OK, so sufficient padding to prevent injury sounds like one of those rules open to local league interpretation, I get that.
And I had no idea athletic supporters were required for boys. Actually I have no idea why you’d require athletic supporters. What difference does it make what kind of underwear you’re wearing if you’re not wearing a cup. Not getting the logic there.
They serve a useful purpose in theory; they keep you from injury induced by bouncing & jangling too much while running & jumping.
Aha! Sorry, it isn’t in the Little League rulebook but rather our Safety Plan which contains various excepts from the rulebook. Our league has added this requirement to prevent injuries.
My apologies, I assumed they were one in the same.
Our local hockey league does require pelvic protectors for females though.
They also keep them from being pulled, twisted, or crushed.
Testicular torsion, damage to the scrotum, vas deferens, etc.
I’m going out on a limb here due to my limited knowledge of English, and assuming that an “athletic supporter” is the same thing as a jockstrap. With that assumption, if you look upthread in post #53, you can read:
Not all women have hymens, and most aren’t that thick as you seem to think. Otherwise you’d have problems when you get your period.
That and obviously, if a woman’s not a virgin, she won’t have one.
Sorry to hear I’m not the only one who had that highly painful experience.
My nieces wear pelvic protectors for playing hockey and rugby. And I stay away from certain bicycles.
Nope. It’s feels more like injuring your tailbone than it does fleshy bits. At least falling on the crossbar of a bike felt much like falling on my tailbone roller skating.
Yes, it felt like a bone bruise and I could feel it for a couple of weeks.
There was an issue in the news back in the 1970s… after Title IX had been passed but before it got really implemented… I can’t remember any of the specific details like who, where, when. A girl tried out for her high school baseball team, which had only boys. She played well enough to qualify but ran into opposition from the male PTB. They tried to keep her off the team because the rules required wearing a cup, and cups for girls did not exist. She made an issue of it and had feminists supporting her, which is how it got into the news. I think she eventually made it onto the team.
Anyway, to mock the sexist discrimination she posed for a newspaper picture holding a teeny tiny teacup from a doll’s house, LOL.
Yes, a female should wear a cup anytime their penis and testicles might be put in dangerous situation.
i take it ur a male its just as painful for a female to get kicked/hit in the groi as it is for males.
its just females dont get kicked as much as males do
yes im female and yes i have been kicked in the groin and yes i went down and yes i lost my breath
How do you know that’s it’s just as painful for a female?
You’re willfully misunderstanding the fact that in American English, the word “tackle” is used in the sport of soccer to refer to several different ways of trying to gain possession of the ball from the opponent, all legal under the rules that govern soccer/football throughout the world. These “tackles,” as we call them, are not the same as a rugby/American football tackle. And soccer tackles involve physical contact, no matter what league or what the term or what the country. It’s also legal to go shoulder-to-shoulder with an opposing player when contesting the ball in an attempt to gain better position.
Now, perhaps you can offer some information on the OP?
You are responding to a post from 5 years ago.
After half a decade, it’s possible that the OP is now better informed and/or no longer cares. Sic transit curiositas mundi.
:smack: Sorry all. I try not to do that, but, you know, sometimes someone on the Internet is WRONG…
Do female zombies wear a cup? Do they need to?
Okay, since this thread has come up again after all these years, perhaps we can take the opportunity to update it with the related question for these current times: And that is: Do transgender players (for various values of transgender) wear, or need to wear, a cup?
People who have external genitalia to protect will want to wear a cup to protect it. A trans man who has a penis will want to protect it during sports just like a man who was born with a penis. A transwoman who has a vagina will probably not need to protect it during sports, just like a woman who was born with a vagina.
well, if you’d spent all that money on surgery for the area, you might be more inclined to want to protect it.
I used to play women’s rugby in college. We were much more concerned about heavily padded very restrictive bras than our crotches. If you try to kick/hit/throw a ball at a woman’s crotch, it hits the padded pubic bone, not the delicate bits below that. Can be painful, but no more than being hit elsewhere; in fact, from experience, I think being kicked in the shins hurts more. in order to get the delicate bits you’d kind of have to knock the woman down to the ground, spread her legs, and kick with careful aim and even then I doubt it would be anything like what a man experiences when kicked in the balls. Woman’s balls are way deep inside the abdomen.