Posted on 06/11/2015 11:11:05 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Tell the author they’d get more attention if they played naked.
well...yeah...
barf. just barf. boo hoo, people don’t get excited about women sports. poor widdle us. it must be sexism. unfair. penalty flag.
crap like this makes it easy to ignore them even more. they don’t deserve it. plenty of sports had tiny followings for a very, very long time. the players played not to be adored, not to say “look at me!”, they played because they loved what they did.
if you play sports for “equality” you ain’t doing it for the right reasons.
For criminal sake who pays any attention to soccer no matter which sex is playing?
Foreigners here.
Who forgot? Who even gave a sh*t? I've said before, the only thing more boring than soccer is women's soccer and I will go out of my way to avoid this mini-media frenzy over the Women's World Cup. Besides, the US Open starts next Thursday.
How about yourself, Mom?
However, that explanation doesn't satisfy the feminist need for victim status.
Well, then let's just cancel it!
That is a big issue; the women’s game is much slower, and the players are a lot less talented. I’ve watched a few of the games, and you see a lot more passes to nowhere (or outright to the other team) than you’d ever see in a men’s World Cup game. The difference in athletic ability is stark.
The 1999 victory was used to promote a women’s professional league (which folded shortly afterwards); I believe they attempted another one, and that folded as well. Unlike the WNBA (which is funded by wealth transfers from the NBA), there is little money in the men’s leagues in the US (MLS and NASL) - so there is nothing to prop up women’s soccer.
It doesn’t help that the US team looks like a gay pride event...
It is nice to watch two Scandinavian teams play...even if the play is boring you’ll hope for overtime...
The men are only better athletes because they were socialized to be better athletes?
“But the women’s team just isn’t getting the attention or respect it deserves. Especially if you compare it to the promotion the U.S. men — a thoroughly mediocre team, at least by global standards — received in the run-up to the World Cup last year (see: “I believe that we will win”).
I do not begrudge the American men the spotlight, but the facts are hard to ignore: Their best-ever result in a World Cup was third, in 1930. In more recent memory — the 2010 and 2014 tournaments — they’ve barely made it to the knockout stage.”
That’s just stupid. Promoting the women’s team does not mean you need to knock the men’s team down a peg as the author does. Besides, it’s just silly to call the U.S. men’s team “thoroughly mediocre” at this point in time. And, saying that they “barely” made it to the knockout rounds in 2014 ignores that they did so by making it out of the toughest group in the tournament. So, again, just a stupid article.
Even in Soccer crazy Norway I had to look hard to find the Norway-Thailand score (Norway 4-O btw.) Norway has one at least 2 World Cups. The reaction still is meh. The men’s team here is definetly mediocre and their games are on TV against soccer superpowers like Albania and Montenegro. /s
Put the women on the unisex soccer team.
But don’t be surprised when the Islamist player insist that the women sit on the bench.
Tell her that I ignore men’s world cup soccer just as much.
Will Women’s World Cup teams allow transgendered men to play or are they still oppressively cis-gendered sexist?
The facts are the average female is not nearly as interested in sports as the average male. It is NOT!! the male's obligation to watch sports he doesn't like to watch.
On a basketball forum I frequent the subject of lack of attention to female pro players was broached. I opined that their potato sack uniforms might have something to do with it. If I can be so crudely male chauvinistic and sexist, men like to see a little leg on females.
My remark was met by a chorus of posters who called me a sexist (rightly so) who said men should watch the women play no matter how they were dressed. These people are living in a bizarro world. Men will NOT!! watch women they deem unattractive play sports. Thems the facts...sorry if it offends some people.
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