At last Guy Trebay notes something about the Olympics that not nearly enough people are talking about: These athletes have ridiculously exquisite bodies. Finally. Someone came out and said it. We knew we weren't the only ones who enjoy ogling pictures like this one of our relay swim team just as much as we like seeing team USA win gold medals. Trebay writes in the New York Times:
[F]or days and nights in the privacy of one’s living room, and without once resorting to XTube, a viewer is permitted and even encouraged to ogle an ongoing parade of muscled and lithe and rippling and toned and occasionally highly perplexing bodies, wearing little more than the evidence of our mutating cultural ideals.
Trebay goes on to note that like clothes change over time, physical ideals change over time, too. "[I]t seems clear that few events offer a richer opportunity to see how physical beauty is currently constructed than the Beijing Games," he remarks. Why, we couldn't agree more. So, shall we take a look at what's in style for physical beauty these days as seen at these Olympic Games? Perhaps in a fashion yearbook?
[F]or days and nights in the privacy of one’s living room, and without once resorting to XTube, a viewer is permitted and even encouraged to ogle an ongoing parade of muscled and lithe and rippling and toned and occasionally highly perplexing bodies, wearing little more than the evidence of our mutating cultural ideals.
Trebay goes on to note that like clothes change over time, physical ideals change over time, too. "[I]t seems clear that few events offer a richer opportunity to see how physical beauty is currently constructed than the Beijing Games," he remarks. Why, we couldn't agree more. So, shall we take a look at what's in style for physical beauty these days as seen at these Olympic Games? Perhaps in a fashion yearbook?
