I needn't provide any. Burden of proof is squarely on you, since the Church has never forbidden it or declared it to be sinful or bad. Find me a single pre-Vatican II theologian who stated that female sports are categorically sinful, bad, or displeasing to God. THEN I might begin to listen to your drivel.
Sports can have many benefits. I'm not talking about competitive sports or anything involving immodest dress. There are many physical, psychological, and emotional benefits. Getting into shape can give one more energy to perform one's duties of state. There's absolutely NO reason whatsoever that girls should be deprived of this.
It's idiots like yourself that make Traditional Catholics look like an Amish cult.
There, there, Loudestmouth-
I accept your concession.
Your retreat from defending women in sports (i.e., your initial position on this thread, which defended a competitive and immodest volloyball team of fake trads), and your subsequent transition to defending women in
non-competitive "sports" after you were thoroughly trounced, is duly noted.
No need for all the hot air and blather to cover/disguise your retreat.
It was already pointed out to you that the popes had discouraged female participation in sports (e.g., Pius XI: "The means employed to give health to the body, the noble instrument of the soul should take into account suitability of time and place. They should not excite vanity or promote immodesty.
And they must not lessen a young woman’s reserve and self-possession which are both the ornament and guarantee of virtue.” (Letter,
A Lei, Vicario Nostro, May 2, 1928), as these types of activities damage the femenine psyche and make manly women (and foment lesbianism).
It was only after this, that you moved into pretending you had always and only been defending girls participation in non-competitive "sports."
Of course, nobody in the entire thread was ever protesting girls participating in non-competitive "sports" (e.g., fishing, horseback riding, hiking, etc.), which are really just recreations, and not properly "sports" at all.
To pretend that you have only been defending girls recreation/non-competitive "sports" is betrayed by the fact that you intervened in this protest thread at all, which does not concern such things.
In any case, here is an excerpt from a longer TIA article (which Incred therefore surely supports!) to instill in you the common sense you are lacking regarding women in sports (and why it leads to lesbianism):
https://www.traditioninaction.org/Cultural/B003cpWomenSports.htm"Increasingly masculine girlsPopes Pius XI and Pius XII were addressing an age-old problem, a badly governed feminine spirit that tempts men with immodest clothing and bold attitudes. Consciously or unconsciously seductive, these women at least remain feminine, and their censurable position is still a natural one. Today a new long step has been taken down the stairs of decadence: the emergence of the masculine girl.
A masculine young woman ... or a feminine young man?
LA Times, August 22, 2004
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The new model is a strange androgynous figure. “Baller girls” is what some of the modern young athletes call themselves: girls who live for basketball, baseball, soccer, football – for the game, the sport, not for the skills and virtues that will help them as future wives and mothers. They are rough, sassy girls with the muscles of men, good enough to play against the “guys,” girls who have traded in their femininity in their mania for sports.Look, for example, at the picture at left. Is the figure in it a he or a she? One doesn’t really know at first glance if the basketball player is a masculine girl or a feminine young man.It is, in fact, a young woman, a popular college basketball player who represented the US at the Olympics. For some young girls aspiring to be athletes, she has become a new model ideal.She is an icon for the “baller girls” in-the-making who surround her in the picture at right. They wear their baggy t-shirt and shorts not just on the court, but at home, at school, in the malls, even to church. They slick back their hair tight, no curls, bows and fancy barrettes for them. They shuffle everywhere in tennis shoes and socks. This kind of behavior represents a trend toward the ever more masculine girl. Such women seem to have taken a step past the loss of the instinct of modesty that Pope Pius XII warned against, they are losing the very instinct of femininity.One can only wonder about the harsh and unhappy future of girls who reject their femininity openly and blatantly. They clearly have lost the notion of the dignity of the woman in view of her most noble office as wife, mother and helpmate of man. The masculine woman does not reflect a true emancipation. It is rather the debasing of the feminine character, a rejection of the wise plan of God. It is a position against nature.Health of soul takes precedence over health of bodyCatholic Morals are not like styles, they do not change with the times. What was immodest or indecent yesterday has not miraculously become acceptable today because of the omission or the complacence of the Conciliar Church. The words of Pope Pius XII to girls and women continue to be appropriate today:“Beyond fashion and its demands, there are higher and more pressing laws, principles superior to fashion, and unchangeable, which under no circuмstances can be sacrificed to the whim of pleasure or fancy, and before which must bow the fleeting omnipotence of fashion. These principles have been proclaimed by God, by the Church, by the Saints, by reason, by Christian morality…
"As St. Thomas of Aquinas teaches, the good of our soul must take precedence over that of our body, and to the good of our body we must prefer the good of the soul of our neighbor” (Allocution to the girls of Catholic Action of May 22, 1941).
There is only one way, today, as yesterday and tomorrow, for the Catholic girl and woman to counter immodesty in immoral fashions, bad language, and masculine attitudes: an absolute rejection of them. For the good of the soul, certain gymnastic exercises and sports are simply not suitable for Catholic young ladies."
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