Lingerie Football - a league for libertarians

The nationwide ten-team Lingerie Football league, an offshoot of the pay-per-view Lingerie Bowls played opposite Super Bowl halftimes, has captured the attention (or the libido) of sports fans in the Dallas area.

The Dallas Desire, suited up in their blue and white bikini uniforms, kicked off its opening game against the Denver Dream Friday night (September 25, 2009) at QuikTrip Park in Grand Prairie.

There has to be a reason (besides the obvious) why a male libertarian opinionizer, normally known for spouting perspectives on political, social and cultural issues, would be writing about flimsily-outfitted female footballers.

And there is. It's to point out to one and all that, among everything else that can and has been said on the subject, half-naked glam girls running about on a field in front of male fans, tossing their hair and their footballs about, is very much a part of the culture wars.

You know without even looking that radical feminists have already checked in with their take on the sport. To them, this is blatant male chauvinistic victimization at it worst, in which innocent women are sexually objectified by being induced to parade their bodies in near nudity to satisfy the lecherous fantasies of a male dominated society.

And you can guess what the cultural right is saying. The league is symptomatic of the assault against traditional Godly American patriotic family values that lure innocent women away from their wholesome nurturing roles as wives and mothers and daughters and keepers of the flame of chastity.

It would never occur to the expounders of these twin extreme memes that the risqué quarterbacks and the sexy safeties and the tantalizing tacklers of the LFL might actually be free-willed individual human persons perfectly capable of making their own decisions and value judgments and life choices.

That they might, in fact, fit right in with a libertarian cultural view that celebrates individual freedom and personal responsibility.

These players are people, not the mere stereotypes of somebody else's ideology.

(For you guys who watched the game but didn't notice or even care, the Desire won 20-6.)