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New underwear league under debate
(Agencies)
Updated: 2009-09-04 11:43
Miami Fury has been a member of the Independent Women's Football League for all of its ten-year existence and the team's co-owner Gayla Harrington said she was initially uneasy about the formation of the Lingerie team largely due to the attire. 'PERNICIOUS OBJECTIFICATION' However, with the Caliente recruiting two of her players, she said the team had become more of a sports project than she initially imagined. "It is more athletic, a little more serious than I originally thought," she said, adding that she would support the team in their home games but was unsure whether the LFL would help her to generate backing for her own team. "It could be a positive or a negative. It could be that people still don't take (women's football) seriously but then again it might help," she said. Feminist writer Courtney Martin has no doubts over whether the LFL will help women. "This is objectification at its most pernicious -- give women an opportunity to participate in a sport that they haven't had the chance to do for pay and publicly previously, but only let them do it if they are stereotypically pretty and willing to do it in their underwear," she wrote on website feministing.com. So why not simply play the game in conventional dress? "But then half the people wouldn't watch," said Tuning. "Sure, some people aren't going to watch because they think it is degrading or they don't want to watch it with their kids. "But then there is going to be a group of people who watch it because of (the attire) and they might say: 'Wow -- this is real, athletic and they know what they are doing." |
