Wow this young lady might have some stories to tell re her time at the Matildas..  being particularly young and attractive might have sent the Lesbian mafia tongues wagging

Not to mention the Australian Cricket team too, lots of Lesbians there.

Does beg the question though. Why are lesbians overrepresented in women's professional sports?

Are they lesbians because they play sport. Or are they sporty because they're lesbians?  (I count at least 6 (outed publicly) of the Matildas that went to the Olympics. That's 30% and well north of the average population.)

What's the go?  Do notice a fair few of the girls that are quite good in whatever sport you care to choose can look 'blokey'.

More testosterone perhaps?  (Gives an advantage maybe?) 

My guess would be professional sport makes 'relationships' difficult to maintain more so for women then men. They spend weeks and months bunking up together so if you are more diverse with your sexuality it is pretty easy to form a relationship  with a team mate. 

I think regardless of feminist wanting to admit it men and women are wired differently - im going to over generalist here so dont hate me im aware we cant paint both genders with a black and white brush but im speaking generally. 

 as a pro athlete i dare say most of the males are happy to have casual sex with super models and have a fulfilling romantic life (at least till they get married). Being a pro athlete generally makes access to multiple female sexual partners a lot easier.  Males are wired  evolutionary to spread their  seed. It also means there gfs/wives are more then happy to wait whilst there off earning mega $$$ as women tend to be more patient. 

Women are wired to nest, have comfort in relationships - they are less inclined to have casual sex and more include for meaningful relationships. Thus it is much harder to find a guy willing to wait whilst your off for 9 months playing football if you are dating. 

Yes im aware this might come off sexist and i dont mean it to be that way but that is just my opinion. 

Who knows for sure.But rightly or wrongly i always thought female sports like cricket were dominated by lesbians and this was confirmed by a coach..Not that there is anything wrong with that.These days im sure the demographics are changing.
Maybe Jordan Peterson knows more.😀

its quite interesting I thought just on numbers there were more gay blokes than lesbian women, how come we havent seen any bloke on bloke action in the socceroos? haha

It is odd actually with all the progress that there are not at least a few openly gay players (yet). 

The social pressure/stigma against it clearly still exists.

Harry kewell acted and looked like a gay
Ljubo sounded really gay
Brett Holman was gay with pim verbleak and Arnold

Andy Brennan in VIC NPL is pretty much the first ( at least that I know of) that came out and declared in an interview that he was gay ....... the rest of Vic Soccer at the time was like "meh .... fair enough" I played with a couple of guys I suspect may have been gay and then looking at pro players you could probably point a few suspicions at ....  Neymar and Craig Foster for examples but on a hunch, I don't think there would be as many gay male players as female ones..... I could be wwwaaaayyyyyy off though

Ronaldo I reckon. 

The guy was born with a cleft palate, which can affect your speech. Regardless, it's quite a stupid thing of you to say, along with the rest of your post tbh.

Regarding the allegations that have been made: abuse is abuse, regardless of the gender of the abuser.

On another note Ellyse Perry is average looking at best.... 


You cant tell me this bird is much better then a 5/10 maybe a 6 bcuz she has a good body

Some girls are effectively blokes that just so happen to not have penises. Their build, their jaw lines, their musculature. For example Martina Navratalova, Billie Jean King, Caster Semenya. There's other that don't come readily to mind.

As for the matildas Kelond Knight and Van Egmond are fairly blokey. (De Vanna too for that matter.)

Again, more testosterone?

IMO that is your answer.

I would say it has to do with opportunity, girls until now had no way of playing football unless they played with boys. Not saying this is all just a lot of ‘tomboys’ would of been attracted to the sport. It is definitely changing with a broader appeal going on. In a lot of the urban areas you are seeing more and more females participating. 

She probably had to deflect off some the predators in the Matildas over the years. 

Plus it's well known that they were jealous of the attention she was getting due to her cricket commitments so some of the predators within the dressing room undermined her with the coach at the time & forced her out of the Matildas setup. 

Predators who don't get their way always present themselves at the victims. 

As much as I like to think I am fairly open minded and accepting of peoples sexual identity, there is something extremely dodgy happening behind the scenes. 

Now I can't really help but see some of our biggest stars being catalysts to this environment, which begs the question, should they be these mega role models for young aspiring female footballers, that is fairly prominently portrayed in the media? if this is the type of stuff coming out of the Matilda's camps. 

Feel like this needs to be truly exposed and people need to be held accountable as soon as possible so that this isn't something that manifests over time and eventually effects the whole football structure.

She was bae 11 years ago, FWIW

Or, in your case, more brain cells? 

In regards woman playing 'male' sports, I always thought it a self reinforcing prejudice.  Which is finally starting to change.
Women playing male sports were just dismissed as Butch lesbians.  Teenage girls interested in the sport, sensitive to how they were perceived, and who were not butch lesbians, played something else due to the stigma.

Leaving the sport to those who were butch lesbians, and were not afraid of being seen as such.  These were often mature women, as even a teenage butch lesbian may be scared of the stigma.  

Simple numbers are telling us that has now changed.  Then numbers of women and young women, playing 'male' sports code these days shows the majority are not gay, we just dont have that many gay women.

This was actually seen as an issue 5-10 years ago, as it was seen as lgbt women losing a 'safe' space.  No longer able to act gay in the changeroom, if the team is full of straight teenagers. 

Did you get beat up by a "Butch Lesbian "when you were young ?

That explains alot of these guys posts. A lot repressed incel vibes going on in here

Outed gays/lesbians in the Matildas vastly outnumber the number of gays/lesbians in society on a % basis.  (There's at least 6 to 8 current Matildas (depending on what squad they took where) that have outed themselves. That's not counting those that haven't as yet.) That's a lot.  

I remember one brutal tackle on Perry by DeVanna.... Here's the follow through phase:
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On Offsiders, the Matildas were discussed.

Apparently, none of the current crop want to discuss the issues raised by de Vanna. 

Waleed Aly said some of the issues were an open secret, but were never raised by journalists. 

Does anyone think we will see Bans for any of the current Matilda's? If they are found to be guilty of misconduct?

Some of you guys ought to be really glad the sisterhood hasn't found this thread.

Even if there are more lesbians than the national average in the Matildas...what the fuck does that matter?

Doesn't matter one dot mate. I was just interested in the reason for lesbians being overrepresented in team women's sport and why.

Haven't once disparaged anyone for their sexuality.

I disnt think it required explaining that I was referring to the stereotypes that society used against women seen to be following 'masculine' pursuits, and the impact that had on sporting decisions made by insecure and image conscious teenage girls.  The large growth in girls playing football, AFL, cricket, Rugby, is not due to women suddenly liking these sports, its due to societal impediments being removed, such as social stigma.

Personally, I have always followed womens sport.

The only issue is, did you miss the point, in order to be able to take a pot shot, or did you just plain old, miss the point.