Sport or Sex?

Pat Griffin’s blog entry about lesbians and lingerie football is definitely an interesting combination. The first thing that comes to mind when you hear the word lingerie is usually sex or Victoria’s Secret models. I would have to agree that this is one of the main goals of the Lingerie Football League.

In today’s society, it is all about the man’s sport with little recognition given to women. When women’s sport is represented, the media turns it into a sexual appeal for the public and always shows the female athletes as models rather than athletes. They do this to give the feminine apology to society and make it seem okay that there is female athlete on the cover of a magazine or the face of a new product, because how dare a female would be represented for what she is talented at, when our world is male dominant in sports.

The Lingerie Football League is a huge example of that feminine apology to males and society. These women are not represented as athletes, but again as a sex appeal so it isn’t weird that a man is watching a female sport. Dudley Sargent brings up the idea that many people believe that athletics are making girls more masculine and are destroying the beautiful lines and curves of a female’s figure in his article “Are Athletics Making Girls Masculine? A Practical Answer to a Question Every Girl Asks”. The LFL is a way to not lose that and still show their femininity.

The interesting thing about this blog entry is the fact that a female in the LFL has come out as a lesbian. While this has a positive impact on athletes not being afraid of their true sexual preference, she is almost using this as another sex appeal to the sport. It’s not about her being a lesbian in athletics, but she’s advancing the idea of girls tackling girls on the football field and being aggressive, yet sexy, in that way.