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Message: [QUOTE="LwrcasefaN, post: 4331584, member: 11185"] I guess where we differ is I don't care what type of game it is. It's a game and that means something, until....it's artificially deemed as something "more". And I'm not willing, nor do I feel that I am entitled to decide which of the two competing entities is more important to "the girls" as opposed to which are more important to me. We're not talking about life and death choices here. We're talking happiness. Perhaps we take sports too seriously at the expense of other things that are more rewarding. There's a lesson there. It doesn't mean people don't understand commitment. It means the formula for happiness, fulfillment, or whatever you want to call it....isn't the same for everyone. I'd also add that if they didn't feel some sense of commitment to their team, they would have skipped the game altogether. It's not as if they went into the locker room and decided to leave at that moment. This was a planned absence. Most of these players, regardless of gender, aren't going to make a living playing sports. And if "girl" athletes aren't being taken seriously, I doubt it's no different than what women experience in general, on the playing field, in the classroom, or in the boardroom. [/QUOTE]