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- February 22, 2009
Why is womens football world cup getting coverage on the BBC and Eurosport?
David asked:
Are the BBC and Eurosport afraid of being called sexist? This is political correctness gone mad.
Are the BBC and Eurosport afraid of being called sexist? This is political correctness gone mad.
I was flicking through the channels a few nights ago and I saw womens football world cup on BBC, and the standard was god awful. Not to mention that most of them are ugly and probably lesbians.
It was some of the worst football I’ve ever seen in my life. I’m all for equality, but women and sports don’t go well together. Now if all the women at the world cup were replaced by models in bikini’s rolling around on the grass, then I might change my view on womens sports. Ok the quality of football would be poor, but womens football is lacking in quality anyway so we wouldn’t notice any real difference.
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7 Responses to “Why is womens football world cup getting coverage on the BBC and Eurosport?”
i think its important they get coverage, but i do agree that its getting a little TOO MUCH coverage in my opinion…
both ESPN and ESPN2 preempt programming to show all of the games… i don’t think its at the level where it needs to be aired on multiple channels, i’m just saying…
and yeah, the standard is nowhere near the men’s game, true, but i think women’s sports need to be shown, but even more so to be supported by OTHER WOMEN…
more men watch sports than females, period, and the guys that usually watch female sports do so because somebody hot is playing…
that’s not a viable business model…
you need more female viewers, but the majority of the female population is tuning out leagues they should be supporting… so after fighting for equality, they’re not even celebrating it in a way…
kinda sad…
By That Guy on Feb 24, 2009
gotta love female footy
alright the quality aint top notch but footy is footy
seen worse watching Chelsea and United this season
By EVIL ANT on Feb 25, 2009
Are you sure you’re watching the women’s world cup????check out Brasil, Germany, Norway, England. The games are brilliant. keep watching now that they’re in the knockout stages. They’re only going to get better!!!
By littlepeculiar13 on Feb 28, 2009
At least ESPN and ESPN2 are covering the games at all. They are on two channels because there are 16 teams playing, usually with two games going on at the same time. And this is the World Cup - the biggest showdown of these teams!
By the same token, we could ask why American college football is being shown on nearly 20 channels every Saturday in the fall. Do we need to see all of those games? I don’t think that the “standard” is up in all of those either. Yet you watch because you enjoy the sport.
You have to admit that the quality of play in women’s soccer has improved drastically over the past ten years. The sport has grown leaps and bounds in the U.S.
By keeper0137 on Mar 1, 2009
What are you people talking about?
Some of the games I’ve watched were very entertaining. The AUS vs. CAN game this morning was worth getting up at 5AM for.
Pre-empting programming? At 5AM, there’s nothing on, except re-runs of heads from last night. Oh, so you’re a big “Mike and Mike” fan, huh? Get over it. You can miss a couple hours of what is mostly meaningless drivel anyway.
This evening, I tried to watch some of the Chicago/Dallas MLS game. It was nowhere near as fun to watch as the games this morning.
That and the skill level at this World Cup is leaps and bounds better than the previous WC, well for most teams except the US at least.
By H_A_V_0_C on Mar 3, 2009
it’s not political correctness gone mad. it’s called “sports channels’ producers GET A BRAIN!” now cookies for everyone! **spiteful tone**
look, ‘dave,’ who cares if the players are (according to you) ‘ugly and probably lesbians’? first off, the point of watching women’s football isn’t for their looks, it’s for their GAME. second, the sexual orientations of female footballers cannot be assumed at a glance, as since it doesn’t matter even a bit, then you lose either way.
anyway, the point is, women’s football isn’t as good as men’s, yes that is true for the most part. but that is only because women have less opportunity to play, and when they finally do get the chance, all that happens is this…perverted males ogle at the pretty ones, and the scarce actual fans are ridiculed. so of course it isn’t going to be taken as seriously.
lucky for us women, we don’t care about public opinion.
GO WOMEN’S SOCCER!
and by the way, a man who ridicules women’s soccer because he would rather see almost-nude women rolling around in grass is not exactly a “high-quality standard” who we would listen to. not that you’re a complete imbecile and pervert, or anything…
dcunitedgirl / lucia maritza cole
By dcunitedgirl on Mar 4, 2009
I’m glad to see football get any traction period.
Some of the Women’s world cup has been horrible.
Some of it has been really fun to watch.
Just relax, and if you hate it so much just go for a walk, or if you are in the US sleep in and ignore it.
By Kermit Solo on Mar 5, 2009