Hanna and Haley Cavinder are pushing back on what they called a demeaning profile in Bari Weiss’ The Free Press.
Ethan Strauss wrote the article about the Cavinder twins and what The Free Press called the “hot girl problem” in women’s college athletics.
The subtitle reads: “The Cavinder Twins, the emerging oligarchs of women’s college basketball, aren’t the best players. But they might be the best-looking.”
The article, which refers to the twins as “not really two separate human beings as much as a single, self-contained brand,” goes on to recount the Cavinder twins’ rise through social media, as well as their career choices, from Fresno State to Miami and now the WWE.
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It includes this passage:
In other words, there’s the way things are supposed to be, a world in which male and female athletes are genderless machines, and the only thing that matters is how fast, how strong, and how skilled they are. And then there’s the way things really are, a world in which most people who watch sports are dudes with paunches and six-packs of beer. They appreciate girls who can shoot three-pointers, but really, they like girls in bikinis making mindless videos—OnlyFans with a dollop of “wellness.”
The Cavinder twins
