The former US 5000m champion believes that elite sports are guilty of erasing women’s bodies, leading to unnecessary problems for competitors
f males got boobs during puberty there would be a free sports bra in every locker and we wouldn’t even be having this conversation,” says Lauren Fleshman, laughing but not joking. “When teams issue uniforms a sports bra should be part of that uniform.”
“As soon as girls start developing breasts, any discussion in our culture is sexual,” Fleshman says. “We should be able to talk about breasts in the context of movement the same way we talk about elbows and knees. It’s part of our body and as our bodies are developing the physics of our movement changes. There is almost a cultural celebration of a girl getting her first regular bra and it is time we had a similar rite of passage for the sports bra. It can be normalized before it gets awkward.
High on Fleshman’s list for change is dumping the idea that men and women should be treated the same, a concept that upends some central themes in equality debates.
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