{"id":201,"date":"2022-02-01T17:37:44","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T17:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/?p=201"},"modified":"2022-02-01T17:37:46","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T17:37:46","slug":"blog-post-3-sports-gender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/2022\/02\/01\/blog-post-3-sports-gender\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Post 3: Sports &amp; Gender"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"LFL Legends Football League - Lingerie Football League\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xxK-AguBHAQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>One sport that I think is wild is the Lingerie Football League. It sounds like a joke, but it is a real women\u2019s sport with hard hitting full contact. It is pretty much like the National Football League rules but on a much smaller scale. The games are played indoors on a field half the size of a regulation NFL field. Also, the women have much smaller pads and helmets, as they are required to wear a skimpy bikini as they play. The players are women in their 20s-30s, and their coaches are usually men who get surprisingly very intense. Assumingly, the audience is men ranging in all ages. It definitely speaks to men, as the women are dressed in basically nothing. It is the same rules that are applied in the NFL, which makes it seem pretty non-discriminatory towards women. However, they are forced to dress in bikinis that hardly cover anything. I think it is pretty ridiculous that women are forced to be sexualized even in sport. I believe they should have the option, or maybe even the requirement to wear full pads, helmets, and especially clothes. I wouldn\u2019t say the women in this league hit as hard as the men in the NFL, but they should still have the same protection that NFL players have for their safety. The wildness in this sport in general, minus the fact that they hardly have any clothes on, is how intense the games get. This wildness ranges from fights on the field between the women, to fights in the stands between drunk rowdy fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One sport that I think is wild is the Lingerie Football League. It sounds like a joke, but it is a real women\u2019s sport with hard hitting full contact. It is pretty much like the National Football League rules but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/2022\/02\/01\/blog-post-3-sports-gender\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-welcome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions\/202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}