Posted by Bippity10:
That's the point I was trying to make. Everyone is joking but anytime you joke about a situation like this it gets blown out of proportion. These women can play basketball. They are very good at what they do. Some of the players are actually more basketball talented, and well rounded than there male counterparts. But that doesn't make it exciting to watch for the casual fan. The "casual fan" wants dunks and high flying action. I personally don't like watching the WNBA. It's just not exciting to me. I've tried, I've been to the games but I just don't like it. I've been called sexist because I don't want to watch it. That's ridiculous. I don't like Horse racing does that mean I am biased against short people. I don't watch hockey does that mean I hate ice?
As for Cheryl Swoopes coming out. Once again a non issue is being turned into an issue. Ask people in your office, random people on the street and 90% of them will say they don't care. The other 10% will be guys that just want to see the lesbians get naked and make out!
As for your game and you being a female athlete. There are still a lot of people that disrespect women and their game. But the majority of people don't. They have much respect for the women's game as you can see by the ratings for the Women's Olympic team. But until you can put a consistent product like that on the floor, noone is going to watch. Learn to laugh at yourself, most people on this post were joking.
If you read my post carefully I was not referring to the majority of the posts that we made. I also chose not to specifically mention any names either. You guys can be pretty funny a lot of the time. And then theres an occasional post that is so far out of line that I will choose to say my peace.
I think I can trust my judgement and my sense of humor but thanks for your concern Bips.
As far as which sports to watch, I didn't issue any mandates on that so rest easy. I dont watch many WNBA games on the regular either but I dont see it's relevence to Swoops'decision to come out of the closet.