I lack any sporting prowess and must therefore ask in
advance to be forgiven for any ignorance in the following post. However, something in the far away world of
sport recently caught my attention and probably the attention of every man in
the universe- the Lingerie Football League (LFL).
For those of you who have an
imagination, you have probably willingly or not so willingly created a mental
image of what this league incorporates just by reading the name. As I said, I'm not the sportiest but I
do have a great respect for those who are; for those who dedicate their heart
and soul into a sport and push the human body to its limits- those go-getters
deserve a certain amount of respect. But more specifically, women deserve a lot
of respect in the male dominating sphere that is sport.
I've posted three clips
below. One is a clip about women’s gridiron (the more conservative kind that
involves wearing cloths), one is a critique (given, a very informal one) of lingerie football and the last is an advertisement for por- sorry, for LFL. Some questions are
raised from these clips. Firstly, if there is already a woman’s football
league, then why was there a need to replicate that league but take away
cloths? Secondly, can the LFL be counted as a real sport or is it just a perve
fest for men? And lastly, does the LFL delegitimize women’s sport? One CBS news
report covered a Friday night game of lingerie football and it came across as
more of a comedy skit than a news segment. Not one of the men interviewed knew
any of the female players’ names and when asked whether they thought the team
playing was any good, the only responses were sexualised and revolved around
appearance or body parts. One Youtube user commented
at the bottom of the LFL clip saying: “This is why no one respects women’s
sports”. Do they have a point?
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