Was just reading today that the Lingerie Football League is going to create a youth league. (read here) This is, of course, the kind of headline meant to shock, but in the last line of the article they admit that the girls won't be wearing lingerie. And when I'm faced with such things--the lingerie league itself I mean--I try to get past my first wtf reaction, and keep an open mind.
The league provides women with an opportunity (that is to say, the money) to play the damned sport... so I'm not all out for it. I mean, it's ridiculous, but it's still a chance to play a sport.
And so with the youth league too. If it means more girls will get the funding to play football, then... alright. That might be an okay thing.
All a bit Twilight Zone... but maybe okay. Also--the women playing do get props because they're playing with so much less padding. It's sort of hardcore... at the same time as being softcore. lol.
It reminds me of A League of Their Own, which I recently re-watched. Those women played in skimpy outfits too (and considering it was the 40s, I'd say it was an equivalent skimpiness) and the movie shows the kinds of nasty bruises they had from sliding to plates etc.
And the outdoor volleyball at the Olympics. The only reason it gets funding is because of the skimpy outfits too.
Sometimes... you do what you gotta do.
Just make sure you bitch slap the next person who says women now have full equality with men.
4 comments:
WoW! Shows you how freaking tough women are. Bet you couldn't get men to play in their jock straps and little else... just say'n.
Gods! ... Could you imagine some of those jocks playing in the tighty-whities? ... um ... on second thought, rather not imagine!
lol ! Maybe boxers?
I've never watched much of this league, but did watch some interviews with the players. I wanted to know if they were part-time "footballers" who also did say - exotic dancing - the rest of the week, or what? I quickly became convinced listening to them talk about their sport and their previous qualifications that indeed they are serious athletes. The fact that they have to play in their underwear to get funding shows only that the males providing the funding and the fan base are a sad joke.
I predict that as these women prove that this is about athletics - at least to them - then the game will change and the stupidity of the "Lingerie" aspect will go away... I hope.
Glad to hear it's not an aspect of the youth league!! That would be just wayyy over the line.
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