Quote: (05-10-2011 07:50 PM)Chad Daring Wrote:
I dont want to start a debate about what is and isn't a sport, but one could argue that tennis, volleyball and ice skating are very woman tailored sports and therefore are a little more apt to having more feminine participants.
That's why I didn't include any examples from the more "feminine sports": precisely so no one could say, "oh, except
those sports. They
always have hot girls in them." But the truth is, they
are technically sports and those girls are
athletic.
As such, they should be included in the overall calculation, not selectively edited out because they don't support your "most female athletes are ugly butches" theory.
Quote: (05-10-2011 07:50 PM)Chad Daring Wrote:
I remember there being a point where Anna Kournikova wasn't doing shit as far as playing tennis went but she posed for a magazine and the whole jist of the article was about her being a hot tennis player
I agree that hot females (whether they're athletes or not) get more press coverage. There are millions of famous examples of this. I mean Sarah Palin, who's considered "hot" for a female politician, has milked that shit for like two years' worth of media exposure.
But, if you watch female college sports on TV, you'll see that the proportion of hot girls is way higher than your average pool of random chicks--even though their camps also include nasty, mannish members. Sure, it varies from sport to sport. The softball team is going to have manlier and uglier members overall, than, say, the women's cross-country team. But, in aggregate, I think my theory bears out.
I've had tons of experience in this area, but probably the best anecdotal evidence I can present is when I used to work out at the student gym at a PAC-10 college. The girls' teams, of various sports, would often walk through there on their way to their practices or to hit the showers. As much as half of the team was
smoking hot, several others were pretty damn cute. I also had a friend who used to go there and would get free tickets to sporting events that weren't sold out. We'd hit up the women's sports when we had nothing else to do and, again, the same thing: higher proportions of hot girls.
The natural question is: how many of these girls were then
feminine, apart from just being "hot"? Some walked out of those places in a well-coordinated, feminine outfits that they filled out nicely, with their blow-dried hair flowing down their backs or braided intricately, Eastern-European style. Others strutted out in a big team t-shirt, mesh shorts, and flip-flops, with their hair in a wet pony tail.
Again,
the problem wasn't their level of fitness, it was their understanding of femininity, the way they carried themselves, and their fashion sensibility
off the field.