Why Do We Ignore Women's Sports?

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Like already said on page 1, I want to see the best there is. Women's sports aren't the best of the best. So I don't watch. Simple as that for me.
 
why WOULD i want to watch female sports?

They are slower and usually less skilled.
Yep, it's just not as competitive, men have been competing for centuries, and it shows. Just talking about the sports i like to watch like soccer, women are generally slower, much less skilled and not enternteining to watch at all. Just compare a male goalkeeper to a female one, lol.
 
Bullshit. Athleticism is extremely important in soccer. To imply anything else is ignorant imo.

I never said it wasn't. I said women's soccer isn't less interesting than men's, since some people were saying the physical disadvantage made women's sport less interesting. Read the post properly before you overreact next time.
 
Serena was already a PRO womens player for over 4 years and became a top 10 player on the womens tour the next season.

Close enough.

Another thing to keep in mind, Karsten had "warmed up" that day for his match with the Williams sisters by playing a round of golf and drinking some pints.

He also took it easy on them, because it was just something he was doing for fun, and didn't want to hurt their feelings and embarrass them.
 
in other parts of the world women sports is just as important as male sports. it is mostly in the US that they ignore it.
 
I watch girls soccer as much as mens . I don't really know if there is a female hockey team . Thats about the only other sport I watch.

Oh and when i'm bored i will put on golf but it can really be either mens or women , i don't actually care about either
 
On the Chinese sports channel they will follow the women sports fairly frequently but I think they don't do that because people care about the sports, they just want to see their women shit kicking other countries.
 
I see women's sports playing all the time on the 300 billion espn channels that exist, just nobody watches them.

My personal opinion of them is that with the most popular male dominated sports, women are just generally less entertaining to watch. Outside of some abnormality, you're just not gonna see a woman built like Shaq/LeBron/Jordan and that sheer physicality that they have is what makes them fun to watch.

Girls soccer is pretty entertaining though, not really any difference from the mens.
 
I never said it wasn't. I said women's soccer isn't less interesting than men's, since some people were saying the physical disadvantage made women's sport less interesting. Read the post properly before you overreact next time.

But is is, very much so. Women's soccer is inferior to men's in every conceivable way, the superior athleticism is just a part of it.
 
I will watch women's MMA if it's part of a decent-enough card. But yeah, the fact there's only 1-2 weight classes for women's MMA fucks things up for fighters at the extreme ends of the height spectrum. But unless we suddenly get a massive deluge of world-class female MMA fighters I doubt there will be more impetus to make more weight classes.
Yeah. It's too bad since if they had a bigger pool to draw from, they'd have a more viewer friendly sport to present. That's where the less money, less interest stuff starts becoming a bar to entry/expansion.

That doubly hurts the competitors. If you have someone that's great, and the field is stocked with cans, it drags down the great one too.

Also, in a related story: When I was in Thailand earlier this year training I saw a few women's Muay Thai fights. The most brutal KO I saw was in one of them. One girl just threw a standing elbow that made a huge cut above the other girl's eye. She was out cold for at least five minutes with blood pouring out all over the place.

The thing I would like to state here is that very few - if any - male Thai MT fighters would ever be KO'd like that. Their conditioning and physicality is just unreal. And unless female fighters want to take the Cristiane Santos route, they'll never have the same physical potential that men do.
That one MT champ that got a sex change ended up getting banged around in the women's division IIRC. It's not just a question of conditioning there.
 
in other parts of the world women sports is just as important as male sports. it is mostly in the US that they ignore it.


Which is why despite soccer/football being the most popular sport in the world, women didn't have a World Cup until 1991.

And then the US won it.
 
Oh really? That's interesting. I wonder if this 'we want to watch the best of the best and that's MEN' mentality is a US one...

Football, Basketball, Hockey and Baseball dominate the country. That may be the reason. But when the women did good in the world cup america was all over it so it's not really a "we don't like women" in sports mentality it's just the sports that rule this country are dominated by men.
 
I definitely prefer women's tennis over guy's tennis.

Also women's soccer is more entertaining to me than men's soccer, but that might be because the US women's soccer players are very entertaining themselves.
 
I'm guessing that men hold the majority when it comes to sports supporters, so perhaps they prefer to watch their own sex when it comes to their favourite sport.

Its really not so much this for me but for basketball woman can't dunk and dunking is an important part of basketball. Heck its one of the things that put basketball back on the map because at one point it was dying until magic Johnson came along. Something I find funny is that the womans college basketball is somewhat more popular than the wnba.

I honestly think females could do almost all sports equally except for basketball and football. With basketball they struggle to put up 50-60 points a game and that's boring, it means that nothing is really happening during the game. Things like breast I guess do get in the way and most females don't want to have breast reduction if they have a G cup. I don't blame them though because a lot of people sure think that woman with big breast or just useless.




us women's soccer team might beat the men tho. stayed up to watch usa vs brazil during the last womens world cup- and ill hace to say that it is one of the best matches ive ever watched.

The men U.S soccer team sucks but the women's team is very good.
 
Well, tennis has been mentioned a lot. Martial Arts, swimming, surfing and other water based sports, and soccer I would say. If you count things like motorsports or equestrian as sports there's no physical advantage there.
Nah, thats untrue. Male and female motorsport is actually something that is generally combined, women would struggle at the top level (Formula 1) for one it requires an insane amount of neck strength. (and historically, the two or three women that has tested F1 cars has struggled a lot). On the lower formulae women have competed and often beat their male counterparts though.
 
women's sports is watered down version of men
thats how most see it

theres truth to it with most physical sports

put roger federer VS serena williams
or any other such matchup and it would be a massacre

i would really love to see such matchups one day just to see what happens
 
Watched a women's world cup football match once. It was a sorry sight. Lacked the speed, power and they even lacked basic technique. The lack of technique is probably attributed to the way smaller talent pool to select from(less women playing, less professional teams, less funding).
us women's soccer team might beat the men tho.
That's borderline delusional. At least the last time I saw USA play was at the WC. They had a pretty good thing going.

Women's hockey and volleyball, looks like quality though. Good talented and well trained people there imo.
 
Why do people only talk about football?No shit the women's teams aren't as good as the billionaire men's sides.

Same reason American Samoa is never going to beat Brazil, unless something very weird happens.
 
Saw this on twitter and thought of this thread...

Japanese World Cup champion women fly in coach while the men cozy up in business class | The Footy Blog

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This from the Wall Street Journal indicates that even a major international trophy sometimes isn’t enough to put women on equal footing (pun perhaps intended) with men:

The Japanese women, considered strong contenders for Olympic gold in London, had to squeeze into economy seats on a 12-hour flight to Europe this week, while members of the less successful men’s soccer team, enjoyed the plush amenities of business class further up the cabin.

“It should have been the other way around,” team captain Homare Sawa, the belle of Japanese soccer, told reporters after arriving in Paris. “Even just in terms of age, we are senior,” joked FIFA’s women’s soccer player of the year.

Apparently this was the doing of the Japanese Football Association, whose “Fifth Principle” of their code of conduct holds them to “Apply all human, intellectual, and material resources accumulated towards the contribution to Asian and global football.”

Material resources does not include fancy seats on an airplane for world champion footballers.

While I think the Japanese FA should have flown the women with the men in business class, it's silly to compare the success of the two teams, men's soccer is a far bigger deal than women's, which was basically a US-dominated event until recently (thanks to Title IX).
 
They're usually more boring. The sports that are of equal excitement aren't interesting to me. There are exceptions. I like Women's college basketball but not enough to watch anything but my favorite team.
 
Truthfully, I prefer the WNBA to the NBA. So much ball movement. That isn't innuendo - I like how everyone gets involved.

The ball movement aspect is true, and it is a noteworthy and valuable difference.

But the WNBA is horrible. It's got everything bad about the NBA and nothing....... I repeat NOTHING... good.
 
I ignore it because, to put it bluntly, they just aren't as good, skilled, or athletic as the men. It sounds sexist but I honestly could not see the best female player in baseball/soccer/basketball/hockey being able to do anything against the worst men's players in those respective leagues. They are just genetically built better for athletics.

I know it's bad when espn makes a big deal about a 6'8'' female player barely being able to dunk when a 6'8'' NBA player has to duck while dunking to avoid slamming his face into the rim.
 
WNBA is the saddest pro sports league in American history.

Came in here to post this. The best female athletes don't even play the sports that we care about, so why watch?

If I wanted to watch sloppy unathletic basketball I'd go to local HS games. Women are crippled from adolescence by playing by different rules with a different ball, softball/baseball and lacrosse the same. It would take a complete restructuring of our society's admittedly sexist sports segregation in order for women to catch up.
 
Makes me wonder why haven't seen women in F1 yet. Things get even sadder when I realize that the only female test driver in F1 (afaik), Maria de Villota, recent a terrible accident that cost her her right eye.
 
women tennis is a fucking joke. Actually became a joke. I remember the stefi graff, monica seles times. now they are just sort of pretty players with 0 consistency. And don't let me start on the williams beating men players. Ever since then they are just cunts to me
 
If I wanted to watch sloppy unathletic basketball I'd go to local HS games. Women are crippled from adolescence by playing by different rules with a different ball, softball/baseball and lacrosse the same. It would take a complete restructuring of our society's admittedly sexist sports segregation in order for women to catch up.
I never understood the existence softball. I used to play baseball as kid, I remember playing against an older softball team(female obviously) with softball rules. It was so annoying, the ball was so huge, can't remember who won though. :| There's no reason why women can't play baseball.
 
Makes me wonder why haven't seen women in F1 yet. Things get even sadder when I realize that the only female test driver in F1 (afaik), Maria de Villota, recent a terrible accident that cost her her right eye.
Like I posted a few posts above, F1 requires a remarkable amount of strength. A woman would have to train very, very hard to be able to withstand the g-force stresses alone. Of course men also have to train hard, but they can get away with less.

Also there has been 5 women in full F1, 2 current testers (well 1 now, was absolutely gutted at Maria's misfortune)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_female_Formula_One_drivers
 
Like I posted a few posts above, F1 requires a remarkable amount of strength. A woman would have to train very, very hard to be able to withstand the g-force stresses alone. Of course men also have to train hard, but they can get away with less.

Also there has been 5 women in full F1, 2 current testers (well 1 now, was absolutely gutted at Maria's misfortune)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_female_Formula_One_drivers

Thanks for posting that.

Yea, I do agree that when it comes to physicality it's nature's one discriminating factor. That said, during the time of olympics (summer & winter), common wealth games etc, I enjoy watching both men's and women's sports. Simply put, the moment to moment action is equally enjoyable for both genders as long as people aren't hell bent of comparing the two.
 
I never said it wasn't. I said women's soccer isn't less interesting than men's, since some people were saying the physical disadvantage made women's sport less interesting. Read the post properly before you overreact next time.

Except it is less interesting -- and it has everything to do with athleticism. I don't dislike women's soccer, but it is slower and less technical. The athleticism in the men's game is just at a totally different level. You aren't going to see something like Barcelona in women's soccer. You just aren't.

Women's sports are almost always inferior because women are physically inferior. That isn't to disparage women or suggest that they are inferior in other ways. People loves sports because they enjoy seeing athletes compete at an elite level, and men are better athletes.

us women's soccer team might beat the men tho. stayed up to watch usa vs brazil during the last womens world cup- and ill hace to say that it is one of the best matches ive ever watched.

The USWNT has lost to junior high squads, and you're going to suggest they could beat a team with multiple starters who play in Europe?

The USMNT isn't elite but it'd beat any women's team you could conjure up.
 
Came in here to post this. The best female athletes don't even play the sports that we care about, so why watch?

If I wanted to watch sloppy unathletic basketball I'd go to local HS games. Women are crippled from adolescence by playing by different rules with a different ball, softball/baseball and lacrosse the same. It would take a complete restructuring of our society's admittedly sexist sports segregation in order for women to catch up.

This is true and even then the muscle mass they can gain just aren't equal to man anyway. It would also take males to be able to play games with females during younger ages on up to make sure the level of play is equal.


Not to mention that like you said even the best females that played in college even go to the wnba, they go off to be a doctor or something. At the end of the day females can't really dunk and without that its a lose lose from the get go. Some females have a gender handicap by having large breast. It weighs them down so that cuts into the number of females that could do some things man could do in sports,unless they get breast reduction.
 
I admit I dont care as much about women's sports but I still pay attention to the Minnesota Lynx and I watch the women's world cup and various olympic sports.
 
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