Is women's sport sexualized? - Page 16

On June 08 2013 08:38 AimlessAmoeba wrote:



You consider someone that looks like that ugly as fuck? Wow...

But uh, all the same - yeah I feel as though women's sport is a little oversexualized. It's hard not to be - athletic women are generally in great shape, which is what most men like to look at. But in all honesty, sports in general has an overabundance of sexualization.

On June 07 2013 22:19 Kuni wrote:
For the most part, women sports is not as fast / hard / strong / high etc. as male sports and why would you want to watch something weaker, when you can watch the real limit humans can reach in a sport in terms of speed, strength, power, height etc.?

On June 09 2013 02:14 Mothra wrote:


This is what I was thinking. After watching NBA, watching WNBA just feels like a highschool game. Sorry to be cynical, but I think if you try and take out sex appeal from womens sports then there would be very little viewers or money. It's just not interesting to watch except if you're a young girl playing sports or something.

On June 09 2013 01:10 JimmiC wrote:
"On June 08 2013 22:49 Bleak wrote:
Meh. Sex sells.

I don't get the point of discussing this. Women are sexy to men. It's natural that they're talked about that, as long as they're moderately attractive and fit, which most of the athletes you list are.


The discussion is not on whether people are good looking or not. The discussions are on the moral implications of placing a woman's worth on her looks instead of her accomplishments."

Actually the discussion was not "on the moral implications of placing..."

It was on are women's sports overly sexualized? Do people only watch them because of this? Is this a bad thing for womens sports?

You are just adding your own preconceived notions to the discussion and having a judge fest on people you don't know. And reading way more into there comments then they write again based on your stereotypes and bias's.

Apparently you think all men, especially people who post here are are sexist women haters.

And all women are innocent flowers who need protecting and would hate anyone to think of them to be sexy.

The crazy thing is you are completely wrong on both accounts. And in fact you are the biggest sexist here. So Mr. "Im so holy, your all bad" I suggest you take a look into the mirror and figure out your own issues. Because you are projecting a lot of anger on people who aren't writing anything negative but rather descriptive. You are adding the rest yourself.

On June 08 2013 10:22 HiTeK532 wrote:
The thing is female athletes are generally speaking subpar You could pick a team of basketball players off of a street court in New York and they would beat/compete against most WNBA teams. Since you can't sell the players based on skill (some exceptions of course) you need to sell the audience on something else.

On June 10 2013 01:49 Dekoth wrote:
Going to be just brutally honest here. In general no one would watch female sports if they weren't reasonably attractive. The competition level is just flatly lower and there is zero reason outside physical appearance to do so. The exception to this however should be eSports. There is literally zero reason females cannot compete at the highest levels as males have zero inherit advantage. We need more unattractive chicks playing eSports who are just crazy damn good to drive this point home.

On June 10 2013 02:09 Djzapz wrote:

I don't know that people watch sports solely because of performance attraction. I think it's funny - during the Olympics, people watch men run fixed distances and they somehow think it's entertaining (or something?). Go watch horse races if you like fast. Or watch F1 maybe. We're slow and weak.

On June 10 2013 02:28 Dekoth wrote:


Women's sports, not mens. Men's sports are watched largely to see the peak in physical ability in that particular sport.

On June 10 2013 02:40 PrideNeverDie wrote:


this

women's sports have to be sexualized to be watchable

a sport purist, someone who watches only for the best skills, would not watch women's sports because they are inferior to their male counterparts

therefore, for people to watch women's sports there needs to be another reason

On June 10 2013 02:28 Dekoth wrote:


Women's sports, not mens. Men's sports are watched largely to see the peak in physical ability in that particular sport.

On June 09 2013 04:57 JimmiC wrote:
Actually according to European Parliament Sexualization means

whereas sexualisation consists of an instrumental approach to a person by perceiving that person as an object for sexual use disregarding the person's dignity and personality traits, with the person's worth being measured in terms of the level of sexual attractiveness; sexualisation also involves the imposition of the sexuality of adult persons on girls, who are emotionally, psychologically and physically unprepared for this at their particular stage of development; sexualisation[note 1] not being the normal, healthy, biological development of the sexuality of a person, conditioned by the individual process of development and taking place at the appropriate time for each particular individual

So basically it's talking about youth.

If you are using you statements its simply personal and would be whether each person does that or doesn't and what they value

If you are using to sport then I would say it doesn't happen at the highest level of sport. The best players play regardless of there looks. Tennis has been used a bunch as examples and looks does not help them win tournaments and so on. same with the WNBA, there is some attractive players but they are there based on merit.

Where the attractive people make more money is in ad dollars. At that is a adults choice to sell her sexuality or what ever you want to call it to promote the product.

Also if you think that men Judge men harshly on looks more then women judging women you are straight CRAZY. Thats a point not even worth discussing lol


And it happens to both genders we just don't point it out as much. Look up Tyrone Hill and his accomplishments in the NBA.
Then look at Rick Fox (who is statistically worse) And had endorsements been on T.V. and so on.

On top of that most female athletes will tell you they don't care why people tune in, as long as they do. They would hope that if they tune in for looks they stay for the skill, but really all they care about is people watch so they can participate in the sport that they love instead of having to do some job, accountant, construction worker, waitress or what ever.

You don't think that GSP wears those tight trunks to gain some female fans and attention? And you don't think he minds that those extra eyes give him extra dollars.

So I just don't get what you are so mad about. All sports are sexualized, for all genders and in all forms of entertainment people are "sexualized".

But by your definition when relating it to sport, if looks was all that was used to determine worth. Kornikova would be a 15 time grand slam champion. However, in reality she never won, so being a hottie didn't up her worth in the sport. Just in pocket book by extra ad dollars.