Joy Taylor refuses to appease the male gaze after years of being attacked for her attire.
The sports personality was a guest on the Saturday (October 4) episode of Kayla Nicole's podcast The Pre-Game, where the host referenced Taylor's quote that she will "never apologize for being both smart and sexy on TV."
"If that makes you uncomfortable, that is your problem," Nicole said around the 12-minute mark of the video below.
Taylor, who's contract with Fox Sports wasn't renewed in July, stood by her remarks, although she told Nicole that she "wasn't always this way." "And I say that because it's important to know where you are in your career, the equity that you have in a certain business, the relationships, the ground that you've laid for your skills. All that is important," she continued.
Taylor added that early in her career, she was "hyperaware" of "coming across too sexy," because she didn't want people to assume that she was "leading" with her looks.
"But I did reach a point in my career where I was like, 'Look I'm not trying to create this persona that is not accurate to who I am. And like quite frankly, if my body makes you uncomfortable, I don't know what to fucking tell you,'" she continued.
The host went on to discuss that certain clothing may look different on "curvy" types, causing shapelier women to be ridiculed. "It's like nothing about what she's wearing is inappropriate. Her body just bothers you because you're a creep," she said. "In your mind that is what a sexy body looks like and therefore it should be covered to not emphasize what her body looks like."
"And so I just got to a point where I was like, what I'm wearing is not inappropriate. It's the same thing that my coworker is wearing. It's literally the
same outfit my co-worker is wearing, but she's just thin and not curvy," she explained.
"So it looks professional on her and it looks unprofessional on me. And also, I'm
not an unreasonable person," she explained. "I'm not popping on television in fucking pasties. So, it's like, look, if you sexualizing me, that's your problem. Like, me showing up looking like a professional and doing my job and you thinking I'm sexy... that's you. I'm not doing anything different than anyone else is doing. I'm not doing anything different than the men are doing. I'm just hotter."
One sports personality who's sexualized Taylor's body (during her her alleged sex scandal involving FS1 executive Charlie Dixon) was Jason Whitlock, who once remarked that Taylor had "peanut butter skin" and a "big rack."