nothing https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/davidberri/2018/03/18/lets-talk-about-whats-truly-wrong-with-womens-college-basketball/amp/ Tune in and watch UConn beat Duke on Saturday.
Women's basketball is not as popular as men's because women have a different physiology which makes for a slower, less powerful, less exciting and aesthetic game. Has nothing to do with male sports writers, bias or the like. The only bias is bias in favor of good basketball versus mediocre basketball; comparing the games side-by-side, the women's game is a dumpster fire. That's why it's not popular. There, I said it. Now, take some other sports, such as ice skating and gymnastics. In those sports, I'll take the women's every time, because their bodies are better balanced top to bottom, that's the way they're designed, and it makes for a more artistic and aesthetic performance. Women are just objectively better, and it shows up in the fact that women's gymnastics and ice skating are more popular. Take distance running (which emphasizes, of course, endurance, which women have, pound-for-pound, ceteris paribus, more than men) or reflex sports such as marksmanship or motorsports, there it's about a draw (motorsports) or a very slight difference (marathons, ultramarathons). Some of the greatest drag racers in history have been women, because their physiology is well-suited to it, they tend to have somewhat quicker reflexes than men. Anecdotally, even though I am a former varsity university boxer and later tournament table tennis player (Mr. Reflexes--when the bottle of whatever falls out of the fridge, my hand snaps down there like a snake and I catch it, virtually every time, I'm not kidding), yet I marvel at my wife's reflexes, she beats me head to head. People like what's good, what's aesthetic given the parameters of the sport. In some sports, that's men, in some sports, that's women, in other sports, not a major difference. Women and men are different--thank God!
Well you've offered some interesting opinions and I might even agree with some of them. Referring to women's basketball as a "dumpster fire" is pretty hyperbolic and the fact that you, a man, somehow believe that male sports writers are not biased in favor of men's sports is pretty predictable. I would rather watch Crystal Dangerfield lead UConn through another flawless fast break than watch some hulking 7 footer throw down a zero-skill dunk over and over. On the other hand, I admire Curry's ability to shoot the 3 with such remarkable consistency. In any case, men's sports v. women's sports wasn't really what the article was about. It was really about people (including most male sports writers) taking the easy way out by saying that UConn's dominance of women's college basketball was bad for the game. Analysis: It isn't. At least no more so than any number of other streaks in sports history.
Not a dumpster fire except by comparison, as I said above. The men's game is generally lightning quick and played above the rim. I admire Curry's ability to nail a three also, but he wouldn't get half those threes if he couldn't create the space for his own shot with absolutely explosive moves. Again, that's why the women's game is about as interesting as watching old 1930s films of men's basketball. It's slow, generally plodding--at least by comparison. I could not possibly care less what gender is running up and down the court, completely meaningless. I care about the game played brilliantly, aesthetically--and there's where the women's game does not measure up. Not by a mile (just as the men pale by comparison in gymnastics and ice skating, their poorly-balanced bodies holding them back). That said, I know that the average college women's player would've destroyed me at my level best, back in my city league, college intramural days. Once in law school some friends and I were playing pick up ball at the university gym and a female classmate who'd played women's b-ball for an Ivy joined in on the opposing side. When the ball went up she yelled "Shot!" and backed her butt into me with such sudden force I was gasping for air, then a few minutes later, there she was putting a reverse layup move on me. So it's not like I think I could do it better. And yes, of course that dumpster fire description was hyperbole, a time-honored Jewish tradition--e.g., specks in the eye versus beams.
