Sports: not for everyone, but once in a while you'll find one you like then you're hooked for life. But the one thing that most people can agree on, whether they enjoy sports or not, is that women sports are just no good. And I don't know if anyone can really put a finger as to why they don't like women sports, except for that they're "just not as entertaining." I know this may sound harsh being a woman myself, but I don't even enjoy women sports, and I love everything soccer. Now, if someone gave me a free ticket to go see Atlanta Beats play, I would go and enjoy myself, but to sit down and watch USA's women team play...I think I'll pass.
I feel that the underlined connection is the "barbarianism" of it all. Romans and Greeks would put two slave men in a cage together and say, "who ever lives gets to have their freedom," and watch, just for entertainment. And at the heart of it all, we all enjoy watching two men, with nothing to lose, fight to the death. Now and days, instead of slaves we have football players and instead of a death pit we have the gridiron.
Some men have tried to make women sports entertainment more entertaining. Where do you think Lingerie football came from or even pool-full-of-mud wrestling? But there is that sexual theme that is also linked to that, making not accessible to all ages. I think the injury rate plays a factor too. For people to see a woman get hurt is sad, but for a man to get hurt it's cool, and we want to see more of it.
Let's face it, women sport will never be as great as the guys...At the end of the day, people would rather see Kobe Bryant than Lisa Leslie dunking a basketball.
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