Prostituting Teenage Girls...are we all guilty?

My family, being deeply Canadian, naturally attended an NHL hockey game while in Phoenix over the holiday. Phoenix Coyotes vs. Colorado Avalanche. There was a buzz in the arena and the simpleness of spirit that exists among true hockey lovers...mullets galore, sometimes wranglers, sun drained, sweat stained baseball caps with a beer in one hand and a hotdog in the other - really...can anyone think of a more satisfying environment? So what does this "good clean fun" have to do with prostituting teenage girls...

Periodically, the snow around the goals and boards builds up and needs to be cleared. There are two teenage boys and two teenage girls who comprise the clean up crew. Here is the problem: the teenage boys are in appropriate track suits, hats and gloves to scoop up the snow...the teenage girls were dressed in bikini tops with short skirts in order to scoop up snow. **Note that both males and females were doing the EXACT same job**

Are we at a point in society in which we allow 15 year old girls to skate in front of 20,000 onlookers wearing hardly anything? And to exacerbate this abhorrent display of "young girl sexuality" the disparity of man vs. woman was illustrated in a blatant side-by-side comparison; boy-track suit, girl - bikini.

Don't we prosecute individuals for sexually exploiting girls of that age? So we, my family, could not be participants. We instantly sent an email to the Phoenix Coyotes head office via my Blackberry...it read:

"We are sitting at the Coyotes game....huge hockey fans. Our question is: Why do the female ice cleaners wear skimpy shirts and skirts, while the males doing the exact same job are wearing sport outfits? The two men behind us were chatting to one another commenting that they were sickened by seeing teenage girls wearing the least amount of clothing as possible 'and the message that sends to our youth'.

Please change this sexist and degrading practice. Thank you"