Tell the author they’d get more attention if they played naked.
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.
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!
“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.
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.
Women’s sports is boring. Who wants to see the equivalent of men’s high school sports?
The idea of sports is to watch the best gifted athletes compete and genetically women are not that.
Pray America is waking
Perhaps, but the men's team would run circles around the women's team.
This is pretty much the case for all women's sports - yes, there are good teams, but just as lesser professional sports leagues don't get the same attention as the top-tier leagues, who's going to want to watch that when they can see it done better (even with less success).
Also, the success of the USWNT is due, in large part, to the fact that most of the world didn't take women's soccer seriously for a long time. But they're catching up now, borrowing from the men's game, and team USA is no longer a shoe-in for the end stages.
Where women's sports succeed, in the rare cases they do, it's because of characters and personalities create a compelling interest that go beyond the sport. The USWNT is too much a single entity, without those distinctive characters, to capture that kind of imagination. (Well, there's Hope Solo, but other than the "bad boy... er... girl" role, she isn't that compelling story.)
Meh, not sure this is the most convincing article about “sexism”.
At least they don’t wear those sickening tight-butt and low-cut spandex jobs to make their sexuality “shine through”. That sickens me in volleyball, e.g. Not to mention that damn “Survivor” show.
Meanwhile “men” wear saggy-baggy gigantic parachute “shorts” in half of these sports. Men sure are protective of THEIR sexuality! But damn it, women better wear revealing stuff just for our excitement!
OK, off the soapbox....ggrrrr.
Next they’ll say women’s beach volley ball is sexist.
With recent victories in friendlies over the Netherlands and Germany, it cannot be said that the MNT is mediocre, even if I remain sore at Klinsmann for his dismissal of Donovan.
Fixed.
So I think all journalists have their new marching orders to write about the empty stands at women's sporting events.