Underwear at Wimbledon

Who on earth legislates about underwear especially women's underwear? There's a word for that obsession. 

Wow! Women tennis players are allowed to wear non-white lower-half underwear at Wimbledon. I'm stoked 😁🤣. It was a stupid rule to start with! 🤦Azarenka calls it a thoughtful decision. So now women are supposed to be grateful that Wimbledon officials are no longer checking the colour of their knickers?! 

Garments that are the norm elsewhere around the world (colourful or white) at every tournament are somehow suddenly in need of strict regulation and judged wrong or more special simply because it's Wimbledon. 🤯🤷

Surely a huge percentage of professional women tennis players are on the pill which merely gives you a fake period which is hardly noticeable anyway. Or there's something called a tampon which can cause TSS but since all-whites is only a Wimbledon issue it's doubtful you'll be affected that quickly. Besides you can take it out straight after the match. 

Having said all that, I'm not in favour of the all-white rule in any form. It's drab. We want colour, flamboyance, excitement not some sanitising all-whites. It's sport not a hospital. Even surgeons, doctors and nurses wear more colourful scrubs uniforms.

And what about the bra? Is that still suffering from the all-whites issue? Or is it only a period thing? Is all this period talk just a way of emphasizing biological differences rather than genuine concerns about women's issue with white underwear during periods. Is the implicit argument: Women assigned female at birth have periods. Others don't so aren't women. 

However, this is an over-simplification. There are various medical reasons why someone assigned female at birth may not have periods and it indirectly impacts on transwomen. And just when there's so much anti trans rhetoric is this why it's such a pressing issue now? And just when companies are trying to find more non-binary and trans inclusive language in their advertising and product labelling, such as saying 'people who have periods' as opposed to 'women's periods' or saying 'pregnant people' instead of 'pregnant women'. 

Nevertheless, I'm still pleased that Wimbledon has finally got rid of the ridiculous rule that shouldn't have been there in the first place. 🗑️ Now I'd just like them to wear cycling shorts if they insist on wearing tennis skirts! What's wrong with wearing shorts? On the one hand, it's argued that girls and women feel terribly body self-conscious while playing sports, yet at the same time, are happy to wear flappy, short skirts that reveal all as they serve, run around or fall over on court! Somehow that's OK, even though photographers have been sexualising female tennis players' feminine and revealing outfits, ever since Anna Kournikova. Is that because it reinforces gender stereotypes and endorses being gender conforming?