bladeplayer
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Top answer is ^^^^^^^ excellent DV excellent, i only saw this now so i read all the posts after each other and i actually laughed out loud ..
Anna Rawson
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Top answer is ^^^^^^^ excellent DV excellent, i only saw this now so i read all the posts after each other and i actually laughed out loud ..
SwingsitlikeHogan
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Well why is she (un)dressed as she is? Not usual golfing attire for ladies that I've noticed - at least not in my club and at least not on the golf course. Who knows what goes on and comes off in the ladies locker room - and I'm not actually bothered.
Maybe the picture is aimed at attracting girls to the game - but if so do we want 8-10yr old lassies (or indeed 80-100yr old lassies) thinking that this is how they should dress. So if it is not aimed at the fairer sex, then it can only be aimed at the letching sex. And guess what - we letch (oops - of course I meant they
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FairwayDodger
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Probably because we live in a patriarchal society where women are judged more on their looks than abilities and achievements.
I mean, Anna who? I had to google her, best ever finish? T10 Best ever major finish? T55.
Where's the Inbee Park and Yani Tseng adverts? You think they shouldn't be treated with respect just because some of their lesser-talented rivals choose to take their kit off?
Pin-seeker
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If Anna Rawson,Blair O'Neal & any other fit female golfer choose to do some classy photo shoot with their kit off then that's fine by me. If it offends you then don't look,it's pretty easy really.
FairwayDodger
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That wee pearl aimed at me?
I don't find either of the pics in this thread offensive. In fact, one if them I quite like, the other I find painfully sad.
I didn't even find hogan's post offensive, just annoying that someone who usually comes across as fairly intelligent could post such rubbish so I was hoping he might have a rethink.
User20205
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I do agree that it devalues womens sport to be defined by looks rather than ability. However it's prevalent in men's sport also.
Maybe not golf, but David Beckham was valued higher than his ability warranted, because he's pretty and looks good in a pant.
FairwayDodger
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More nonsense!
Pin-seeker
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Not aimed at you:thup:
Sex sells. Lots of male sports stars/actors do similar photo shoots too. You don't see Rooney doing the kind of photo shoots that Beckham does, because no one wants to see that
In the same way that I don't want to see Inbee Park in a swimsuit.
FairwayDodger
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Not aimed at you:thup:
Sex sells. Lots of male sports stars/actors do similar photo shoots too. You don't see Rooney doing the kind of photo shoots that Beckham does, because no one wants to see that
In the same way that I don't want to see Inbee Park in a swimsuit.
Indeed. My gripe here was the comment that the ladies game couldn't expect to be taken seriously while some of the players did these photo shoots... (I'm paraphrasing so forgive me if I got that wrong).
Nobody suggests Man U were not a seriously good team just cos their pin up midfielder appeared in magazines in his pants.
There is, of course, also a much more complicated and serious aspect to this sort of thing and women's role in society but even I am not mad enough to try and argue that here.
Pin-seeker
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Fair enough
BubbaP
Occasional Player of Golf
I think we all know who is making the best flapjacks though :thup:
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
My comment was simply in response to that by Fairwaydodger to my original post
AND there we are again.... sexism and discrimination is women's fault.
If women golfers accept that women are judged more on their looks than abilities and achievements then fine - AR can dress in this way and no-one will be upset. If women golfers DON'T like being so judged then AR shouldn't pander to letching blokes. But don't blame (some of) us for letching at AR in that photo. She didin't have to dress that way; it is nothing to do with golf; AR is simply using her body to attract male attention - and if our female fellow players are happy with that then fine.
For what it's worth (nothing actually) - IMO she's too skinny so not really a good role model for young girls playing the game to aspire to (and I'd say the same thing if she was a model)
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SwingsitlikeHogan
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But surely that is what will happen? Where are the adverts of Inbee Park and Yani Tseng in their undies? Quite. Inbee Park and Yani Tseng should absolutely be treated with respect for their golf, but sexy advertising around a relatively two-bit lady golfer does ladies golf absolutely no favours whatsoever.
So ladies - complain like blazes when golf manufacturers try and sell stuff on back of sexual images - it is inappropriate. Ladies golf is in an excellent position to springboard (yeugh word) off the Solheim Cup win. It doesn't need this pandering to the lowest denominator of the male of the species.
[EDIT] Ladies - correct me if I am wrong - but I don't think you are saying that it is OK for such advertising. If you are saying this are you then also saying that it is wrong for us to view it as sexual and let it frame our perception of the ladies game. Unfortunately this sort of advertising will only be viewed in a sexual way, and it will frame male peception of the ladies game and lady golfers not having similar physical attributes to those of AR.
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cookelad
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I've lost track of this one now do we like the pics or are we angry that Ms Rawson has posed for them?
Pin-seeker
Well-known member
Haha we like them :thup:
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
We blokes might - but do the ladies? And if the the ladies don't then AR should be told to put her clothes back on. IMO she isn't doing anything to raise the standing of the ladies game and have it recognised for the quality of it's golf - rather than the quality of it's tottie. Watching Michelle Wie in her mini-mini skirt, pose and preen herself throughout the Solheim Cup ended up a bit of a joke actually - and certainly did nothing to improve for my perception of the USA team.
USER1999
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Thing is, AR is never going to make much money playing golf. She is not very good, but she has other assets to exploit. Much like kornikova did with tennis.
You would never catch good players like Laura Davis doing this sort of thing
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Snelly
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Agreed it devalues women's sport but Murph makes a valid point.
That aside, I would like to bathe her in champagne. She is absolutely beautiful.
That aside, I would like to bathe her in champagne. She is absolutely beautiful.
Sweep
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Come on. Do we have such a bias towards PC that we can no longer post, publish or look at a picture of a beautiful young woman without guilt or recrimination? Please don't tell me this is demeaning to women. It just simply isn't. Lots of men, Beckham included, have traded on their looks for years. Good looking people, mainly women it should be said, use their looks to their advantage every single day. This is a fine example, or was the man holding a gun to Ms. Rawson's head airbrushed out? This kind of thing has gone on since the birth of the human race and will go on until we die. It's a fact of life. Alternatively, we could go back to Victorian principles. Cover up that piano leg. Guess what, I saw an ankle today! Phoar!
