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Message: [QUOTE="JoePgh, post: 2045178, member: 1131"] You don't even need to imagine an alien species to make your point. Why didn't everyone lose interest in who "the world's fastest human" is as soon as it was pointed out that Secretariat could beat the fastest human in a mile-long race without breaking a sweat? Someone might have pointed out that even the humblest horse (even a filly!) could do the same thing. Did that make it less interesting to know who the world's fastest human is, and to watch male sprinters compete for that title? As I implied in the previous post, the reason (I think) is that young male humans like to imagine themselves as the world's fastest human, and root for some male athlete whom they admire to achieve that distinction. But young male humans aren't going to empathize with a female competitor, and young female humans probably aren't going to care about the whole subject anyway. And young adults are the target audience who make or break a sport's popularity. [/QUOTE]