Women in sports: athletic prowess vs. looks

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I can't help my self. Ultra endurance sports Marathons of 50 miles or longer.

Alaska’s Iditarod, the ultimate ultra-endurance sport, an annual 1,200-mile dogsled race from Anchorage to Nome, is frequently won by women.


Remember the late Susan Butcher who won the Iditarod race several times through inclement weather and all manner of obstacles? That's endurance!

By comparison Alaska's former first husband Todd Palin, using a snowmobile as opposed to a dog sled, was zooming through the artic night on the thing like a Porsche on the Mulsanne straight at Le Mans and hit something hard. Very hard. There may not be a direct comparison here between male and female athletic performance gaps as much as a glaring- and scientifically quantified- difference between the sexes in risk taking.

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I like college football.. That's about the only team sport I like to watch.

I do like watching individual athlete type sports you see in Olympics... who can run the fastest, which swimmer will touch the wall fastest etc.. And in those cases women sports are no less exciting than men's.

Judged sports like gymnastics...meh.
 

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To be more blunt...

Women's professional athletes are essentially at the level of elite high school boys.

Unless that changes, eye candy will always be an element of the appeal.


Hey now! I started playing sports at age 4, by the time I made it to high school, there was no "girls" team, for the sport I played aka soccer, so, I ended up being the only female on the team all 4 years. We won state all 4 years & it landed me a college scholarship. So, the statement that female athletes are playing on a high school level = WRONG!