Football is Female
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Yeah, you may be right.
This is like the AFLW in Aus (activist central), or, similarly, our women’s national soccer team…
The rugby league, union, basketball and netball women have almost none of those issues, though, lol…
Oh, except Liz Cambage. But she’s just a fucking garbage dumpster fire of a human being. Like Rapinoe, but absurdly racist, instead of a queer, lol…
Same narcissism though, I grant you that.
But yeah, women’s sports are massive, in Australia, at the present moment. At least in the media. Like, absurdly, I can’t even verbalize how absolutely everywhere it is…
Also para sports. I’m just not sure it’s quite at the same “level” for you guys…
But part of that is just because Australians, myself included, are fucking obsessed with sports, more broadly, lol…
But yeah, for context: I would say there is solidly… 12-14 hours a week, of womens sport, on network TV in Aus, right at the moment (excluding the US Open and the cycling)..?
Compared to probably slightly more for mens, but the point still stands.
It’s a massive market here, dude.
He is right. I don’t have problems with female leagues but I think the push back is due to the constant pushing of activism when all people want is sports or with WNBA being told that we are bad people for not watching. But the recent college softball championships had good ratings
Full disclaimer: I’ve dated women who play sport at a fairly high level. Regularly…
Greatest chick I’ve ever met (long story. “Loved and lost”) is a women’s footy player, and a schoolteacher, so that… Probably goes against the trend, here.
Some of my friends have also been involved in women’s sport (yeah yeah)… Or, obviously, mixed.
My family is very involved in sport. Mostly women’s. Some men’s.
Sport is… A far bigger part of my life than it probably is for a lot of people, Australians or otherwise.
So… I’m not necessarily “unbiased”, here. But I did try to keep my comments as objective as possible, in that sense.
Some people really care about vidya, or movies. I really care about sport. Because politics is a fucking losing game, lol.