warwick wrote: what exactly is she doing? Where's she going with that surfboard? What's going on there?
She's going to the beach. For a surf. That's why she has a surfboard under her arm and is in her swimming gear.
Spend a couple of weeks in Hossegor during the summer and you'll see this sort of thing every day. Girls on longboards in bikinis, girls on bikes in bikinis, girls surfing in bikinis, etc.
It's summer. It's hot. It's a generation of young women who didn't have the misfortune to grow up in a country where wearing apparel approriate to the weather and activity brands them as sluts or racy or attention-seeking.
That shot may well be from a photoshoot for sponsorship or promotional reasons, but whether it is or not, it's just a reflection of beach culture in countries where women just get on with their lives regardless of drooling old men like us.
It's just bodies. Men walk around in the summer just wearing shorts. Women walk around just wearing bikinis. It wouldn't work in an office or at a funeral, but it's the appropriate apparel for the situation. Doesn't mean anything more than that.
Anyway, this thread's been going well so far. I have a ten year old daughter who skates, and I'd really like to be able to show her inspiring pictures of other girls and women who skate. It'd be nice if we can keep this thread inspiring, and not let it become just another place where she will see women playing to the male gaze and men reacting in a pathetic way. Can we manage that?