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Why Do We Ignore Women's Sports?
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Lion Heart
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The onus is on the women to watch and fund these sports, ratings would go up, the purse goes up, athleticism rises, etc.
-Pyromaniac-
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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.
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.
shanshan310
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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.
JasonUresti
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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.
shanshan310
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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...
bernardobri
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Which parts of the world?
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.
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.
Finaika
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I enjoy watching women's 100m hurdles.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltcCGd9zid8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltcCGd9zid8
BigJonsson
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Women's tennis is about it
Like I said, female sprinters > female endurance athletes.
questionmark
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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.
Freshmaker
I am Korean.
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.
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.
Slappers Only
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Same.
not psycho
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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.
CountAntonius
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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.
Hell of a claim to make without any evidence
Hari Seldon
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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.
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.
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.
The men U.S soccer team sucks but the women's team is very good.
DeaconKnowledge
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Quite the chicken and egg thing you got going there.
pants
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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.
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).
Women's hockey and volleyball, looks like quality though. Good talented and well trained people there imo.
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.
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
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).
Japanese World Cup champion women fly in coach while the men cozy up in business class | The Footy Blog
This from the Wall Street Journal indicates that even a major international trophy sometimes isnt enough to put women on equal footing (pun perhaps intended) with men:
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).
No way would the women's team beat the men's team.
The Albatross
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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.
The Albatross
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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.
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.
Sho_Nuff82
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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.
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.
pants
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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.
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.
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.
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.
BannedEpisode
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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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