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March 25, 2009

Force Football - It May Sound Like Fun, but I Wouldn't Want My Mother to Play It

Recently a friend sent Bruce a link to this article about the Lingerie Football League. Now, when you see any article about the Lingerie Football League, you're going to see a lot of photos of the players clad in skimpy underwear with that non-reflective black paint stuff under their eyes. They're all in classic fashion-model poses with windblown hair, and they all look like they're wearing several pounds of cosmetics. There is no question that the goal here is appeal to human mating instincts. I mean, the title of the stupid thing features lingerie, not women. It's very different from a real women's football league.

Now, I'm about to explain why the Lingerie Football League is a stupid idea, and I hope all my friends on the Chicago Force forgive me for this, because I admire them very much, but they have very different ideas about the role of women than I do. This article at ESPN.com is more typical of how they would react. But you see, I'm a cat, and it doesn't bother me to see something that's insulting or degrading to the concepts of sports or womanhood. Humans are always doing stuff that seems goofy to me.

No, all I can see is that if I were a human I would be proud to be able to say my mother played on the Chicago Force but would hope nobody ever found out she had played on the LFL's Chicago Bliss. This is a serious problem, because in the Internet age the past is never forgotten. If there's an embarrassing photo of you anywhere, it will become public sooner or later, and the LFL web site is a treasure trove of ridiculous photos.

I don't expect the LFL to last very long. Eventually, the novelty will wear off or some poor girl will die from a ruptured breast implant (I wish that were a joke). I'm not surprised this has happened, either: it's a natural product of a society that views children as a cost of having sex, instead of one's whole point for being alive in the first place. I mean, if a woman's just there for the fun of it, who cares if she's smart, or responsible, or has any strength of character?

And if a woman doesn't need to be a good mother, then a man sure as heck doesn't need to worry about being a worthwhile husband, so he has no problem with plunking down cash to watch scantily-clad women playing a stripped-down version of football, and so here we are. It doesn't make a lot of sense in the long run, but it's where we find ourselves these days, and I don't make the rules: I just try to figure them out.

Respectfully submitted,

Ferdinand T. Cat

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Posted by: bernie from Planck's Constant at March 29, 2009 10:58 PM