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Originally Posted by Sublime76
This version of MMA has very limited, vastly non-brutal knockouts and features fighters that 99% of the MMA audience won't find the least bit intimidating to them. The fighters therefore won't really be respected by the masses as a warrior or a fighter but as a sexual delusion in a cage with a secondary marketing goal of attracting female viewers to the mma audience.
Im not being sexist, I promise you Im objective to females Im merely being 100% brutally honest. Carano's not a great fighter for female standards even. Everything I hear on this girl is if she wasn't hot people would be saying "Gina who?". Not a top Female performer but as long as they feed her tomato cans for fan fair purposes they will make her look good and try and promote female mma. I worry what kind of bad press will come of it for MMA if it gets too big. God forbid we have a situation where we have a girl crying and bloody after being beat down in a fight and we have this girls bloody face (originally on CBS) on the likes of CNN and have jackasses like Bill O'Reilly jumping on the oppertunity to take a cheep shot at the sport. (The fighter probably crying out of disappointment rather than pain, men have done it a lot in MMA). In my opinion it only serves as a stop block to legalizing MMA across the United States. People will see it as the poor girl she shouldn't be fighting in a cage! Im all for female sports and Im for females competing in mma if they wish, I just think its going to be bad for the MMA image.
Also the TS posted the comment of girls of the age of 6-12 years old being inspired by these fighters as a good thing. I think that girls or boys for that matter at the age of 6-12 shouldn't be subjected to cage fighting and then encouraged to become a "cage fighter". I think this is all kinds of a bad idea. A 6 year old shouldnt even be watching MMA let alone the pre-teen middle school gangs going around breaking everyones arms on the playground. I think this is most definitly a sport catagorized as an ADULT sport reguardless of gender. So lets not get carried away with inspiring 6 year old girls to be cage fighters now.
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Yeah, the masses or a majority might see it that way so what? So fems should be denied on that basis? 99%? I dunno how big or trained you are but 99% shows you don't know enough female fighters to say that.
Giving into a sexist thinking and
acquiescing to those in the wrong, next step - you might as well be sexist yourself, so its NOT an option. While it may be inappropriate and not completely analagous, you worrying about FeMMA hindering and potentially dangerous to MMA reminds me of some early Civil Rights promoters suggesting or promoting only minority males get their rights, and fems can wait till the masses get more accepting of it.
Once again, you don't know enough FeMMA if you think Evinger, Kedzie and Young are cans. Hell, they're far better than Baslzer's last 3 opponents and LaRosa's last one, and this fight on the 31st is touted as helping determine who is the best standup fighter, a kind of "battle for the future". So yeah, if Carano wasn't pretty they(fans of FeMMA not detractors and sexist deniers like yourself) would be saying who's this girl sorta like they do for Sarah Kaufman or Kaitlin Young.
6-12 year olds, OK. But Gina, according to testimonials from her interviews, has inspired age appropriate fems and that should certainly be praised.
