Europe would like you to stop ogling female athletes

Here in the U.K., we recently learned that security cameras are racist. But the seething hatred lurking behind seemingly neutral video technology does not end there. It turns out that even the cameras capturing our sporting events harbor distinctly retrograde attitudes. They’re more sexist than Austin Powers, baby!

Ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, Olympic Broadcasting Services chief Yiannis Exarchos warned camera operators against the “unconscious bias” that leads broadcasters to film female athletes differently from men. “Women athletes are not there because they are more attractive or sexy or whatever,” he said. “They are there because they are elite athletes.”

The cameras aren’t the problem here. The real issue is our refusal to face up to what actually keeps people glued to their screens.

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