10/14/2020
9,000% False.
The now-defunct Ax Muay Thai and Kickboxing forum is a great place to find some relics of Muay Thai history. While browsing it for research, I came across this 2003/04 thread, entitled "𝗗𝗼 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝗪𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗙𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁?" The responses (of which there were MANY) gave me some really good laughs, as well as countless eye rolls. Here are some of the most outrageous ones:
💩"I hate to see hot woman get battered around! (please not the face.. NOT THE FACE!) but its good to see a good scrap between woman..... just don't get ugly because of it."
💩"I do not care to see a women's fight either in mma because it appears much more brutal for whatever reason and not so feminine."
💩"It just aint chilvarous to stand around and watch our fairer s*x smash each other. They are our girlfriends, wives, daughters, they are mothers. It's not manly to applaud their suffering and I wince when I see a stunned girl turn involntarily away from a volley of head shots."
💩"I never saw the attraction in female fights, perhaps its value is one of morbid facination. I'm not saying we should stop the girls from gloving up but maybe suggest self defence, kick-fit or a kata based martial art."
💩"i prefer to watch women fight low kick kickboxing bouts :P
they look great in the thai shorts and thge kickboots
very s*xy :)"
💩"Women are made for loving not fighting"
💩"I dont have any problems with women fighting, but i would not pay to see it"
💩"I think its a case of mens bits being compact enough to protect with a metal cup, whereas females would need some kind of body armour. Its a purely practical consideration. Although (as I said) this consideration is only valid if there is indeed a risk to a womans baby making equipment when fighting MT and guess there is no evidence for this (yet)?"
💩"I think on the Whole we Nearly ALL agree Women Should Fight !
And They get better and better as time goes on and More and More Exposure ! All Good !
My Only Point i keep trying to get is that Women should Do 5 x 3
( as 2 or 3 U.K. Fighters Ive already Mentioned Have Done here Already )
But im not too sure about Elbows to the Face though ! :-((( Ladies are far better Looking !!! And Should Stay that way !
If it was Like `5x3` and superleague and say with Elbows to the Body as women ARE allowed to do in the U.K. then i think its a Forward"
💩"As a polemic discussion goes, it has forced me forced to evaluate the reasons why women should fight.
I now believe women should NOT fight.
Not for reasons espoused above but because it is very time intensive training any fighters, let alone a group that is demonstratively a very small minority within any gym, that promotes fighters. Women fighters have and always will be a small minority, thus serious consideration should be given to actively discouraging their participation.
Like in any well-run business, ‘slow’ moving product lines are discarded or removed from the shelves, the same for items that ‘cost’ more to stock at the expense other ‘profitable’ lines
This would leave trainers more time to concentrate on more viable resources.. ie Men."
💩"No gym operator in his right mind would target or centre their advertising campaign on women to boost membership over an extended period.. .. as a group, women in an extreme contact sport such as Muay Thai have and will always, be a minority.
Why waste time on them … ??? After all, time is a commodity."
💩"women represent approx 50% of the population and that we will never, ever see that proportion represented in any established MuayThai gym as fighters"
💩"its a Mainly Male Dominated Sport Men Dont want to see the Female Species Fighting as its Not Feminine !"
This should not be any kind of question or debate at all, but if you want to get sucked into this trash like I did, you can read the full thread here: http://message.axkickboxing.com/index.phtml?action=dispthread&topic=12111&junk=1089313216.51433
