Comments on: Lady Bloodlusting Mercenaries

By: Stephen

Stephen — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 07:51:16 +0000

Actually i believe in Indian mythology, it was not male gods who did the fighting.

It was the goddess such as Durgha and Kali who fought against ancient enemies demonizing as Asuras.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 21:43:41 +0000

No lady pirates? I don’t think so…
http://members.tripod.com/cathreese/DefiantWomen/pirates/

By: mk

mk — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 19:24:53 +0000

I coach a girl’s soccer team and we are the jaguars. Is that good? I can’t say that I ever thought about any gender-specific names.
THis article made remember all the school teams that were named the Spartans. Does anyone remember a girl’s team named the Spartans? Spartan women were, after all, famous for their physical prowess in ancient Greece.

By: PerpetualBeginner

PerpetualBeginner — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 03:25:38 +0000

My son’s school has the Pirates and the Lady Pirates – Pirates were never women, right?

In a perfect world I would go for the gender-neutral teams. I do think that consideration should be given to any person who wants to play on the team of the other gender for whatever reason. However having teams that are primarily intended for one gender or the other – at the very least through childhood and puberty, when size differences can be considerable – seems sensible to me.

By: Casey

Casey — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 01:15:13 +0000

that’s fucked up

By: Marla

Marla — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 20:44:53 +0000

There is catholic high school in Milwaukee (Pope Pius the somethingth) whose female teams are known as the “Lady Popes”. Wrong on many levels.

By: Twisty

Twisty — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 19:30:03 +0000

If Texas were the only place where you could find sexism I’d actually maybe consider leaving, almost.

By: Ledasmom

Ledasmom — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 09:42:00 +0000

I just found an account of a game between the “Lady Rams” and the “Lady Steers”. That last one is so stupid it kinda makes my brain hurt.

By: You need Other Magazine

You need Other Magazine — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 03:39:46 +0000

[...] Twisty Faster has a super-witty post up at “I Blame the Patriarchy” about women in sports: Lady Bloodlusting Mercenaries. First she works up a head of steam… “It’s no newsflash that nobody watches women’s sports on TV unless the “sport” involves premenstrual nymphet children in sparkle makeup and crack-crawler leotards. But that’s not even what I’m complaining about today.” She then mocks women’s basketball teams that have names like “The Lady Norsemen”. It’s not just a casual mocking – it’s thorough and lengthy… no sports team could survive its eagle-eyed scrutiny! [...]

By: Ms Kate

Ms Kate — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 03:37:46 +0000

My son’s soccer team, which I coached, was coed until they reach age 9. After that, they split things because the size differences between the boys and girls mean that the smaller boys take a real beating. Size is the biggest indicator of who will injure whom in a collision.

When a school was trying to bar a girl from playing high school hockey, this worked to her advantage in court. The judge was basically “how big is the average boy player” and “how big is she?” and so on. Then it was “so, based on what we know about injuries, you are trying to keep her out so she won’t hurt the boys?”. High school boy hockey players are not usually the biggest guys, since those guys play football and basketball. The girls who try out tend to be bigger than the boys. So, guess who will get hurt in a body check – the 5′9, 155 lb girl or the 5′7 135 lb boy?