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<p>The sports in which women compete that aren&#8217;t silly and that are actually fun to watch suffer from the problem of going head-to-head with a much better viewing alternative: namely, the men&#8217;s versions of those sports. Because, let&#8217;s just cut to the chase, at the elite level of sports (and, really, at all levels of sport except pee-wee), men are, on average, simply faster and stronger than women. Why the hell would anyone of sound mind want to watch a gimped version of his favorite sport when a more electrifying version already exists? This elementary logic escapes the feminist hivemind.</p>
<p>Furthermore, many of the sports in which women compete and men don&#8217;t, and which are tailored to women&#8217;s particular strengths, are unwatchable by dint of being retarded. See: synchronized swimming. There are only a handful of female-oriented &#8220;&#8221;&#8221;sports&#8221;&#8221;&#8221; that women compete in at a pro or semi-pro level which garner fairly large, if transient, audiences on par with the audiences that men&#8217;s sports regularly achieve. Figure skating is one example (and that mostly because women like the fact it is set to music and colorful, bedazzled costumes are worn).</p>
<p>Really, the only reason men choose to watch women&#8217;s sports at all is for prurient reasons, such as the exciting but rare glimpse of a wardrobe malfunction, or the slo-mo replay of pertly bottomed volleyball players diving into the sand. Otherwise, men will pass up women&#8217;s sports as long as a men&#8217;s sport is on another channel. The dirty little secret is that, among the subset of women who legitimately like watching sports, most of them will also prefer to watch the male versions of their favorite events.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not anti-female athletics. Women should compete in sports, especially femininity-sharpening individual sports rather than competition-emphasizing team sports, primarily to sculpt their figures into beautiful, sexy visages that will help attract the attention of alpha males. Stay focused, ladies.</p>
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