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Originally Posted by Strange Famous
the point of feminism is not to give the right to women to compete in bikini's in a cage for the sexual titiliation of MMA's college aged male fanbase.
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Actually, that's the exact point of feminism (sans the
not). Give the women in society the right to choose their own course of life, not catering to the whims of authoritative "father figures", and disallowing the prejudices of higher society's limitations, telling them what they can and
cannot achieve in life.
Honestly, though, it's fine if MMA is not your ideal form of entertainment, or even if you find it barbaric; but to continue this flawed contention, and parading around supposed reasons as to why it should not be typified as a sport, such as them spotlighting former professional wrestlers, or having fledgling female combatants, is just not the way to truly argue the point. Cheap shots, hitting a man when he's down, battling within a cage, and constantly comparing it to boxing shows that you are trying to promote something or other, and only wish to disparage the rapid rise of what has nearly become an internationally-recognized and worldwide sport, with its popularity only set to rise even further.
I don't mean to liken this to you SF, but the way this thread has progressed, it hauntingly reminds me of
ESPN's tactic of not even recognizing or promoting MMA for the longest time, as if they were shunning its popularity, and just one unexpected Monday, they update their entire format and site to hop in on the bandwagon of MMA as if they were there from the beginning. Now, you, however, haven't progressed as far, but you sure don't want to admit how much striving went into the prodoct that the UFC and other leagues have gone through to make it to this point in the media spectrum. They toiled hard and long to be taken seiously as a sanctioned sport, and it should be no surprise at this marvel, seeing as how this form of contest was popular even centuries past, times of the original
Olympics, you know. it wasn't called "MMA", it probably wasn't even called 'wrestling', but it was as such a duel between two strong contestants, little to no holds barred, until there was a deciding victor. If that is not the base definition of
sporting, well, I don't know what you think is.