Football is Female
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They should just have separate all girls teams like we do in Australia
I… Wouldn’t poke that bear, if I were you…
Beside the response I suspect you will get (here), the history of women’s “football” in the US is… Weird, as another Aussie…
So, while I agree with you (though we’re beginning to see a bit of a merger, here, too - see the case of the woman in country SANFL, and mixed gender relays and teams in a whole bunch of “individual” sports), this just doesn’t seem to… Fly, with Americans, and with some of their sports…
It’s a rather jarring thing, but I genuinely see that as a bit of a… “Cultural difference”, let’s say, between our country and theirs, at the moment…
But that’s just my ten cents.
Women’s sports in the US are viewed with a contempt, at least on the internet, that they simply are not, in Australia…
I’m just not sure you would “get it”, unless you’ve lived here, or NZ, or a few other places (Brazil, Spain, Japan)…
It’s just… A whole other world, over here, in that regard.
We have full female leagues over here, for all our major sports, and, for the most part, they’re actually pretty decent.
We’re sort of… About a decade “ahead” of the US, in this regard (soccer and basketball are somewhat different, but even here, they’re just… Seen a bit differently).
I’m not necessarily saying that’s a “good” thing, but it is really, really noticeable, as an Aussie…
I think the difference is that in the US our mens leagues, at least in everything but soccer or like Sumo, are like literally the best in the world. Mens vs woman’s basketball here is a ridiculous comparison here whereas the gulf between the quality of the Australian National basketball league and the girls Aussie league probably isn’t as vast. If both options have a like veneer of amateurism then it’s easier to interchange imo, and less offensive when the local activist sports writers try to gaslight us into seeing them similarly.