Aggressive contact sports such as football, roller derby and body building are seen as masculine male only sports. Today many women are finding interest in more aggressive masculine sports. Although women are becoming more interested in playing these sports many times they struggle with issues of being taken seriously, limited teams to play on, gaining respect and being exploited.
Based on the reading “Women’s Participation in Tackle Football” by Todd A. Migliaccio and Ellen C. Berg women play football for many reasons. Some women play because they have a lifelong love for the game. Some women always wanted to play but never had the chance. Others grew up playing with brothers, friend and neighbors. Many women love playing football because it is empowering and destabilize the separation between femininity and masculinity.
Many women are interested in contact sport, in 2009 alone American women age 16 and up spent 3.1 billion on sports logo appeal. Nearly half of these women purchased college football logo attire. Girls High School flag football has almost doubled from 3,855 girls playing on 103 teams from 2002-2003 to 6,235 girls playing on 171 teams from 2009-2010. I could only imagine if a women football team was offered in colleges how many females would be on the team. After reading and learning about how many women was interested in contact sports and football I begin to wonder why competitive women’s football was not offered in colleges across the United States.
Women basketball has been accepted and recognized as a serious sport. Women now have their own basketball teams in high schools as well as colleges. Because women’s basketball is now accepted I do believe one day women professional football can also be accepted. The only worry about women football is if men will accept and respect women in football.
Men have a hard time accepting women into their world of sports especially when it comes to football. Many females have a interest in playing football but their chances of being good at the sport is limited because many men that play football have the opportunity to begin playing the game at a young age. Boys have the opportunity to play in peewee football leagues, on boy’s high school football teams, in college and in the pros. Opportunities for females are much more limited.
If women football leagues get big in college I believe it will open the door for women football to begin to take off. I think women football is a great Idea. Over the past few decades women have proven how strong they are. Women are just as powerful and equal to men. There is enough women to create a female football league therefore these women should be supported. If a few colleges begin to offer woman’s football as a serious college sport in their schools and recruit women for these football teams and these teams compete with other colleges females interested in playing football will attend these schools so they can be recruited for the female football league. A successful women’s female league on ESPN will mean that women sports have come a long way and is finally given the respect deserved.
Although professional women football leagues now exist my worry is that they will never be taking serious like the male football league. The women football league work hard and play hard but many of the women play for a $1.00 a day. I would like to know how these women survive with such a low salary. It is unfair how men football players make so much money and are well recognized on ESPN when the female professional football league is given very little publicity and no recognition.
The women in the professional football league are dedicated and are very good at playing the game. It is obvious that the women in the professional football league take the game serious and want to be recognized for their talent and skill. My question is why these games aren’t being broadcasted on ESPN and why these women aren’t receiving more recognition and support.
It is sad that women with such great talent are not being recognized when the women lingerie football league is getting lots of recognition. The women lingerie league is a new football league for women to participate in and although the league is very new it is already the most popular and most broadcasted professional female football league. This makes me wonder if women can actually ever be taken seriously in sports.
The lingerie football league is a league for athletic, beautiful women with nice bodies to run around and entertain men. Is this really football? Is this form of entertainment even considered sport? Or is this just considered a form of entertainment and exploitation? How can women really be taking seriously playing a sport when they are playing it in lingerie? Is this league a way of saying the only way women can be recognized playing football is if they play half naked?
Football is a very masculine aggressive sport. You cannot add lingerie into the sport and expect it to be taken serious. Football is a professional sport and for women to be taken serious in the sport they must be represented professionally and conduct themselves as professionals. For any female league to be taken serious the women need to be able to play on the same level as the men. Even with the WNBA although it is the female league many of the women can play a one on one game against many of the men in the NBA and win. For a women football league to be given the same respect they must have that same talent and professional reputation. Having a lingerie football league is very disrespectful to the other professional women football leagues that play hard, practice hard and really learn to be great at the game rather than using lingerie as a way to bring sex appeal to their league. This league doing better than the other professional female football leagues goes to show just how women are seen in sports.
Like hooters and cheerleaders. Women are only seen as beautiful objects put their solely to support and cater to the men. Whenever you see women in male dominating sports you see them in outfits that show a great portion of their body. The women are always gorgeous and always have nice in shape bodies. When you see the cheerleaders the cheerleaders are always beautiful, the cheerleaders always have nice bodies and the cheerleaders’ purpose is to cheer on and support the men in short skirts. In sports you never see men cheering on the women. Even at hooters they have requirements for the employees to be females with nice bodies, big breast and they are required to wear small tight revealing uniforms. The purpose of Hooters is for men to come watch sports while being waited on by beautiful, fit females. Men dominate sports and it will take a lot before women are completely welcome into the world of sports.
Women’s football Halloween costumes are very popular because on Halloween many women try to use that as a time to dress sexy. Women know that men love football so they wear sexy football outfits on Halloween to gain the attention of the men. What I find to be so funny about the costume is even though it is designed to be a football uniform it is very sexy and revealing. I wonder how well the costume would sell if it was very masculine and had no sex appeal.
Even in body building women sexual attraction is important. In body building the body builders are very masculine. Female bodybuilders are very strong and manly but in order to make money female body builders must have implants and represent themselves as sex objects. Female body builders have websites and calendars were they dress in bikinis and lingerie showing off their implants and bodies. Although body building is their passion the only way for them to make enough money to support them self is to show their bodies and exploit themselves.
Female sports have come a long way but still has a long way to go. In sports people need to stop seeing women as little delicate creatures put on earth to support men and realize that a variety of different type of women exist in this world and all types of women and all types of people need to be respected and supported. Sports should be equal and women should be given the same opportunities to succeed in every sport.
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