Have to decide for myself

 

The headline of this Daily Mail article caught my eye, and thus required further investigative effort.

Italian tennis star Camila Giorgi who reached the Wimbledon quarter finals is targeted by sexist trolls who say her raunchy lingerie snaps make her look more like a 'porn star than an athlete'

OK, first of all, let's note that the headline says the trolls are stating she looks MORE like a porn star than an athlete. That doesn't mean she looks like a porn star;   it just means that on the dial with "porn star" on the left and "athlete" on the right, the needle is leaning at least a bit left for those appraising the pictures (and being a bit sexist).

Now wait a minute.  I've written posts on this blog noting the lingerie-wearing photographs of the lovely (and now married) Caroline Wozniacki.  Did she look more like a porn star or an athlete in those pictures?  She even posed topless (with hands in the right places) and in bikinis for Sports Illustrated.  Athlete?  Porn star?   And many other female athletes have posed in swimwear or lingerie.  At what point do they look more like porn stars than athletes?   

So I guess one must appraise the photographs in which Ms. Giorgi is featured.

(tick tock, tick tock)

My own opinion:  no, despite a low level of sensuality, I don't think she looks like a porn star (based on particular body attributes and makeup), and I don't think she looks like a porn star or even a glamor model in the early stages of a shoot with the eventuality of getting nakey.   She looks like a woman wearing lingerie, and in one particular picture (shown below), she looks like an athletic woman wearing lingerie.

OK, so now, when she's doing her athletic (tennis) thing, does she look like an athlete?

I'd have to say yes, she certainly does.

More power to women who can look sexy in lingerie and also look athletic while being athletic, because of course they can do both.  And she does both well.  She's not the world's best female tennis player, but she's won tournaments and advanced several rounds in majors.  Good luck to her in whatever she does next (which I believe, in her athletic career, will be the Australian Open).