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Lingerie Football League Delegation The accompanying documents amply speak to the degradation, the exploitation and the cheapening of women as a result of Lingerie Football. The City signed an agreement with the U.S. based Global Spectrum to run the Abbotsford Entertainment and Sports Centre. Jason Blumenfeld is Global's hireling. The Contract presumably is a two-way thing. Global Spectrum profits, and the City of Abbotsford should profit too. The Contract contains a moral clause: Page 12, B MORAL CLAUSE "Licensee shall not use or attempt to use any part of the facility for any use or proposed use which would be contrary to law, common decency or good morals or otherwise improper or detrimental to the reputation of Licensor. " The contract with Global should have been terminated a long time ago. Global Spectrum gets paid, no matter how little money the AESC generates for the City, the tax-payers who must pay the loan and the interest on the borrowed money, as well as upkeep of the building. The money has not flowed both ways, as seen in the annual reports. Global Spectrum has not lived up to the promises made to us. Jason Blumenfeld is an American citizen, and an employee of a foreign company. No one in Abbotsford voted for him, or expects him to set policies that determine our moral compass. Jason Blumenfeld has no right to override the moral clause signed between the City and Global Spectrum. Our elected Mayor and Council have the authority and the duty to implement and enforce rules, regulations, and legally-signed contracts on behalf of the rest of the City. City staff, most certainly, cannot be held accountable for the lingerie debacle. The decision to allow a renter into our publicly-owned centre rests solely on the men and women who asked for and got the votes, that entitle them to govern our communal lives. Michel Mortaza's Lingerie Football League violates and is contrary to, "common decency or good morals or otherwise improper or detrimental to the reputation of Licensor. " To date no one has given me a written response to this obvious point. Much of the secular media calls Abbotsford, and the Fraser Valley, "the Bible Belt". Thousands of people in hundreds of churches, have legitimately confirmed that it really is a Bible-based community. Does anything about women in underwear, tackling each other and pulling away the scant bits of clothing they wear, belong in our public building? On something so obviously out of sync with the general value system in Abbotsford, you need to adhere to the contract you signed with Global Spectrum - both ways. I want this abuse of my tax-dollars, and the tarnishing of my/our building and community to stop. Gerda Peachey October emails from Bill Flitton: 1. Staff advises that the arrangement between Global Spectrum and the LFL is a rental agreement only and as such the facility charges a rental fee and LFL is responsible for all operational costs of the facility for the specific event. There is and there will be no agreement between the LFL and Global Spectrum in future years other than a rental arrangement, from to time, if the LFL chooses to schedule time at the facility. 2. As has been explained to you previously the City is not directly involved in contractual/rental discussions or negotiations with Global Spectrum and any its prospective tenants. Therefore, the City, at any given time, may not know the specifics of any upcoming events. Certainly Katie and I aren't notified of upcoming events. Nor do we typically follow the AESC calendar events, especially with the LFL. And, no we did not ask Global when the next LFL event was taking place Ten reasons why the Lingerie Football League sucks November 3,2011 tags: lingerie football league It's no secret that I find the Lingerie Football League completely repulsive. A lot of people do. The emphasis on the "lingerie" is a deliberate push-back against the ascendancy of female athletes by reminding them that, once again, their most important calling on this planet is to serve as spank material for hetero men. Because we as a society are totally deficient in spank material, amirite? But it turns out that the uniforms worn by the players are the least of what's wrong with the Lingerie Football League. I came across an article by Andrew Bucholtz at Yahoo! Sports Canada the other day, and, well, to say it was eye-opening is an understatement. My eyes were so wide open my eyeballs nearly rolled out oftheir sockets and landed with a thud on my desk. I was inspired to go do some more digging around and what emerged was a horrifying portrait of an organization with no concern for matters like safety, an organization built entirely on the exploitation of female athletes. I was seriously repulsed by what I came across, and I'm going to share it on my blog because I think it's important that feminists know that the sins of the LFL do not begin and end at those tacky uniforms they make the athletes wear. 1. Those uniforms. My god, the uniforms. Have you ever touched Astroturfbefore? It's not pleasant. Can you imagine playing full-tackle football on it? Can you imagine playing full-tackle football on it while wearing a bikini? The epic amounts of turf burn those women must experience on a regular basis makes me wince just thinking about it. And evidently the women themselves are not the biggest fans ofthe uniforms. Angela Rypien, the quarterback for the Seattle Mist, recently said on Fox News that she would like to wear a less-revealing uniform one day. But hey, as long as straight dudes can have as many places to ogle ass and titties as they want, who cares? Right, Gretchen Carlson? 2. And the names of the teams! A commenter in the afore-linked Jezebel post said the names sound like they were thought up by "Danielle Steele after five wine spritzers." I-mean, the Mist? The Seduction? The Sin? These are women who are crushing each other on the field, and yet the teams' marketers are treating them like commercials for Designer Imposters perfumes. 3. The athletes don't get paid. This should actually be tJ.?e top ofthe list, because oh my god. The players are not paid; their compensation is limited to travel expenses. This, despite the fact that the league officials say the LFL has been "highly profitable." There's a word for this people, and that word is "exploitation. " When I learned about this, I was reminded of Amanda Hess's article about the Washington Redskins cheerleaders. The cheerleaders are part of the squad at considerable personal expense, and their images are licensed for merchandising by the NFL for calendars and such. How much of the NFL's multi-billion dollar pie do these women get? About $75 per game. This was evidently not always the case. The players originally received a cut of net revenue, but the commissioner changed the league to "amateur status" in 2011, which exempts the LFL from having to pay them. What's more, the players now have to pay to participate. 4. The league management uses union-busting tactics on the players. When players for the Toronto Triumph expressed dismay about the firing ofthe only member of the coaching staff with pro football experience, the league commissioner responded with threats to fire the players who complained. The rest of the team called his bluff, and ultimately 22 of the team's 26 players quit. Now that's some fucking female solidarity. Here's the email exchange between the league commissioner and some of the players. I particularly like how the commish brags that the LFL is the most popular women's sports league in the US. *gag* 5. The league has threatened to sue players for asking about health coverage and wages. This is a sport where the players get seriously hurt. They break bones and tear ACLs and separate joints, and yet the league doesn't provide them with health coverage? Even though the league is "highly profitable" because of these women and their willingness to get hurt? Can you imagine if the NFL told their players, Sorry bro, I know you ripped your knee to shreds for the pleasure of a national audience, but you're on your own with that one. And then not only doesn't cover them, but then threatens to sue them just for bringing it up. 6. Players say the league provides subpar equipment. Deborah Poles, who played for the Chicago Bliss and was once the league's defensive player of the year, said the league cut costs wherever they could - including the protective gear for the players: "We were sustaining really severe turfburns ... because we had basically elbow pads and knee pads that you could just buy at the dollar store," said Poles, who added that she got a staph infection from the burns after the league's championship game last February. When you don't pay your players, skimp on their gear and refuse to provide them with health coverage - well, it's no wonder the league is "highly profitable," right? 7. The players are set up to be physically violated and sexually exposed for the audience's entertainment. The Toronto Triumph recently held a contest in which the winner was given the privilege of tackling one of the players at half-time. Need I say more? Okay, I will. The contract signed by the LFL players said the athletes cannot wear anything beneath the uniforms, like underwear or bras, because the "accidental nudity" is enshrined as part of their contractual obligations.
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