Maggie

The sports themselves might not objectify women but the second they have an attractive player, she ends up in Sports Illustrated in a bathing suit and it’s all over.

But I don’t think this particular sport objectifies them any more or less than anything else.

  Westcoast Weirdo

Well, taking Maggie’s comment into my living room or any living room I have been in when men are watching a female in sports – The sports themselves might not objectify women but the second they have an attractive player, she ends up the talk of the room, lololol! She can be fully dressed, but if she’s hot, the men are going to la-la over her.

I think we women do it to the men players too, we just keep it dignified or to ourselves. LOL!

  Jeff

The better question is “Can men watch women anytime, anywhere without objectifying them?”

And, yes, PC I agree any spectator sport by its very nature objectifies the athletes involved. Men objectify men all the time, they just don’t want to admit it.

  ~K

Actually I believe the Lingerie League is proof men DO NOT objectify women athlete’s in general. I mean think about it. Do know why the Woman’s Basketball league is failing, or why we are not seeing more nationally televised woman’s hockey, or woman’s softball games?? It’s because there is no audience for them. However this flies in the face of the feminists because if men objectified women athlete’s then these leagues should be more popular than ever. The fact of the matter is men enjoy the competitiveness of sports and that is why we watch them to see other people at the top of their game make what we know is impossible look easy. The women have tried to break into the market of men’s sports i.e. the woman’s basketball league but they are no where near the NBA because they just aren’t competing at the level the men are. sorry, if that offends anyone but if you took the best men’s basketball team against the best woman’s team the men would bury them.

So back to my point the lingerie league shows that objectification has to be the point to get men to watch women athletic leagues. If it were not the case in point men would not watch plain and simple. Another example of this would be woman’s beach volleyball. I mean these are tall, fit, sun kissed women playing volleyball with sand sticking to their sweaty bodies. However, we are not watching “Monday Night Volleyball” but according to the objectification theory this should be the highest rated sports on TV. Yet you be lucky to catch it on a Saturday on a cable channel.

  Sage

I think that Roxy s right on. Anna K wasn’t an outstanding tennis player but she was the most recognizable. If the chick is hot then thats first, if she can also play then thats a bonus. I would watch Anna K play tennis (for a few minutes), I would not watch Billy Jean King play tennis.

I actually guys don’t care to much for womens sports. I can’t see the boys down at the juke sayin “Hey guys we should all go to the WNBA game tomorrow night”

anyway that is my take.

(Full disclosure, I don’t watch sports much, I find it mindless, also would never go to a game unless I had someone playing I knew well and cared about was playing in it.)

  Sage

PS.

the black chick in the middle of the pic, her ass is outstanding.

  Vixen

K- I really like what you had to say. Thanks for bringing up your points. It made a lot of sense. :)

  Vixen

Sage- you bring up a good point. I think you might be right…I’m not sure men DO much care about/for women’s sports. Hmm.