Listening to men’s comments about women can quickly be uplifting, in general. In the average weight room, or worse when it comes to sports commentators judging the performance of female athletes on television, it’s even more revolting. Like a magnifying mirror, exercise says a lot about women’s relationship with sport, as well as men’s relationship with women who practice it. And this crystallizes much of the sexism that governs our patriarchal societies, as illustrated by the documentary All muscular by Camille Juza broadcast by Arte.
Available in 4 episodes of 15 minutes each on Arte.tv, or in a 58-minute video on YouTube, this documentary is full of skills and testimonies. Speakers include crossfitter and content creator Justine Becattini aka Juju Fitcats, former footballer Nicole Abar, historian Cécile Ottogalli-Mazzacavallo, sociologists Catherine Louveau and Béatrice Barbusse, socio-historian Anaïs Bohuon and philosopher Camille Froidevaux.
The first part, ” Obstacle course Shows how women have long been prevented, forbidden, from practicing sport as such, under various pretexts. After this context historicalthe second part, other sociological” Released, released », Questions the gender stereotypes that regulate the distribution of different sports: to women, disciplines considered graceful and aesthetic such as dance; to men martial arts, for example. Then comes the third part, Undress »On the sexism of the clothes themselves: for the same sporting discipline, women’s uniforms are much less covering than men’s, without reason for performance, but to serve their bodies as a spectacle for men who enjoy scrutinizing, criticizing, and hypersexualizing them . And in case we haven’t rebelled enough yet, here comes the fourth and final part, ” It is a world for men », He questions sexism in sport from the point of view economicwhich shows that women earn less, are less sponsored and less advertised than men.
Front page photo credit: Arte / Haut et court.
Source: Madmoizelle
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