September 10, 2007
Britney’s Booty and Other Rants
It’s been a while since I let off some steam, so I thought I’d let you know the things that are on my nerves as of late. Please feel free to share your thoughts as well.
Britney Spears
I was at a wedding reception last night, so I missed what is being called a train wreck of a comeback. Yes, I’m talking about Britney Spears. Let’s first get something straight. I am no fan of Britney Spears, but I was curious as to how her opening performance at MTV’s VMA awards was going to go. I went to MTV’s website and watched it for myself, after reading several scathing reviews on various news venues. While I agree that her lip syncing was completely off, and that her dance moves lacked any sort of motivation or get-up-and go, I am highly annoyed at those out there talking about the state of her body. That 25-year old train wreck has had two children in the past two years and she was on TV in a bikini. No, she’s not as cut as she used to be. Yes, she has a bit more of a booty, but cut the girl a break already! She’s had two kids and she looks THAT good!?! To quote John Stossel, "Give me a break!"
Boys and Field Hockey
I read an article in my local newspaper about a problem with field hockey in my county. Apparently, there are some schools who are allowing boys onto the girls field hockey teams. Because of this, certain schools are putting in place policies that state that their all girls hockey teams will forfeit to any team with boys playing, rather than have their girls risk injury playing in a game against boys. Last year, one of the local schools had three girls get injured during a single game against a team who had several boys playing. One of the girls even required stitches.
Now, if you know anything about field hockey, you know that there are strict rules against making body contact. Field hockey can be a very rough sport (Ask my still bruised up shins if you don’t believe me), but the injuries usually come from high sticks, and/or the ball. Apparently, it’s becoming more of a contact sport with the boys on the team.
Here’s my take on the whole thing. If boys want to play field hockey, great; but get your own team. I think it is ridiculous that boys are being allowed to play on a girls field hockey team while there are able-bodied girls sitting on the bench. If a team doesn’t have enough players, that’s one thing; but sitting girls on the bench in order to play boys is not at all fair. If Big I or Lil C ever play field hockey and a boy plays ahead of either of them, I’m going to have a serious problem with that.
While I’m all for equal rights, there are more sports for boys than there are for girls. Cheerleading does not count as a sport. (Don’t even argue with me on this one, because I am a former cheerleader. Extracurricular "activity" I’ll give you. Sport? No). There is no valid reason for allowing boys to start taking over spots that should belong to girls on a girls team. It’s not like the boys don’t have plenty of their own sports.
Studies have shown that playing sports is highly beneficial for the self-esteem of girls. Good self-esteem helps to keep girls out of bad situations: drugs, teenage pregnancy, excessive drinking, to name just a few. I don’t think that allowing boys to play on a girls team does anything to promote girls confidence, which is what girls sports are intended to do.
When a bunch of girls at my high school decided it would be fun to play football, we rounded up enough girls to make a team and set up a game with another school who did the same. If the boys want to play, they should get their own team, plain and simple.
Fantasy Football
For those of you who don’t know what it is, here are a couple definitions for you. The first one is courtesy of wiki:
Fantasy Football is a fantasy sports game in which participants (called "owners"), arranged into a league, each draft or acquire via auction a team of real-life American football players and then score points based on those players’ statistical performance on the field. A typical fantasy league will employ players from a single football league, such as the NFL or an NCAA division. Leagues can be arranged in which the winner is the team with the most total points at the end of the season, or in a head-to-head format (which mirrors the actual NFL) in which each team plays against a single opponent each week. At the end of the year, win-loss records determines league rankings or qualification into a playoff bracket. Most leagues set aside the last weeks of the regular season for their own playoffs.
Here’s my definition:
Fantasy Football is the equivalent of banging your head against a brick wall on a continual basis with emphasis placed on Sunday’s. "Owners" choose a starting line-up and then watch their bench-goers get twice as many points as any of their starters which subsequently makes them wonder why they ever thought playing fantasy football would be fun in the first place. Fantasy Football is an exercise in anger management like no other, where "owners" must either learn to deal with their anger appropriately or suffer a fantasy football related aneurysm.
Examples: BBM chooses to play Ladainian Tomlinson and Maurice Jones-Drew as her starting running backs for week one. LT scores 19 fantasy points. Maurice Jones-Drew scores 3 fantasy points. Adrian Peterson (sitting on my bench) scores 29 fantasy points. Don’t get it? Here’s another one for you: Marc Bulger scores 13 fantasy points. My bench QB, Ben Roethlisberger scores 32 fantasy points. Want another one? Here you go: Vince Young scores 9 fantasy points, while my benched QB Jake Delhomme scores 27 fantasy points. Think that’s bad? My opponent’s starting QB, Drew Brees scores 1 point while his bench QB Tony Romo scores 42 points. He’s still probably going to beat me, which makes me even more irritated.
Deep breath BBM, deep breath. . .
Feel free to post your thoughts, but keep it respectful or your comment will stay in the cave.
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I choose to stay out of fantasy football. Just watching the games is nervewracking enough for me!
I’m with you on boys playing on girl’s teams. Just the simple fact that boys are usually bigger and more aggressive is a recipe for disaster.
Ditto on the Brittany thing. I was FURIOUS when I watched the video having heard how she had “let her body go.” No wonder the teenage generation suffers from eating disorders, depression, and anxiety. What a great message we are sending our youth-you have to be “taut” (as the one newscast was saying) in order to be attractive. God forbid we celebrate the female body the way it is supposed to be! Grrrr….Wish that my body looked that way!
I think it’s a dumb song and she could have made a much better comeback, but her body is NOT lacking. There are 25 year olds that would *kill* to have a body like hers, especially after two kids!
***This comment was edited to take out most of the rude insults. No words were added-only taken away.***
My niece played for 4 years in high school in the late 90’s. Even then one of the moms pointed out that it had become much more aggressive over the previous decade because of the push to make girls strong, faster, and tougher. At that point there were no boys in the league and none had even tried to play as far as I know. So yes, the gentile sport is waning. That’s not the boys fault, but an offshoot of making girls more intense athletes.
Next, where you say boys have plenty of their own sports. In most states, boys have NO sports of their own. Football? Every state has at least a few girls playing. Basketball? Some schools have let a girl play on the boys team, even if they have a girls team because she’s just better than the rest of the girls. As far as I can tell, the only exception is wrestling – in three states, WA, TX, and HI. Think about that. A boy can get a detention or worse for sexually harassing a girl by looking at her, but then that girl can go grope the boy on the mat. In most cases Feminists and Media hail her as a hero for doing it. Boys in many states forfeit even state championship tournament matches rather than be sexually harassed by a girl because they all decree she has as much right to be there as they do, even though wrestling is a male sport and the fees are charged against the boys for Title IX bean counters. So why should girls have their spots protected at all costs when boys can’t even protect their own bodies?
Not only that, because of Title IX quotas, boys are responsible for getting girls to come out and play. There was a boy in MI that immigrated from Belgium. Being from Europe, he expected to play FH just as he had before. His school did not allow him to play. He would have to get a boys team together, then since he wanted a new boys team, because of Title IX, he’d have to persuade enough girls to make a girls team in something else. Then he’d have to find other boys to play, and then find girls at THEIR schools to match up for Title IX. So if that one boy wanted to play a girls sport, he’d be responsible for upwards of 200 kids. If a girl wants to play a boys sport (except in those three states) she shows up for try outs. She’s responsible for herself, that’s it.
As for saving spots, my god son started playing field hockey at 8. He’s played 5 seasons in 2 years, often doubling up on leagues for more time. Since it’s not the most popular sport, many girls pick it up later and many don’t even come out until high school. Do you mean to tell me you think it’s fair that he is banned from the team even though he knows the game better than the girls and has actually put the time and effort into it and enjoys it? Or are you saying he should have NEVER been allowed to participate because of his gender? It’s a non-contact sport. If you make the assumption that boys are bigger and more aggressive, then the converse that girls are too small and too passive to compete with the boys in any sport would follow.
By the way, my godson is the smallest kid on his 4th grade FH team. People say that “boys are usually bigger” and therefore no boys should be allowed to participate don’t understand simple 6th grade math. It’d be like me saying, men on average are better with math therefore we can discount any stats or numbers that are generated by a woman. Sounds sexist doesn’t it? By the way, my wife is an engineer.
If you don’t what your daughters playing with the boys, keep them at home. Believe it or not, they will be expected to work, talk, and compete with boys. How do they get through gym class or even make it down the halls at school with out those mean, evil, hulking boys steamrolling them into pulp on the tile? Really, we’re not all that bad. At least most of us aren’t as mean spirited, sexist and ignorant as you came across in that little “boys are bad and have too much” rant.
For the record, I think they should remove the quota guidelines in Title IX. It should be based on interest and both genders should have cross over ability except in the case of wrestling and possibly water polo.
We are getting too obese as a nation to allow political Feminist, fear mongering moms, or chauvinistic men to prohibit kids from activity based on their gender.
By the way, as for boys being more aggressive, I’m not the one holding weapons.
***And in an email to me later. . . “But you’re just a woman, what would you know about sports, math, logic or being responsible for what you say?”
Aaron Matthews-maer568@yahoo.com***
Yeah, poor Britney. However, these girls put themselves out there for everyone to see, so I guess you just have to take what’s said, hmm? And then let it go. Personally, I’m pretty bored with the whole lot of them!
As for the field hockey, yes, boys get your own team!! I, too, was a player (bumpy shins unite!) and it did get pretty rough. I even broke a girls thumb once. Boys really need to have their own with this one.
I’m with you. I couldn’t believe they were cutting up Britney’s body. Most women would kill to look like that after having 2 kids.
Aaron: I never said it was a gentle sport. In fact, I said it was a “rough sport.” I played in the early 90’s and then coached in the late 90’s.
Regarding wrestling, so only the girls are making any sort of body contact with a boy during a wrestling match? Sorry, but you lost me on this one.
Regarding the boy who came from Belgium, it’s really not all that difficult to start your own team. Like I said, the girls and I did it in high school.
If boys want to play FH, great! But, I stick by my original opinion which is that they should have their own teams. Maybe initially, all the interested boys in an area get together and create teams that have players from a combination of schools. As the sport grows, the number of teams can grow as well.
“. . . both genders should have cross over ability except in the case of wrestling and possibly water polo”. . . And you’re saying that I’m being gender-biased! In the school district I went to, the girls had their own water polo team. At first they had to travel very far to play games, but now it’s growing in popularity. So, we can’t disallow boys from playing field hockey, but you think girls should be disallowed from wrestling and water polo. You lost me again.
As far as obesity goes, I don’t see our nation’s obesity problem being directly related to boys not being able to play FH. Like I said, there are plenty of other sports for them out there or they can start their own team.
As far as your last comment goes, you obviously have no clue what the martial arts is all about.
Hi – came in from Tish’s BlogsWeLuv site, and really am enjoying your site.
I’ve played Fantasy Football for years, and know how frustrating it can be. Especially when you play your wife on the first week and LOSE by a freakin’ 4 points….:( If Edge had gotten one more TD, or Tony Romo had gotten one less…I woulda won!!!
Ok, I’m mad again 😉
Anyway, I’ll visit often!
I agree with everything you’ve posted here BBM. The idea of a boy wanting to play a sport on a team comprised of all females doesn’t make sense to me regardless of the situation. If there is a need for a boys field hockey team and it doesn’t work with the high school per Title IX, a club team from the area can be created. I know it sounds like reverse discrimination but I’d be ticked as well if my daughter lost a spot on team because a boy thought it would be a good idea to break the sport/gender barrier.