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kate's avatar

When I have suggested this to the men in my life, they look at me like I have six heads. I think the impulse is to assume that I feel this way because I was not sportsy and I am sour grapes. However, I cannot reconcile it with traditional Catholicism and I feel that competitive sports in particular fosters something in women that later manifests in destructive behaviors in their behaviors with men. Additionally, I have noticed a trend in local school sports where the female teams get praised and extolled and when the boy’s teams play its crickets.

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Sports make women hot. Look at female track and field athletes and skaters.

Even the women who don’t do sports benefit from positive examples. Which woman sees Yuliya Levchenko and Alica Schmidt and Isabeau Levito and doesn’t want to look like them?

The female body sculpted by running and dancing for years on end is the most beautiful thing on God’s green earth, and a Christian society has an absolute moral duty to encourage it to the maximum.

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