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Originally Posted by Birdrm
Actually, I do enjoy watching the women play because they are much closer to my golf game compared the the guys on the PGA tour. When I see a woman hit a 7 iron 140 yards that is about what I would hit, not like the men hitting a 52 degree wedge from 140 yards!
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The answer? Whether it is the LPGA, the WNBA, Women's Association Football, NCAA women's basketball, Women's full-contact football, flat track roller derby, Women's gridiron football, lacrosse, the WTA, or whatever female league we're talking about...is simple. those leagues succeed or not, not because of the skill of the individual female contestants in whatever league we're talking about, but because of the financial subsidization they get (or not) from the MALE counterpart of whatever sport is under discussion.
We, as a race, are hardwired to value male attributes such as speed, coordination, strength, and teamwork. Virtually every Olympic sport as well as many others have that as the primary value. As far back as the stone age those male attributes were the deciding factor if the tribe ate or not, were slaughtered or not by the tribe in the next valley, which tribe got the best cave for the winter, etc. etc. The female skills were of an entirely different type: child raising, assuring domestic tranquility, making sure which kid belonged to which guy, cooking, medicine (such as it was), etc. etc. We, as a species, place value on the relative contribution each gender provides to the whole. There is a reason that the Miss America pageant doesn't (as far as I know) allow drag queens to compete.
Look. I enjoy seeing Maria Sharapova playing tennis as much as any other red-blooded guy, but let's be honest. Maria didn't land the title of the highest-paid female athlete because of her athletic abilities, extensive though they were. Would she have attained the popularity she enjoyed, and translated into dollars, if she'd have played her tennis in a pair of denim coveralls? Answer is obvious...and VERY telling. Whether we want to admit it or not, our race places importance on what each gender contributes, and we have no more control over that than we do the weather.
You can't fool Mother Nature.