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What Really Scares Me: Social Attitudes Towards Women (2011-11-02 08:05)
The following items all came across my desk (top) last week and it seemed fitting to put them into one post.
The first is with regard to the Boxing Federation wishing to make the female boxers box wearing skirts:
That’s right, skirts. The AIBA has introduced a trial alternate uniform, asking female boxers
to wear skirts because it will make the women easier to distinguish from the men, as if the completely
different bodies wasn’t enough. Poland adopted the uniform, calling the uniforms more
”elegant” and ”womanly.”
via [1]Boxing federation wants female boxers to wear skirts - Fourth-Place Medal - Olympics
Blog - Yahoo! Sports.
As you might imagine, the comments on this article with alternately hilarious and maddening (seriously,
reading comments on a news article is the quickest way to both cause my blood to boil and to simultaneously
despair at the future of humankind). I liked this one though:
”So I guess the AIBA thinks Americans are so stupid that when they see ’Women’s boxing,’
sports bras, longer hair, and oh yeah, women, we can’t figure out what gender it is until we see
skirts.
’What sport is this?’ ’Boxing...but those don’t look like men...what the hell are they?’”
But, why stop at skirts?! Why not lingerie! That’s what the Lingerie Football League is in favor of:
The LFL claims its emergence in 2009 ”formally shattered ... the ceiling on women playing
tackle football.” Thankfully, the visionaries at the LFL have devised a way to offer such athletic
empowerment to our younger generation with their decision to start a youth league:
”With the growing popularity around the LFL, younger and younger girls are starting to dream
of playing LFL football,” its website reads. ”In recent months and years, parents of young ladies
routinely contact LFL league offices inquiring about everything ranging from what size football
do you use to what form of training should I place my daughter into now to prepare her for LFL
Football. [sic]”
...Look, I know we can’t shield our little girls with a protective glass box and expect them
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