Elisa Black
Sunday Mail
December 15, 2013
SHE can bench press 100kg and runs 10km three times a week.
She pushes a tractor tyre up and down the road to build strength and was, until recently, a national swimming champion. She is 175cm tall and weighs 95kg, and her strength scored her positions as middle-line backer and centre with Legends Football League's Queensland Brigade.
But according to the Legends Football League, Australia's version of the controversial American Lingerie League, 18-year-old Mikaila Perrett's last-minute exclusion from the team had nothing to do with her looks or size, but was because she isn't fit enough.
Mikaila said it was only as she went to put on her uniform to pose for the team photo - having travelled to Sydney with the Queensland Brigade after being named on the starting team last weekend - that she was told that she wasn't allowed to gear up for the photograph or play.
Having trained in the sport for 18 months, Mikaila had sent a photo of herself in a bikini to the sport's American headquarters for approval.
"They told me I was not lean enough so I trained my arse off and dropped another five kilograms, but apparently it was still not enough,'' Mikaila said.
"I cried, bawled my eyes out. It had already affected me and the looks component was in my mind but this has kind of affected my self-esteem and I'm not so confident anymore.
"It's very looks focused. I go to the gym with one of the girls who has been named as one of the players to watch, she said she needed to stop eating.
"Some of the girls are starving themselves to be OK."
Mikaila's dad, Randy Perrett, said the league's claims it is an elite sport are rubbish.
"(Legends Football League chairman) Mitch Mortaza has always maintained that the game is about skill not skin,'' he said.
"She flew to Sydney with the team, paid for a spray tan as is compulsory only to be told right before the game that she wasn't approved to wear the uniform.
"It's never been mentioned that her fitness is in question, it's always been her looks that have been mentioned."
But a spokeswoman for LFL Australia insisted it was Mikaila's fitness was the problem.
"Much like any high profile sport federation or club, there are physical fitness standards to enable the athlete to achieve maximum performance levels,'' she said.
Hey lets get real here we are all adults after all, I think we know what this Sheila is hoping to sell here,that said, in Australia, in my humble opinon, she has a case to sue the shit out of the promoters of the Lingerie League for one reason and one alone.
In Australia the inability to achieve the physical standards of an employers requirements are irrelevant when a FEMALE applicant applies for employment, the ability to perform the physical requirements are not applicable when a FEMALE applicant applies for a position of employment in Australia.
The various Australian State and Federal Police Forces, Fire Brigades, Ambulance / Rescue Services are proof positive of my assertion that Female applicants are exempt from the obligation to full fill physical requirements (running jumping climbing pulling a trigger on a gun carrying a wounded fellow employee victim swimming leaping bounding lifting pulling patient out of the shit as well as themselves etc etc etc )
The same exemptions for females are applied to the Australian Armed Forces.
In order to achieve the sacred Goal of "Equality" the Sex of the applicant is the over riding consideration in the NSW Fire Brigade, a minimum 50 % Female staffing target is the present objective of the NSW Fire Brigade recruitment office irrespective of the ability of the applicant to perform the requirements of the duties of a Fireman.
Gay and disabled and Non English speaking applicants are also fast tracked through the NSW Police Force and NSW Fire Brigades the NSW Ambulance Service has longs been a haven for Gay and Lesbian recruits who receive preferrential treatment when applying for employment,the same as Male QANTAS Cabin Crew.
I am sure that should this Lady get her Arse into gear and find a MANAGER who is PC literate she and indeed he will be rolling in clover in a very short time after all the Sista Hood has already done all the hard work for them, its just a matter of getting the Lingerie Football Mob to sign the cheque and she and he fill in the amount of the 'Hurt" and "Pain" she suffered after been told she was not fit enough, hey in Australia the ability to do what you are been paid for at a standard required to do so by the people paying your wages does not count, you see in Australia every Woman has the right to do whatever they want to do even if they are physically or mentally unable to do so.
Dont ya just Luv this STRAYLIA ?
