It's been a while. Internship has been busy and rewarding. But I didn't come on here to talk about internship. Daniel's watching a football game. I saw the following:

1. A truck being sold with women in sports bras and low-rise high-cut skirts sitting on the edge of the car. A man talked about the truck. The women waved and smiled.

2. Some other guy (middle-aged white man) talking about some football prize, with cheerleaders beside him, waving, nodding occasionally, and smiling. They don't say anything.

Like. Pardon my French, but c'est quoi ce bordel?

I understand that we're taught to behave in certain ways, but come on, do we have to be so obvious about it? Why do women agree to be objects used to help sell stuff who don't have opinions or feelings -- just bouncing breasts and white teeth? I know that not all cheerleaders are dummies, but it's hard for me to believe that anyone who subjects herself to be a flexible, tumbling object in a small, tight suit whose purpose is for men to look at (whenwhen the sports game isn't in play) has a lot of self-respect. 

I mean, I want to look sexy too. Don't we all? We're entitled to that. But girls, please, stop selling yourselves as stupid thoughtless smiling objects that appear here and there to make men feel better about themselves (nod, smile smile smile) and to help sell things. 

Reasons to not like professional sports:
---hypermasculinity
---anti-gay
---promoting violence (some, not all) in an already violent-obsessed culture
---ignoring women
---promoting women as things who help to sell things, or who you can watch when the "important things" aren't going on 

And that's not even bringing in any financial BS that I could go on about and have gone on about before.

Maybe if the sports players were chosen for their weight-categories and abilities and not gender (or sexual orientation), and they got paid an average salary, and they got rid of the ones that promote brain-damage, I would concur with all the team-player arguments.