up in Brazil, where the bikini is a national uniform and going to the beach the national pastime; bikinis are truly the most comfortable attire for sandy beaches. Why does this country have to be so sophomoric about their, in this case, practical use. Seriously, this country does nothing but sell sex and sexual innuendo in all shapes and forms through all types of media all the time; and now the public is getting giggly and hung up about athletes wearing bikinis for practical reasons!? There is not one night that I can’t find a lap dancer in some show or another on prime-time television; why is nobody giggling about that... Gimme a break, grow up America!
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