Women may not be as physically strong as men, but that does not mean they can not play sports. Football is a huge male dominated sport that is believed women know nothing about and definitely cant play. This is one hundred percent false. I am personally friends with a few girls on the Baltimore charm lingerie football league, and they are very very good at what they do. They work just as hard as an NFL player. I have worked out with them and they do the same serious football drills and training that male football players do.These women are very pretty and by all means sexy, but dont let that fool you. They are also very very strong powerful women who dont just want to be looked at as tough sex symbols. Most of their fan base is males. In my eyes, this is not because they like to go to the games to watch the hard hitting football and hard work being performed by the women, its because the girls are, in a sense, fighting each other in sexy reveling lingerie. To women watching this, or at lease me, think that these are powerful strong women playing a male dominating sport and are proving that we women can play just as hard as males. It is wrong that in order to play on this team the women have to be degraded and put in these sexy outfits just to get recognized for being athlets or even have a team at all. Even though women playing football and it being streamed live on TV is a step forward, we take 2 steps back because the women are looked at as sex symbols and not respected as a football player. It makes me think, if they werent in lingerie, would the womens football teams still exsist? Its a sad answer, but odds are probably not.
Young girls in today's society are very pressured to grow up faster then they should. Girls as young as 10 to 14 years old are wearing makeup, dressing up in mini skirts and tube tops, and high heels. Girls this young should not want to be wearing makeup and dressing up to impress the boys, they should be outside playing with the boys, jumping rope, or simple fun kid games. Even when a girl plays with a barbie or a brat doll, they are faced with this beautiful made up doll that they try to idealize because its whats popular. Another thing that has a huge impact on young girls is there musical idols. I know when I was a young girl, my ideal was Brittany Spears and Christina. Spears was only 16 when her hit song "Hit Me Baby One More Time" came out and in this video she was very sexualized to entertain the male fantasy. When young girls watch their ideal on TV they wanted to be like them and dress like them because it is how they want to be. This is a major problem in today's society that such young girls are being sexualized so young and practically brain washed to grow up so fast into this sexual symbol for men to fantasize over.
