Is women's sport sexualized? - Page 13

On June 07 2013 22:18 Zephirdd wrote:

This ia Marta. Best female football player in the world. In my opinion, ugly as fuck.

Answer to your thread: no, female sports are not sexualized. Athletes tend to have prettier bodies, thats it.

On June 08 2013 08:02 theodorus12 wrote:
While they might don't like it, I seriously just don't care and see nothing wrong with it, it's just so obvious how most abuse their looks.... But don't we have any real problems left? I mean we must be living in a perfect world to have time to argue about something as irrelevant as this topic....

Society is way more than ok atm.. most likely even a bit too "ok". But this is gonna change pretty soon I guess.

On June 08 2013 07:49 sunprince wrote:


Then your same logic can be applied to show that any profession is objectified. After all, an athlete is reduced to an object to play sports for our entertainment and are thus entertainment objects. An engineer is reduced to an object to build things for our use and are thus construction objects, little better than machines. Etc,

On June 08 2013 08:06 ComaDose wrote:

ill bet you 40,000 ESPORTS dollars you're a strait white male?

On June 08 2013 08:06 ComaDose wrote:

ill bet you 40,000 ESPORTS dollars you're a strait white male?

On June 08 2013 08:16 theodorus12 wrote:



I'm actually black. Now what? hurr check ur privilege? Or what are you trying to tell me?

On June 08 2013 08:18 ComaDose wrote:

i didn't know anyone else would be arrogant enough to claim an issue affecting over half the population wasn't important :/

On June 08 2013 08:11 AUFKLARUNG wrote:
OP, this is a good topic for discussion, but I believe a lot is lost in the manner the first post is written. So, If you think I understand your post correctly, please edit it or add this to tidy things up a bit:

KEY ISSUES:
1. Sports is generally about performance and skills;
2. When it is mediated through mass media, specifically television, due to the media's visual nature, physical attractiveness (face) of the athletes become an important consideration;
3. This practice - emphasis on attractiveness - is more prevalent in women sports more than in men.
A. Physical unattractiveness does not hinder the watchability of a male athlete as long as he excels at his sport (Ribery) but physical unattractiveness (face, or the hesitation towards muscle-bound women like in weighlifting, WNBA, etc.) in women is a crucial factor in deciding an athlete's and the sports popularity.
B. On the converse side, attractive female athletes may and do enjoy immense popularity despite only
C. Media and sports executives encourage and aggressively enforce this phenomenon further be "regulating" the sports to highlight the femininity and sexuality of women, as in dress code.

POINTS OF DISCUSSION:
1. The discussion is not about whether male or female athletes have beautiful faces and bodies;
2. Is this solely because of the demography of the audience/viewer who are predominantly male, thus necessitating in the highlighting of the sexuality of women. Conversely, theoretically, if there were more women audience, would it be logical to conclude that men sports would be significantly sexualized as well?
3. Is this a good thing (sexualization for the sake of watchability)? Is there a women sports which is watch primarily because of the athletes skills, and how does it differ from the general practice of the "sports-entertainment" phenomenon. How do we remove or minimize the objectification of women sports?

On June 08 2013 08:21 theodorus12 wrote:

It's not an issue to most women, if you like it or not, most women WANT to be sexy, they like male attention. Just read or watch any women magazine, TV show etc.

There's only a small circle of hyper feminists who think this laughable "issue" is even worth mentioning.

It's funny how most of the people disagreeing with you are using the arguement. That it's not about women. That the sexualization in sports and the world is about $ and it's not sexism its for both genders.

But some how you keep coming back sexism and poor women. Do you do this because in fact you are sexist and you are over compensating? Or because you think taking up the plight of poor women makes you a better person?

Are you just as out raged that beckam gets paid by companies, has his own perfume, when Messi is clearly better? And Beckam is just more handsome? If you are not as outraged by this as you are that more attractive females make more money, then hate to break it to you buddy but you are the Sexist.

And if you don't think most women want to be sexy, I would suggest you pick up any womens magazine and read the articles. Since you are not good and making jumps of logic I'll give you another hint, all the weightloss stuff, its not about being healthier, its about looking better. And shockingly if you pick up a men magazine, all the getting buff tips and articles arn't about lowering blood pressure they too are about looking better.

On June 08 2013 08:24 ComaDose wrote:

obviously sex sells.
uh yeah most women are judged on their looks all the time.
i'm not sure how you use most women wanting to be sexy to equate to judging women primarily on their looks.

On June 08 2013 08:28 theodorus12 wrote:



It's a non issue because everyone gets judged based on their looks. Only the turbo feminists think this is a women only thing.

This whole thread is as pointless as it gets.

On June 08 2013 08:29 ComaDose wrote:

i disagree. i believe that women get judged on their looks much more than men. and that it is an issue.

On June 08 2013 08:29 ComaDose wrote:

i disagree. i believe that women get judged on their looks much more than men. and that it is an issue.

On June 08 2013 08:32 theodorus12 wrote:



Well that's your opinion. But even if it were true, women are also much better at abusing their looks than men.