By: Harvey
As the NCAA men's basketball tournament gets underway today, I am reminded of a question that pops in my head every year. . .
. . . why aren't there more office pools for the NCAA women's basketball tournament? Why don't people get so worked up about that?
Of course, then I remember that the answer is simple: nobody gives a flying fuck about women's college basketball. It fucking sucks.
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Thank you for noticing!! Why don't people get excited for women's sports? I like how you specified NCAA MEN'S basketball. Most people, including newspapers, simply say NCAA basketball when they are talking about the men. This really pisses me off. The men get the general title as if the word basketball refers to them. Yet women get a special little tag just because they are women.
While I appreciate your comment, I think you missed the gist of my post . . . which is basically that nobody cares about women's basketball because it is tremendously boring to watch compared to men's basketball.
Harvey
Then why did you waste your time with that blog? The fact that you even posted about women's sports means that you notice them. And you were calling attention to them, which is great. And I complimented the way in which you wrote the blog. I'm sorry if you stupidly didn't realize the impact of the word men in front of basketball.
I'm sorry it took me this long to notice your reply.
This crusade you are on is certainly a noble cause, but let's be totally, brutally honest for a second here.
It is not the media's fault or anybody else's fault that women's basketball doesn't draw the attention of men's basketball. Men's games are simply more entertaining to watch. There's a reason M*A*S*H lasted 11 seasons and every show with David Spade gets canceled after a year. It's the same principle.
Don't get me wrong — I don't doubt the effort given by women who play college basketball, and I certainly don't doubt how much it means to them to be able to play and get a college education at the same time.
What I do doubt, however, is that there is some anti-female conspiracy driving the popularity of the men's game.
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