tri_yoda wrote:
echappist wrote:
The rest of your post, the less said about it the better
truth hurts right?
the only way to really get people (I mean men, because it is very clear women don't care about womens professional sports in any meaningful way or there would be about 100X greater ticket sales and TV revenue) interested in womens sports is to make them more interesting. "Professional" women riding bikes as fast as many of the guys in an amateur local/regional road race is not interesting (ever see how many people pay attention to the guys in these races, nobody, actually even less people than pay attention to most womens professional sports).
But I can see that causes lots of contortions for those sticking to the story that "they are just as good and capable as the men" (which we scientifically know is not correct), because the only way to make them interesting would inherently involve accepting the inequality and then using that as an advantage or leverage to create interest. People are smarter than you think, when you want to systematically create false narratives around something, they will often just ignore you.
Which, is also the answer to this original thread (why is no one talking about........)
Hey Matt, I think your post came across quite condescending towards everyone involved in women's cycling. I think you could have left it that the depth of field is not quite the same as in men's racing and therefore different tactics can be successful, which I believe everyone gets.
The reason why the depth of field is not the same as in men's racing is overall women's access to sport. We all have countless women friends, who simply can't go for a run at night, or a solo ride on country roads so they have this additional barrier in front of them getting into sport. Furthermore, young women are not glorified for their athletic prowess like young men, so boys in youth sport stay engaged, and a lot of very promising women athletes just drop out and focus on things like academics or social pursuits.
So what you see on the road in terms of depth of field is simply an outcome of overall global society putting barriers in front of women doing sport.
Is women's cycling exciting? To me that is like asking if women's FINA world's swimming is more exciting than men's or an IAAF diamond track meet women's events more exciting than mens. I can personally watch all three individual sports and get equally excited about women's racing as mens (especially in the pool and track).
I think you go back and read your post and just suck it up and apologize that the delivery of your message was just poor. Talking about throwing in low cat men into women's race is just a demeaning slant to your position. It was totally unneccessary. You can do way better than that.