ATP Thirst: Full Release

At long last, our ATP “hot list,” in our signature TBS style. Our mission: have fun, be sex-positive, not put anyone down, and marvel at how subjective and silly all this is. We talk about the ethics of objectifying men, the male gaze and male gays, and the “structures of looking” from Laura Mulvey on into the 21st century. After that bit of (hopefully interesting) table-setting, we get right into our categories of hotness (brains, aura, and ass are a few key examples). Finally, each of us share our hot lists of both active and retired players. Stay tuned for a few embarrassing crushes and lots of Rafa/Bjorn/Grigor mentions; and remember, with men the ick is always just around the corner.

4:05 Is objectifying men ok?

14:00 The straight male gaze, the straight woman gaze, and the gay gaze 

19:20 “The male figure cannot bear the burden of sexual objectification” (Mulvey, 1975)

27:25 So why are we doing this? Well, first of all, it’s fun

32:55 Categories that make up hotness, starting with Aura 

38:05 A key category: slutty shorts

56:00 The daddy archetype and faces that belong on a coin

60:15 Our lists 

68:40 Embarrassing or disavowed crushes: we all have them 

73:30 The retired players who would have made the list