Participation in sports is bad for girls & women

[Pool Hall Ace]

Middle age has been beating the hell out of me lately, so I joined a Jazzercise class to get moving and hopefully take some of this extra beef off of me.

Someone had mentioned a company called Title 9 Sports that had a good selection of sports bras for larger-busted women, so I decided to check them out. I did a Google search, and one of the hits was this link:

http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Womens%20Page/christian_women_and_sports.htm

The author is concerned that all of this sports training encouraged by parents is going to result in women who are not going to be "Biblically obedient wives and mothers." Not only that, but the women will be better prepared to compete with men in the workforce (horrors!:scared: ). As far as sports where girls compete against boys, the poor boys will have to do the chivalrous thing and forfeit! How traumatic for a boy to lose to a . . . a girl.

I guess I better be careful with this Jazzercise. I love it, but if I become too much of a hardbody, I guess my husband will leave me. Who knows? This could be a bigger threat to my marriage than those gays.

[ZombieNixon]

1. Or worse yet,

*you* might catch "The Gay" in your jazzercize class and leave your husband. :eyes:

God, these people need to pull their heads out of their asses. x(

[Pool Hall Ace]

2. You have a point there, many attractive ladies are in the class.

:hi:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

3. Well, duh...I mean, I did full-contact competive karate & fencing...

In practice, I even worked with male partners. I'm sure that guy who's rib I punched through was merely doing the chivalrous thing.

Wow...I guess this all explains why I grew up into a total queer. I'd be a perfectly heterosexual young woman had I not done all those rough sports.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

14. Ouch.

That did not sound fun for him. :scared:

And it's "whose." :P :hide:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

15. Shut up. I knew that.

I'm sick so I get an excuse.

He was kind of a jackass, so I didn't feel bad for him. He actually denied it broke, until he was in the ER a couple days later because he couldn't breathe.

I did however feel bad for the girl whose nose I broke. She was nice; I genuinely slipped and broke it by accident. She quit afterwards.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

16. Well, at least he deserved it.

I hope you won't kick my ass for being a grammar Nazi. :D :hug:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

18. Your ass is safe. I do it, too.

:hug:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

19. Cool.

But just in case you go nuts, please stay away from the face. Just hit me in the stomach -- your hand will probably get stuck in all the fat.

:D

[Oeditpus Rex]

4. I covered women's athletics for eight years

as a sportswriter.

When the game's on it's not a problem, but sometimes before and after games and during times-out, I had to remind myself, "They're athletes, dammit! They have no gender!"

Yeah. And they're hawt as hell.

[ThomCat]

12. That's even more funny with that Jenis picture in your sig.

:)

[SOteric]

5. And it didn't mention all the lust those toned bodie will inspire?

Hrmph.

[Pool Hall Ace]

6. Toned bodies? No, no. The women are going to look

just like men. Men I tell you!

[pitohui]

11. toned bodies from jazzercise?

lol

[VeggieTart]

7. Here we go again.

There's a good company that makes bras/underwear/shirts/skirts--all sorts of cotton clothes for women, and they have bras in almost any size you can think of. They're based in Seattle, don't use sweatshop labor. They might be able to hook you up.

www.decentexposures.com

I just got my first order from them a few weeks ago, and the skirt I got is the softest most comfortable I've ever owned. They're worth every penny.

[Pool Hall Ace]

8. Wow, great selection of styles and colors. As far as sizes go,

I wear a DD. Is that the same as E?

[LynzM]

9. Generally, yes

You should be able to switch DD for E, DDD for F, etc.

[Bassic]

10. This is such total crap.

How much do you want to bet these guys think the muslim veil is barbaric? (Clarification: I am not here expressing my personnal point of view on the veil, I am simply pointing out the potential discordance in these nuts' discourse.)

[vixengrl]

13. I wish I could say it was unbelieveable--but I believe it.

I clicked your post wondering if it was about it being *physically* bad--I remember from my first real job as a stock clerk in an office supply store being told in all seriousness by an older woman my "baby-works would drop" if I kept lifting the copy paper cases. That author sounds less informed than my long-ago advisor.

It's odd how "straightforward character, a scorn of lying and meanness, habits of obedience and command, and fearless courage," are suitable for men, but not women. (That's "manly* straightforward character"--the feminine character, perhaps, is bent.)I think I find the "it's so unfeminine and unattractive" comments the strangest--the "masculine" uniforms do come off, and so does the sweat.

And I have never had complaints about my muscles.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

17. OMG! I once had a director tell me my uterus would drop.

I damn near fell off the ladder laughing when she informed me that I shouldn't be lugging around heavy speakers, because my uterus would drop. Then she responded with, "you laugh now, but I did all those things when I was your age and that's why my uterus is around my knees now. Physical work is why I look like I do now."

Err..last time I checked, physical labor did not make people morbidly obese and my uterus hasn't dropped. So I'm not all that concerned.

[LeftyMom]

20. Apparently she never heard of kegels?

I had a customer who claimed to be a doctor tell me that physical labor while pregnant (I was standing there holding a largish microwave box while he lectured me) put me at risk for placenta previa. I informed him that not working put me at risk for starvation, and asked him if he wanted the damned microwave or if he just wanted me to stand there with it until my shift was over. :grr:

[vixengrl]

21. That's damn silly on his part--if he even was a doctor.

Shoot, most of my male customers seemed kind of sheepish watching me tote office furniture and whatnot into their cars for them--they did not lecture me while I held my heavy load. That sounds like one particular kind of dumbass. But I think some people just like telling women what's good for 'em--I'd've been mightily steamed. (especially if you were with young'un--"Well, jack-ass, carry your own damn appliance!")

:hi:

[Pool Hall Ace]

26. Oh, I've heard that one, too.

I was on a temp assignment during an office move. This woman, also a director, seemed very reasonable otherwise, but she kept instructing the females not to move heavy boxes because of the danger to our uteruses. Weird.

I have known two women who have had their uteruses fall out (or prolapse). One was a serious runner (another argument the fundies could use for women's non-participation in sports). The other was not athletic, so I don't know what caused it. Each woman had only given birth once, so it wasn't caused by rapid-fire pregnancies/childbirth. And both women continue to function just fine without that portion of the plumbing.

[sarge43]

23. "Ain't I a Woman?"

It was bs a hundred and fifty years ago and it's bs today.

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/sojtruth-woman.html

[MrScorpio]

22. When it comes to raising kids, I always refer to Bronze Age religious text

Who doesn't?

:shrug:

[cobalt1999]

24. Here's why my daughters run cross-country and track...

I'm thinking that after a good 10 mile run, they'll be too tired to get into any trouble. That's my hope anyway.

As the "the poor boys will have to do the chivalrous thing and forfeit! How traumatic for a boy to lose to a . . . a girl". My eldest is better than a lot of the boys and it's kind of funny to see them killing themselves not to let her beat them...she usually does too. What's wierd is both grandmothers frown on their granddaughters exercising hard (must be generational).

My confession here is my wife and I both run and do triathlons, and while she rarely beats me, but when it does happens, well, it is TRAUMATIC!

[MissMillie]

25. for a good sports bra (for a larger busted person)

google "Enell"

It truly is motion-less (in fact, I can't even slouch in mine). Expensive, but worth it.

[Pool Hall Ace]

27. Were you able to purchase from a brick & mortar store?

There are great reviews at amazon.com and of course wonderful testimonials on their site. I was wondering if their sizes are true to measurements.

Sounds like the price is worth it. Bouncing boobs hurt!

[MissMillie]

29. lol... just the regular enell.com

The sizing is true, at least it was for me.

[Left Is Write]

28. Uh oh. Does this mean I have to stop weight lifting?