Sexism dressed up as sport like a wolf dressed up in sheepskin
But Mitch Mortaza
isn’t interested in dressing full stop, he’s more interested in getting rid of
the clothes.
“However despite the
branding shift, it is understood that women trying out for the team must supply
a full-length bikini shot to be sent back to the US LFL with an application
disclosing any tattoos and social networking profiles”
Just because he has
removed the garter, the choker and the frills, doesn’t mean he’s removed the
dirty stigma connected to where this idea came from.
“It was originally a
half-time gimmick. Mitch teamed up with Hugh Heffner and had the playmates
dress up and pretend to play football”
(Regan Webb, Queensland Brigade coach)
Legends Football
League is all about exploiting the female body for a profit.
Women are so
desperate to raise their public profile they are willing to lower their standards
to those that resemble the sex industry.
Is this really the
example we want to set for young Australian women? That in order to gain
attention you must first lower your standards and your dignity?
I’ve heard many women
argue It’s liberation! It’s empowerment!
Having dirty, filthy
men drool over you, spit sexists jokes at you and hang on to the edge of their
seat in hope to see some tits and arse…if that’s liberation and empowerment
then we have a much greater battle on our hands, and I’m very afraid of the
society we are creating for the generations to come.
Do women really not
respect themselves enough to fight for a place in the sporting world that allows
them to keep their clothes on!?
“ We all like
Lingerie Football…but it’s still called LFL and I think it will always have
that image of chicks playing football while not wearing very much”.
(Johanna
Theobald, who plays tight end)
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