{"id":9588,"date":"2018-08-29T18:20:26","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T22:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=9588"},"modified":"2021-12-23T19:55:12","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T00:55:12","slug":"alize-cornet-sports-bras-not-big-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2018\/08\/29\/alize-cornet-sports-bras-not-big-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"On Alize Cornet And Why Sports Bras Are Not A Big Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Can we get over the women\u2019s bodies thing?<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=N4zcvg0Q23I\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alize Cornet realized her shirt was on backwards and needed to change it around.<\/a> It\u2019s happened to all of us. Every. Single. One. It happened to me last week on the way to the gym. I fixed it in the car. <i>Nobody cares<\/i>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Except chair umpire Christian Rask, who gave Cornet a code violation warning.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Now the tennis powers are parsing silly rules, the letter of the law, whose rule it is\u2026 and the US Open says it regrets that she was given a warning at all.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Cornet made the right decision. Rather than inconvenience her opponent by leaving the court, she did a quick turnaround. It was the opposite of disrespetful\u2014 it was\u00a0<i>considerate.<\/i><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>There is a modicum of satisfaction that I get out of this incident. Cornet is from France, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/08\/27\/tennis\/serena-williams-catsuit-ban-racism-misogyny\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">it was the French Open that tsk-tsk\u2019d Serena Williams last week for the bodysuit she wore at Roland Garros this year<\/a>. Williams&#8217; outfit was both stylish for a post-pregnancy look and functional in that it improved her circulation, which she needed after struggling with life-threatening blot clots. Now that same country, which has so much national pride, will naturally want to rush to Cornet\u2019s defense\u2014 only to realize it\u2019s being hypocritical. That makes me smile a little.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But can we get over it please?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Enough.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h3>Reasons we need to get over it:<\/h3>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>1. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sicovers.com\/brandi-chastain-of-the-usa-1999-july-19\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brandi Chastain celebrated World Cup glory by taking off her top to reveal a sports bra in 1999, and we loved it<\/a>. We applauded and put her on the cover Sports Illustrated. Girl power. Yaaay. Been there, done that. Women wear sports bras, and it\u2019s absolutely tasteful, appropriate, and FINE.<\/div>\n<p><a id=\"pwTOaU1NRkVU3WenlQfoGg\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/650788240\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'pwTOaU1NRkVU3WenlQfoGg',sig:'HSlLdHOQ_FL2bqYo0c8hfEb9eqGum7d9cbjUyRwXcTA=',w:'397px',h:'594px',items:'650788240',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<div>2. \u00a0The USTA promotes its classy athletes\u2014 as it should\u2014 by sending out photos and articles of female tennis players in sexy dresses, short tennis skirts, and covered in various stages of sweat. It\u2019s called being a woman in 2018. Check Instagram much? There are entire pages dedicated to the female tennis form in and out of tennis-wear. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/life-style\/life\/1010262\/eugenie-bouchard-news-style-latest-sexy-tennis-us-open-Instagram\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Genie Bouchard takes off her shirt with a sports bra underneath and squeezes out the sweat on a practice court at the US Open<\/a>. Caroline Woznicacki poses in nothing but body paint. It\u2019s all gorgeous. It\u2019s wonderful. But most of all, it\u2019s <i>everywhere<\/i>. So why do we suddenly get an extreme bout of prudishness over the sight of a modest sports bra? It doesn\u2019t make any sense. It\u2019s not logical.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>3. \u00a0Big reason right here: \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=male+tennis+players+shirtless&amp;safe=off&amp;tbm=isch&amp;tbo=u&amp;source=univ&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjzuYW1oZPdAhWEuVkKHdLFDmQQsAR6BAgDEAE&amp;biw=2560&amp;bih=1263\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The men take off their shirts<\/a>. (You knew that was coming.) I have seen probably every man in the Top 100 without a shirt on. The horror. Seriously? Have any of them been warned, fined, slapped on the wrist? No. They\u2019re encouraged to take those sweaty shirts off and throw them into the crowd.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>4. \u00a0A sports bra is much like a shorter top. Do a Google search for \u201csports bra.\u201d Are sports bras really that revealing these days? What\u2019s the big difference between a crop top and a sports bra\u2014 the technicality of one being a racerback? Sports bras are not generally smutty. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jacobellis_v._Ohio\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">In a famous First Amendment case, US Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart once said he could not define pornography<\/a>, but &#8220;I know it when I see it.\u201d Well I can guarantee you a sports bra <i>is not it<\/i>. I\u2019m sure Justice Stewart would agree, god rest his soul.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>5. \u00a0We need to accept that women have breasts. Yes I wrote that, take a deep breath and read it again. We need to accept that women have breasts and be ok with it. Since the dawn of mammalian life, breasts have sustained human and animal populations. They\u2019re a big reason we\u2019re still here. Time to stop acting like breasts are shameful.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Is there anyone on this planet other than that umpire who\u2019s mad that Alize Cornet took her shirt off?<\/div>\n<div>I will now ask the chirping crickets to please get over it.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can we get over the women\u2019s bodies thing? Alize Cornet realized her shirt was on backwards and needed to change it around. It\u2019s happened to all of us. Every. Single. One. It happened to me last week on the way to the gym. I fixed it in the car. Nobody cares. 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