These newswire photos from the Australian Open help create a culture that undercuts women athletes and endangers women more broadly.
via Reading The Pictures: https://www.readingthepictures.org/2020/01/calling-out-tennis-upskirt-photos/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Bagnewsnotes+%28Reading+The+Pictures%29
The Reuters coverage of this year’s Australian Open tennis tournament features all the staples of the genre: feats of athletic prowess, emotional highs and lows, artistic stills, and humorous outtakes. It also includes several examples of a shot that needs to be scrapped from the genre: the athletic upskirt.