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.
