I enjoy basketball, I never thought about the women being more interesting on those levels. Hmmm...

 

O rly? So... Women aren't as interesting as men are when it comes to strategic or intelligence related matters when it comes to sports? hmmmm... Interesting. Tell us more, you sexist pig!

(Well played, Pepp! A little fake controversy is exactly what this snore-fest of a thread needs. Keep it up. lol)

 

BAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

 

@NakedCity I like your style.

Granted, this thread isn't going to get the kind of juice that "Time for Trump to go" or "So... Chris Harwick" gets, but you still put yourself out there and tried to find something for us to talk about. It's ironic that the threads that bring out the most controversy and possibly, the worst in us, are also the most popular/most posted in. lol

 

I don't really watch sports at all, aside from the occasional baseball game because they're fun to go to lol. But I have always thought it to be such a shame that women's sports generally aren't as recognized as men's. One day

 

I think there's certain Olympic sports where women get more of the spotlight then men, (beach volleyball, gymnastics, figure skating) but that might be due to seeing them as sex objects because of their tight/small clothing and their rockin' bodies.

<Quickly pops in a DVD of the last Olympics>

Anyway... I was going to make a really good point, but I got distracted for some reason. Sorry.

 

Yeah that's true...and it's kinda cool in a way because it highlights some differences between men and women and there's nothing wrong with that. Maybe women are better at more technical fine-tuned skills like figure skating and gymnastics, where men shine at beating one another up and hitting balls and stuff. LOL kidding.

Seriously though, i don't think there's anything wrong with men and women having different strengths and weaknesses. BUT i do hope that the sports like women's basketball who also have male versions start to get more recognition

Also...since a kid i always wished there was womens baseball and not softball. Wtf? I grew up playing baseball with the neighbor kids, and then suddenly they want me to use this gigantic softball?

 

I've never understood that. Any of it. Why there's baseball vs. softball. Why softball is almost identical to baseball, but with a larger ball and a different style of pitching. Why softball used to be considered a "woman's sport".

There's got to be a lot of sexist history behind all of that. Were women rebelling against the sexism of men and baseball and tried to create a woman's alternative? Or was there some sexist women who talked the other women into thinking softball was easier? Or maybe the men did it? I don't know. They just need to do away with softball and let the ladies play baseball.

I watched "A League of their Own". I know what's up. ;-)

 

That's funny.

But okay.... doesn't that make some sense though? Having the ball be smaller for women because their hands are generally smaller than a man's? At least this particular sport.

I can't think of a sport where a ball is physically handled more, and by every player on the team. Only goal keepers can handle the ball in soccer. Baseball players only handle a ball to throw it to someone else. Only football players in select positions handle the football a lot.

Maybe Rugby players get a lot of ball handling, but I still think basketball players get the most contact and they have to dribble, hold, catch passes, shoot, switch hands, etc. A smaller ball for females makes it easier for them to handle if the vast majority of them have smaller hands than their male counterparts.

It's like bicycling, there's different styles that are better suited for women because they are physically different from men in size. The only thing I can't understand is why men's bikes have the "nut crusher" bar and women's bikes don't. I demand justice!

 

I’ve always wondered this! Shouldn’t it be the opposite since men have...stuff there...that should require a lower bar??

 

IKR?!?!?

And that little padded foam Subway sandwich thing does NOT help one bit. I don't even think they put those on bikes now.