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Is it sexist to only watch men's basketball and not women's basketball?
I have a male coworker, who is a leftist, who has been pushing people the past week and a half or so to watch women's basketball. He has stated that the networks are sexist in how they place the games and the times of the games. I told him that a lot of that has to do with TV viewership, he said that TV viewership was sexist, because some of the women's players are better than the men's players.
The NBA has no rule on gender. A woman could play in the NBA, but none has due to skill and ability. Men's basketball simply has more skill and ability, which makes the games more exciting.
No, of course it isn't sexist. A person watches a sport he/she enjoys watching.
And the networks main interest is to make a profit. The schedule for the highest ratings. And that's he way it should be.
I watch men's basketball. My team plays "small ball," which is really fast - lots of action and strength. I don't see the women with the same capacity, so FOR ME (George Hahn), I find it too slow and boring.
I am a female and I also find some of the male players sexy - and that adds to the fun of watching, FOR ME.
If we're all being honest with ourselves, women's sports are just an inferior product and a waste of time (with figure skating and perhaps gymnastics being the only exceptions).
If we're all being honest with ourselves, women's sports are just an inferior product and a waste of time (with figure skating and perhaps gymnastics being the only exceptions).
Not sure about the waste of time, but it is an inferior product. Which is why the have to piggyback on the men's product.
This year they are piggybacking on the bracket. They are trying to gain interest in their bracket like the men's bracket. So in order to get in the CBS bracket to win prizes, they want you to play both the men's and women's brackets.
We've all grown up watching men's sports. This has been ingrained in us. Yes, it is sexist because no one ever put women's sports in the forefront. If they were promoted as much as men's teams are then maybe more would be excited to watch them. People aren't sexist for watching men's sports when women's sports are barely shown one tv.
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