Just rambling thoughts on women’s soccer. Like many other women’s sports, women’s soccer is not just a form of entertainment, but a noble political cause in itself. To play, to watch, to root for and to cover the games in media all are acts of noble political cause that elevate the status of women in sports and the agenda of feminism. The better the quality of the game, the more fans pack the stadium, the more viewers tune in, the more coverage it gets in the press, the standing of the women’s soccer increase vis-à-vis men’s soccer and in the whole sports. Thus ensues mainstream media’s understandable (in a politically-correct atmosphere) rush to exhort plays in the Women’s World Cup, when most of the male soccer fans know the level of play is quite dismal, (especially those of keepers), give more-than-deserved time in TV broadcast and space in printed papers, and treat some of the female players like true heroes who should be treated in the same vain as way as male star players. It’s all about equality, isn’t it?
Equally rampant are self-congratulations about how the sport is growing, how it help’s girls’ self-esteem, how it empowers women, how it help defy gender stereotypes, etc. etc. all the usual litany of feminists' hyperboles. At the same, interestingly enough, when the women’s sport is supposedly doing superb, media also wail on the sorry state of the sport, e.g. how it is held in low regard, how little support it gets from sport’s association compared to male counterparts, how little (or none) they are being paid, etc. etc., - this is where feminists' adrenaline and their man-hating instincts kicks in, and blast about how the male-dominated soccer associations in many countries, media, fans and society at large discriminate against women and girls.
Watching soccer on TV is not relaxing activities that you can enjoy while slouching in your couch on weekends. That is, when you watch women’s soccer. The experience might not be as relaxed and enjoyable, as you are constantly bombarded with female commentators’ political agitprops about the greatness of women’s game, and the plays you see on TV should rather belong to high school sports, but at least you can take comfort in the fact that you are participating in a noble act of empowering women, taking part in feminists’ crusade against men and patriarchy.
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Feminists' agenda in World Cup Soccer 2006
On 3 Janury, the National Public Radio (NPR) reported about a story on the World Cup Soccer which will be held in Germany this summer. Their story? Prospect for US team in the tournament? A favorite to win the tournament? No way. Don’t forget that this is left-wing, very, very politically correct NPR. They reported on the ongoing efforts, led by German feminists, to stop forced prostitution during the World Cup. The first thing that came to my mind when I heard this story was the Superbowl hoax. Remember this hoax? – a hoax which held that during the Superbowl Sundays, instances of domestic violence increase dramatically.
Feminists tend to bring this kind of hoax up at regular intervals. The cycle goes like this - one hoax with phony facts and half-truths, much celebrated and promoted by major media is debunked by responsible media and people (but get much lesser attention by the original hoax), and eventually fade away from people’s collective memory, only to be followed by yet another hoax. But major sporting events are their favourite time to launch phony campaign- and there are a few reasons for this.
First, gender feminists don’t like major sporting events – unless of course it is women’s event. They cannot stand the fact that much spotlight is falling on men, their “potential batterer” and “potential rapists”. In their mind, men should be at home doing housework in sitting in prison attending sexual harassment courses.
Second, it is good opportunity to promote their cause. Major sporting events, especially the one like the World Cup soccer, the world’s biggest sporting event surpassing even Olympics, attract eyes and ears of literally billions of people worldwide. Why not link you pet cause to the event and raise your profile? You don’t need an advice of expensive ad agency to realize the potential advertising or “awareness-raising” value of the World Cup. Feed NPR with press releases approach media representatives, and hijacking of world’s biggest sporting events with your pet cause, at least within the elite circle who listens to NPR on regular basis, is complete.
Third, feminists cannot accept deep down prostitution, which was legalized in Germany two years ago. (do I need to mention that many gender feminists cannot stand the notion of intimate and happy relationship between male and female?) To circumvent the fact that prostitution is legalized, gender feminists have changed tactics and now focuses on “forced prostitution”. While such forced labor is unethical and illegal and thus need to be prevented, as one of their sister feminist inadvertently admitted it, it constitutes only a tiny fraction of prostitution in Germany. Gender feminists’ overemphasis on this issue reveals their true intent.
Feminists tend to bring this kind of hoax up at regular intervals. The cycle goes like this - one hoax with phony facts and half-truths, much celebrated and promoted by major media is debunked by responsible media and people (but get much lesser attention by the original hoax), and eventually fade away from people’s collective memory, only to be followed by yet another hoax. But major sporting events are their favourite time to launch phony campaign- and there are a few reasons for this.
First, gender feminists don’t like major sporting events – unless of course it is women’s event. They cannot stand the fact that much spotlight is falling on men, their “potential batterer” and “potential rapists”. In their mind, men should be at home doing housework in sitting in prison attending sexual harassment courses.
Second, it is good opportunity to promote their cause. Major sporting events, especially the one like the World Cup soccer, the world’s biggest sporting event surpassing even Olympics, attract eyes and ears of literally billions of people worldwide. Why not link you pet cause to the event and raise your profile? You don’t need an advice of expensive ad agency to realize the potential advertising or “awareness-raising” value of the World Cup. Feed NPR with press releases approach media representatives, and hijacking of world’s biggest sporting events with your pet cause, at least within the elite circle who listens to NPR on regular basis, is complete.
Third, feminists cannot accept deep down prostitution, which was legalized in Germany two years ago. (do I need to mention that many gender feminists cannot stand the notion of intimate and happy relationship between male and female?) To circumvent the fact that prostitution is legalized, gender feminists have changed tactics and now focuses on “forced prostitution”. While such forced labor is unethical and illegal and thus need to be prevented, as one of their sister feminist inadvertently admitted it, it constitutes only a tiny fraction of prostitution in Germany. Gender feminists’ overemphasis on this issue reveals their true intent.
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