Comments on: Act Like a Lady?

By: cc

cc — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:04:22 +0000

Usually anonymous…wished I could help with the sports thing.

Anyway, dangerous behavior shouldn’t be tolerated. Period. Yanking someone’s head back like that is very dangerous. If you are in a fight for your life, have at it. In a game? Unforgivable. She should be bounced from the team.

By: Usually anonymous

Usually anonymous — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 02:53:05 +0000

WoooHooo!!!! Girls gone Wild!!! Oh, it’s not?
What’s the point of playing sports in US then? Haven’t you seen NHL fights??
Every man and woman who play sports should also be trained as boxers or martial art karate kids (or adults)!!

….You know I’m just kidding, right? And yes, I have a daughter, but I can’t afford to make her play any sports (or music, even…)….otherwise, I would LOVE to put her in a sport team!!!

By: Virginia

Virginia — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 14:43:33 +0000

My daughter is a travel soccer player and I would be appalled if she showed this type of sportsmanship on or off the field. We have been involved with soccer to 10 years and as children get older, it definitely gets more competitive and contact comes wththe territory at that level and I am fine with that. But when she pulled that girl’s ponytail and wretched her neck, that crossed the line as far as I am concerned. That being said, once her suspension is over the slate must be wiped cleaned and she should be allowed to return to play, knoing full well cameras will be watching her like a hawk. Let’s hope she learned her lesson and be thankful no one was more seriously injured.

By: Gisele

Gisele — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 12:18:02 +0000

I have been coaching for a while now, i started when my eldest was six, he is now 22. i also played the sport myself for a few years, as an adult. soccer is what it is, is a strong, emotionally driven, passionate sport, either you love it or you don’t. i am not excusing this girl for the way she played, but i have seen worse. she probably learned a lot of this from an early age, parents for example, they do get into it too. some parents get extremely competitive and begin coaching their kids the wrong way to handle things in the field. i heard parents tell their little 8yr old boys/ or daughters to “go and elbow that kid, just get the ball!”. my eldest still plays as an adult now, and he gets kicked, punched, pushed, etc, the whole works. my second plays in a U17 team and he also sees it hard against extremely strong competitive players, nobody wants to loose in the field, it is a passion that goes beyond thinking about the other team players. i do not agree to that nor the roughness of the game, but soccer is what it is. i believe a good coaching for this girl will do it, i think she has learned her lesson, and she should be able to play the sport that is her passion. she won’t be the last one caugh playing like this. she was just noticed, but soon others will show more, just wait and see. soccer is growing here in the US, and it will attrack more and more kids to the field.

By: Kay

Kay — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 03:21:10 +0000

You know, we all make mistakes in life – big ones, medium, small. This young woman has apologized, been suspended and it sounds to me like she’s learned a lesson. Let’s give her a chance to move forward with her life. I don’t like one bit what she did and it angered and shocked me. However, she needs to learn from this mistake (and a big one, at that) and move forward, hopefully helping other young women not do what she did. There is a reason for this incident and maybe she will be a catalyst to show how to do better.

By: Sherri

Sherri — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 01:04:46 +0000

I saw that video and I think the frenzy is because you just DON’T expect to see that out of a woman on a sports team like that. That’s behavior for the WWE not women’s college soccer. I am sure she is sorry for her behavior but unfortunately she’s learning a hard lesson about the consequences of those actions….. hopefully people will put it to rest and she can move on.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:05:31 +0000

I was intrigued by the title “Act Like a Lady.” I come from a male-dominated and male-admiring family. Ideas like “a firm handshake shows a man’s integrity” were given value. I prefer a whole-handed handshake, but the half-handed (fingers only) handshake seems to be more common. Whenever I shake hands with someone a meet palms, I feel awkward and unfeminine. My question for Dr. Phil…is a firm whole-handed handshake only for men?

By: Theresa

Theresa — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 12:20:43 +0000

I was outraged when I saw what this young lady was doing to other girls on the playing field! All I kept saying to myself was that if she had of done to me what she was doing to these girls back in my days, she would have gotten an ass kicking so sevier that she would have never been able to hurt anyone ever again! I was so happy to have seen one girl actually fight back and did a very good job of it! She should be removed from the sport!

Theresa

By: Chris Mitchell

Chris Mitchell — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 07:50:48 +0000

So what if Lambert apologized to almost every person alive! So what if Vick served his time (which I think was not long enough) for killing dogs the fact remains that they still did it. In fact Vick tried to make us think he had nothing to do with it at first. Not to add fuel to the fire but how about Tiger Woods or OJ Simpson they were role models for many people too then Bam they suddenly have skeletons in their closet. I feel espicially in Lambert and Vicks case if the can’t stop themselves from hurting others be it animal or human they should not be allowed to play sports either. Sports to me was always a privlege especially on the National Leages. If they can’t pay the time don’t do the crime!

By: Leonie

Leonie — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:35:06 +0000

I don’t care whether you are male or female; I’m sick of constantly seeing poor sportsmanship on the field/court and atrocious behaviour by professional sports people off the field as well. Here in Australia sportsmen & women are huge celebrities, particularly the men who are rugby league and Aussie Rules players. The NRL in particular has been constantly plagued with bad behaviour; brawling, extreme drunkness, pack rapes, one of them even defecated in a hotel hallway recently after a wild night out on the town! These guys have contracts worth hundreds of thousands a year & they are role models for thousands of children. I’m sick of their misogynistic irresponsible behaviour, it’s way overdue for the League to properly crack down on this type of behaviour instead of trying to cover it up & giving token smacks on the wrist to these morons.