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Fabulous article. Not just about soccer but women's sports in general. It drives me nuts when people say UConn and women's basketball in general are "boring" to watch.
"But college basketball -- and the Women's World Cup -- is only boring if you choose not to care. The same goes for women's sports. People like Benoit toss out these justifications for not watching women's sports out of some sort of faux sports purity, like he's really just out to watch the pinnacle of athletic achievement every night, like anything less than the "best" and the "fastest" and the "strongest" is somehow a waste of one's time. But this isn't why we watch sports at all; we watch because every game we watch, we have a chance to see something we've never seen before. Dismissing that out of hand isn't a way of demanding the highest quality performance every game (as if that's something that could be done anyway); it's a way of confirming your preexisting biases. It also devalues the actual athleticism on display, and the amount of work it required of everyone to get there."
http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/132376138/andy-benoit-thinks-womens-soccer-is-boring
"But college basketball -- and the Women's World Cup -- is only boring if you choose not to care. The same goes for women's sports. People like Benoit toss out these justifications for not watching women's sports out of some sort of faux sports purity, like he's really just out to watch the pinnacle of athletic achievement every night, like anything less than the "best" and the "fastest" and the "strongest" is somehow a waste of one's time. But this isn't why we watch sports at all; we watch because every game we watch, we have a chance to see something we've never seen before. Dismissing that out of hand isn't a way of demanding the highest quality performance every game (as if that's something that could be done anyway); it's a way of confirming your preexisting biases. It also devalues the actual athleticism on display, and the amount of work it required of everyone to get there."
http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/132376138/andy-benoit-thinks-womens-soccer-is-boring