I opened my inbox this morning to get this article staring right back at me:

Table tennis is desperate to attract more viewers and some in the sport believe a simple enough solution exists: get the women to wear skirts and shirts with “curves”.</i> ... <i>We are trying to push the players to use skirts and also nicer shirts, not the shirts that are made for men, but ones with more curves,” International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) vice president Claude Bergeret said.

First off, what exactly are 'curves'?  Is it against decorum to just come out and say 'tits and ass'?

So anyone who actually looks at the Internet has seen the coverage on how women's teams have been competing in far more revealing utfits than the men's, though at least there they try to come up with some sort of bullshit excuse about 'freedom of movement' of 'improved performance'.  None of those excuses from the ITTF!  Just plain, unadulterated, 'people will only watch that sport you ladies excel in if you show a little more skin'.

What are the men's teams to do, anyway?  Is there really that huge of a gap in ratings between men's and women's ping pong.  Maybe we can get a little flash of six-pack from the guys between serves!

Sigh.

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