Elizabeth Lambert, a defender on the University of New Mexico's women's soccer team, pulled an opponent to the ground by her hair, an act that resulted in her indefinite suspension. The New York Times highlighted the fact that women's soccer is largely ignored in its headline For All the Wrong Reasons, Women’s Soccer Is Noticed. This is representative of women's sports in general. They simply are not received as well as men's sports. There are clearly countless feminists arguments as to why, but what's interesting is the way female athletes make front-page news. Call me overly-sensitive, but it just seems that we only care about the world of female athletics when those athletes behave in a way that has been deemed unfitting behavior for a lady.
http://www.newsy.com/videos/soccer_violence_from_head_butts_to_hair_pulls
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