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"When we last discussed the Lingerie Football League, its very existence seemed pretty polarizing: Some of you thought it was great to have more women in sports, regardless of what they&amp;#39;re wearing, while other readers couldn&amp;#39;t get past the blatant objectification of the game&amp;#39;s players. Now that they&amp;#39;re hoping to expand to a much younger audience, I wonder what you ladies have to say about it?\nPinterestFacebookLAS VEGAS, NV - FEBRUARY 06: Ashley Salerno #8 Quarterback of the Los Angeles Temptations during a 26 - 25 win over the Philadelphia Passion at the Lingerie Football League&amp;#39;s Lingerie Bowl VIII at the Thomas &amp;amp; Mack Center at University of Las Vegas on February 6, 2011 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Leon Bennett/WireImage)\nPHOTO: WireImageBelieve it or not, the Lingerie Football League is hoping to start a youth division. Thankfully, there are no plans to dress young girls up in revealing outfits to throw around a pigskin, but still--the association with an organization that uses bras and underwear to make female sports seem more appealing is troubling, at best. As the League puts it (via Forbes.com), &amp;quot;The ceiling on women playing tackle football was formally shattered with the arrival of LFL football in 2009. With the growing popularity around the LFL, younger and younger girls are starting to dream of playing LFL football. In recent months and years, parents of young ladies routinely contact LFL league offices inquiring about everything ranging from what size football do you use to what form of training should I place my daughter into now to prepare her for LFL Football...&amp;#39;What excites us at the league is seeing the caliber of athletes improve so vastly each season, now imagine in five years when we start fielding athletes that have trained their entire life for the opportunity to play LFL Football&amp;#39;, said, Mitchell S. Mortaza, Founder &amp;amp; Chairman, Lingerie Football League, LLC.&amp;quot;\nFootball has definitely become an increasingly popular sport among girls--it was widely reported that Michael Jackson&amp;#39;s daughter Paris recently became the first female player on her school&amp;#39;s football team--but encouraging impressionable young women to emulate glorified strippers doesn&amp;#39;t seem like the way to get there (and in fact, Paris&amp;#39;s barrier-breaking triumph proves it doesn&amp;#39;t have to be). If you want to expand female involvement in professional sports, why not sponsor a mentoring program or begin a clinic in an underprivileged neighborhood, instead of pushing an over-sexualized agenda on girls who are already growing up way too fast?\nI&amp;#39;m so curious to hear what you ladies have to say about this topic. Do you think the LFL youth league is a badly misdirected plan, or a harmless way to give more girls confidence to play serious sports? Would you ever enroll your daughter? Do you think this is the wrong message to send young women? Discuss.\nEVEN MORE WTF-WORTHY NEWS!\n\nPadded socks for guys with skinny calves!?\n\n\nWho&amp;#39;s wearing $25,000 sunglasses?!\n\n- A gold sculpture of this supermodel sold for a cool mil\nMore Ways to Get Glamour:\nChat with celebs, VIP fashion stars, beauty pros and more on our Facebook page! Visit Facebook.com/glamour for this month&amp;#39;s schedule\nGet the latest fashion updates via Twitter on @glamour_fashion\nCheck out our chic Tumblr!\nRead Glamour magazine on your iPad&amp;#8212;print subscribers, it&amp;#39;s now part of your subscription plan!\nLike freebies? Enter the latest Glamour sweepstakes!\nSign up for our fashion and beauty newsletters to get easy style tips (it&amp;#39;ll make your inbox 10x sexier, we promise).\nAnd, did you know you can read glamour.com on your smart phone?! It&amp;#39;s the ultimate boredom buster.\nPhoto: Leon Bennett/WireImage\nWant even more STF? Follow us on Twitter!\nLatest Tweets!\nFollow us on Twitter!"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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