Latasha Marzolla is a former Playboy model. Gina Carano is starring in a Steven Soderbergh film. Three seconds on Google can get you to a link titled “Top 10 Sexiest Female MMA Fighters.”
There is an undeniable reason for MMA’s recent approval of female athletes: Many of them are easy fits for magazine covers and adolescent swooning. Acceptance of their gender in combat sports seems to come with the provision that they look good in a dress. (Men are objectified, too, but it’s rare that fans…
