tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3486177601646533834.post8694717013301011928..comments2008-08-20T11:54:28.801-04:00Reneehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16388113393817266374noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3486177601646533834.post-14423689072079664562008-08-20T11:54:00.000-04:002008-08-20T11:54:00.000-04:002008-08-20T11:54:00.000-04:00Check out the contrast between Crystl Bustos and Jennie Finch of USA Softball. <BR/><BR/>So often the media's way of hinting around the fact that a female athlete is not "traditionally" pretty is to suggest that her teammates are just pretty faces. In the coverage of Bustos, in order not to come out and say "she's not cute" they talk about how her teammates could do swimsuit spreads or look like they just came out of the same sorority.<BR/><BR/>Why can't we talk about how much they kick ass, without qualifying it by how sexy they are as they do it?Nhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05362464016169440768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3486177601646533834.post-43083965291917199072008-08-18T07:40:00.000-04:002008-08-18T07:40:00.000-04:002008-08-18T07:40:00.000-04:00And people wonder why so many women are reluctant to do sports.<BR/><BR/>Yes, when you do Kung Fu and whip around yourself in a flurry of kicks and punches things are gonna get moving. And if you have big breasts like I do, the first thing you wanna hear outside the gwoon is not: "Aw man, yo titties were a-schwinging!"<BR/><BR/>Yes, fucktard, I knew that. They're attached to my body, in case you hadn't noticed.<BR/><BR/>I don't do any sports these days, and subsequently my breasts are even larger now - much to my dismay. <BR/><BR/>But the point is: For women sports aren't just fun. Sure they might ALSO be fun, but they're not just that. All the time when sports are marketed to women they're not marketed as fun, they're marketed as something that'll make you trimmer, tighter, thinner, more beautiful etc etc. And when we actively go out there and DO the sports then apparently it's big game day for sleaze-bag commentaries. <BR/><BR/>And either the comments will be negative because we wear baggy, comfy clothes that hide any wobbling curves there might be, or we get sleazy comments because we surely must want them since we wear such skin tight standard sports outfits, where people(men) can see what we look like.<BR/><BR/>Damned if you do, damned if you don't. It sucks. Big time.jemimaaslanahttp://jemimaaslana.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3486177601646533834.post-27893697308135817912008-08-17T23:40:00.000-04:002008-08-17T23:40:00.000-04:002008-08-17T23:40:00.000-04:00This upsets me because women athletes have such a potential to help young girls see their bodies as strong and active, rather than as always sexualized. Look, if an athlete chooses to do a sexy spread off the court/track/etc -fine, that's her choice. But there seems to be a growing push to actively sexualize them while they compete. Of course, what's good for the wanker trumps what's good for the kiddies, right?Habladorahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01730183259272125337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3486177601646533834.post-48543825758657280682008-08-17T20:27:00.000-04:002008-08-17T20:27:00.000-04:002008-08-17T20:27:00.000-04:00<I><BR/>Because, you know, woman = sex. Man = people.</I><BR/><BR/>Excellent comeback.smartlikemehttp://smartlikeme.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3486177601646533834.post-30007599416215865512008-08-16T11:47:00.000-04:002008-08-16T11:47:00.000-04:002008-08-16T11:47:00.000-04:00And 9 times out of 10 when I state any variation of this particular problem to a man, he says "sex sells."<BR/><BR/>Because, you know, woman = sex. Man = people.Lisa Harneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05701960869234061244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3486177601646533834.post-30481714142757531662008-08-16T11:03:00.000-04:002008-08-16T11:03:00.000-04:002008-08-16T11:03:00.000-04:00Brad Pitt or Bill Gates?philo589http://openid.aol.com/philo589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3486177601646533834.post-33997479004150496742008-08-16T04:51:00.000-04:002008-08-16T04:51:00.000-04:002008-08-16T04:51:00.000-04:00I do not wholy a gree with her but I do somewhat agree.Sahil Bhallahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12901422279455764209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3486177601646533834.post-66987018009707735822008-08-15T19:49:00.000-04:002008-08-15T19:49:00.000-04:002008-08-15T19:49:00.000-04:00Since a big part of the reason physical attractiveness even exists in the first place is to judge fitness and health at a glance, athletics is actually one of the few professions for which rampant sexualization makes perfect sense. Indeed, it would seem that athletes aren't sexualized nearly enough, on account of that modern standards of beauty are so utterly detached from what actually signifies a physically-capable person that female sex-symbols are, for the most part, non-athletic.FTGarciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13602590412308090259noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3486177601646533834.post-70419024870704706242008-08-15T18:30:00.000-04:002008-08-15T18:30:00.000-04:002008-08-15T18:30:00.000-04:00Hence <A HREF="http://www.kournikova.com/" REL="nofollow">Anna Kournikova</A>'s status as one of the most popular female tennis players of all time, despite having never won a professional singles tournament.<BR/><BR/>I do, however, like the recent commercials for the WNBA, in which athletes like Candice Parker challenge male stereotypes about female athletes.Sandalstrapshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16303641009581382217noreply@blogger.com