The last few years have led to something we’re thinking of  calling the DePrivitazation of Privates, or at least of panties.  There’s Victoria’s eponymous fashion show…about that Secret? In name only, trust us. Sports isn’t immune…the Lingerie Football League  sports lots of chicks in corsets (and the magical tagline “true fantasy football”–NSFW, btw.)

So the furor over the events of yesterday, in which Venus Williams forgot to wear panties (and, incidentally, played tennis too) is a little funny to us.  OK, sure, her skirt had a front slit…and we couldn’t really see anything under it.  Including, actually, her butt.

Deadspin’s undercover (rimshot!) analysis is that she was wearing some kind of bodysuit or unitard-y type thing.  You can really always count on the Deadspin guys to do some in depth reporting.  And they do have the grace to make fun of themselves a bit. It’s the fact that the rest of the internet was blowing up that causes the big questionmark above our heads.

We know sports chicks are sex symbols, especially in tennis–hey Anna, whats up?–and the Williams sisters have pushed the envelope before, what with Serena’s fashion designs and all, but we have to say, what’s the percentage here?  If she’s most comfortable without panties….fine.  The bodysuit itself doesn’t actually have anything to do with anything…if she’d shocked America by lacking underwear, nobody should have cared.

Hell, if she’d been a man, nobody would even have noticed…