Should Women's Professional Sports be on the same Pedestal as Mens Professional Sports???

Question

Just wondering.

Answer 1

What. Are you thinking feminism should force people into liking something they genuinely dont enjoy as much as what they obviously enjoy more.

lol Good luck with that.

Answer 2

Sure.  But, the world of sports remains highly oppressive against women and wholly based on the male body and martial / hunting behaviors.  We'll have to start including new sports, 50-50, that revel in the FEMALE body and physiology, too.  I can think of a few.  Ballet while pregnant.  Swimming while lactating babies.  Fitting through a ten-inch diameter tube in a half-mile race.  Running the one-mile without waking a carried newborn baby.  Sensing with our fingertips the earliest possible contact in tactile sensitivity contests, 12-shuttle tatting in finger dexterity contests, a visual contest for recognition of increasingly finer shades of color, and so on.  Why should sports just revel in the male's body in martial / hunting skills competitions?  I am ALL for integrating FULLY women into sports budgets.  I am actively involved with a consulting organization that is teaching American school boards about how much money they would save by eliminating all football from their school systems and redirect those funds into co-ed swimming and ballet.  Wonderful idea.  It's backed by like the AMA and a growing list of health care / nutritional / U.S. military research projects in progress related to addressing the epidemic of obesity in the U.S. and prevent the total collapse of the health care system by rationally spending school sports budgets in the MOST cost effective way with the most health benefitting outcome.  That was the part about ending football and integrating the guys in more healthy sports such as swimming and mandatory ballet.  Thank you for asking this question about holding women's professional sports on the same pedestal as men's professional sports.  I'm ALL for integration.

Answer 3

No.

Answer 4

they have just as much potential to be,  but people aren't interested. And sports are all about entertaining people.

Answer 5

There is no reason they shouldn't be.  However, there may be more market value for men's sports at this time, because the public is accustomed to it.  This will change, but change will be very gradual.

Answer 6

Sports that have more viewers are going to get more attention.  That's just the way the world works.  To say that ESPN should place women's lacrosse on an equal basis of coverage as the NFL is absurd.  

If you're talking about respect, women's sports shouldn't be disrespected more than men's sports.  They work hard too.  

But you can't force people to watch sports they don't want to see.  I'll watch women's college basketball, but I'd rather watch men's.  I have a lot of respect for the women too, but I just think men's basketball is better viewing.

Answer 7

No they should have their own pedestal for their champions. I love lady swimmers, sprinters etc. I want the cream not the homogenized.

Answer 8

No, professional sports are not that important. I don't care if it's men's sports or women's sports. There are other things I would rather be doing than sitting and watching a game.

In response to another post, those cheerleaders are often would-be entertainers who are hoping to get noticed. You really should watch "Making The Team" regarding young women who try out for the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders. Very few of those women can even name a single player on that team nor do they know anything about football. They have other reasons for wanting to be cheerleaders.