{"id":4204,"date":"2008-11-17T01:00:49","date_gmt":"2008-11-17T06:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=4204"},"modified":"2010-11-24T02:48:36","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T07:48:36","slug":"groundbreaking-female-competitive-sailor-reduced-to-hot-chick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/11\/17\/groundbreaking-female-competitive-sailor-reduced-to-hot-chick\/","title":{"rendered":"Groundbreaking Female Competitive Sailor Reduced to Hot Chick"},"content":{"rendered":"

Markus G. alerted us to some of the coverage of Samantha Davies, one of the few women to ever compete in the Vend\u00e9e Globe<\/a>, an around the world non-stop sailing competition.<\/p>\n

The coverage, in the Daily Mail<\/a>, highlights her sexuality instead of her competence as a sailor.\u00a0 Sexualizing women is problematic because it undermines any notion of her competence by reducing her to one purpose–fulfilling men’s lust–and erases, in doing so, her skills, work ethic, experience, and knowledge.<\/p>\n

The headline reads: “Lone Yachtswoman Samantha Davies: ‘Sometimes I sail naked.'”<\/p>\n

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Text includes such doozies as:<\/p>\n

When you see Samantha Davies pottering about in a teeny pink bikini on her pink sailing boat, Roxy, and spritzing her cabin with perfume, it\u2019s difficult to imagine her facing waves the size of houses, 80-mile-an-hour winds and nights without a second\u2019s sleep.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But that\u2019s how life is for Sam, a 33-year-old Cambridge engineering graduate who once wanted to be a ballerina, still loves to dress in girlie clothes onshore and wears three tiny diamond ear studs and a belly ring.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Let\u2019s get her sailing credentials out of the way \u2013 then we can move on to the important questions, such as: \u2018How do you have skin that looks like a Clarins advert when you don\u2019t sleep and your face gets ravaged by sun, salt and sea?\u2019<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2018In rough seas, sometimes it\u2019s too dangerous to boil water, so you just eat freeze-dried food,\u2019 she smiles. \u2018But as I\u2019m a girl, my nutritionist acknowledges that I have to eat chocolate each day!\u2019\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u2018Don\u2019t give me big muscles,\u2019 Sam wails. \u2018But you\u2019ve got to pull up your mainsail, and you can\u2019t do that without strong muscles,\u2019 replies her trainer. \u2018But my objective after the race,\u2019 insists Sam, \u2018is to have smaller, ladylike arms and shoulders!\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

…she uses her sex to her advantage: \u2018Whenever I don\u2019t want to climb the mast to do a job at the top, I wear a short skirt so that I simply can\u2019t get up there.\u2019 <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Other pictures included in the news story:<\/p>\n

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Markus G. alerted us to some of the coverage of Samantha Davies, one of the few women to ever compete in the Vend\u00e9e Globe, an around the world non-stop sailing competition. The coverage, in the Daily Mail, highlights her sexuality instead of her competence as a sailor.\u00a0 Sexualizing women is problematic because it undermines any […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[279,55,2093,1811,108],"class_list":["post-4204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-objectification","tag-gender","tag-gender-objectification","tag-nation-britainthe-u-k","tag-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4204"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29896,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4204\/revisions\/29896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}