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Do Hot Girls Help or Hinder Women's Sports?

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(Editor's Note: Sexualizing female athletes is a favorite pastime of media outlets and male sports fans. Does it help or hurt women's sports? The Rabbit Hole takes a look. ~js)

 

Gina Carano. Anna Kournikova. Gabrielle Reece. Julia Mancuso. Jennie Finch. I give you the hot girls of their respective sports. All have considerable athletic resumes but they also receive(d) equal, if not more, attention for their looks win or lose. The question I pose here is - do attractive and SUCCESSFUL female athletes help promote a positive image for female sports or do they further hinder female sports by turning them into spectacles for drooling men?

 

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nellewrites 6 pts

No way. I file that in with blaming a rape victim because of her clothing choices. All women who play sports, watch them, and encourage their daughters or other women to play help. We are in this together, and to single out or filter out some because of appearance, no thank you.

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QiSoftware 5 pts

I think they help. They draw crowds which [in my opinion] can only help the sport.

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