Lingerie Football, Legitimate Sport?

The Lingerie Football League is a growing league that is getting mixed reactions. Torkwase Fraser, a former pro sprinter who last season played for the San Diego Seduction, says that this league is full of competitors and says they are serious football players. The LFL has been criticized as "both a tawdry gimmick and blatantly sexist for its unabashed appeals to the base instincts of young male viewers." Fraser also said that it’s her choice to show her skin and she joined the league to show off her skills to a stadium audience and challenge herself physically.
Ryerson University sociology professor Nicole Neverson said the sport degrades women, exploits its unpaid athletes and is yet another example of the “sports media complex,” which reinforces gender stereotypes constructed around heterosexual male desires." The women may be athletic, Neverson said, but their athleticism is "not the hallmark of their participation in this league."
Fraser also stated that almost half of the women have played at least US college-level sports and about player in their underwear, "the get up isn’t much different than the two piece sprinting garb she wore at track-and-field meets."
All I can say is wow. This is definitally going to get some attention. I can defintitley understand the sexist part of the arguement but if the girls are not against playing in the lingerie then it is their choice. This falls into gender and sports when we talked about gender stereotypes on March 22nd when we brought in newspapers and our sexist ads. My only suggestion to this dillema is to put an age limit on the program so only adults older than 18 can go to the games and put a mature TV rating when it appears on TV.

http://www.thestar.com/news/article/974456--lingerie-football-no-gimmick-say-players