Lingerie Football, Sport, fad,

Pat Griffin discusses in her LGBT sports blog about the Lingerie Football League and the offensiveness she takes against it.

Such offensiveness involved is the media portrayals of women, example, hyper-sexualizing women, the names of the teams ( Fantasy, Desire, Bliss, Passion, etc). All of which as a class we have studied and are now able to interpret what the real context behind the Lingerie League is. In my opinion it is just a spectacle. Something to entertain the male sports loving fan demographic, which is also an incredibly lucrative industry by itself.

The women within this league may be serious athletes or they do not care about the portrayal of themselves on national tv. They are scantily clad, which Griffin notes, "there are lots of skin, lots of T & A". Women showing a lot of skin will for sure entice a mail crowd to enter an arena and see them. But nobody is taking this seriously (maybe the players, maybe), the audience is primarily only going there to see the women in skimpy clothes. Griffin says that the wardrobe malfunctions lures the fans in like crashes lure nascar fans.

We also have to look at the players themselves. The women from what i am seeing are very attractive (some), fit, athletic(?) (never seen a game). One can agree that the players were chosen mainly for sexual atrractiveness, Pat Griffin states that "it seems clear the players were chosen for their appearance and heterosexiness as much as for their football skills. everyone of them on the LFL website has large breasts and small buts, not one with muffin tops and love handles". We can compare appearance of the women to the men in the NFL... not all guys have six packs or well defined pecs, assumingly, i don't really want to check.

So this spectacle clearly involves, also, the female apologetic. We also look at the idea of female athletes becoming more masculinzed. These women do not fit that idea, they were brought in for a specific reason, to look sexy in lingerie and play some football for the entertainment of the male viewers