Female Boxing

This entry may end up being a rant more than anything.

Early this evening, UFC fights on prime time television featured the fights of female MMA fighter Gina Carano. I spent 8 years of my adolescent playing baseball and holding my own with a large number of very unwelcoming boys, so I applaud any woman trying to make her way into an male dominated arena. Gina Carano is a powerful talented fighter.

Yet, the assholes I live with thought it would be appropriate to sexualize everything she did in the fight. 30 seconds into the fight I was so fed up with their "yeah baby"s and "take your shirt off" I called them idiots and left the room.

Venting aside my point is this: even though female boxers are a powerful example of strong women, men still managed to reduce their training and preparation and work down to a cat fight between girls. One of the announcers said, the girl Gina was fighting pulled her hair and laughed.

I am crazy to think that most men’s reaction to female boxing is similar to this, just some fucking sex scene in a bad porn for their entertainment. Why can’t female athletes bodies be respected for their talent and not just their sexual capacity. Why are so many men so afraid of talented female athletes?