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[QUOTE="KnightBridgeAZ, post: 2737478, member: 591"]
While your over-arching point that you can't have a sport that you think men should watch and everything that goes with that sounds good, I do have some comments about the rest:
- I would hope that the beat-down by that U15 boys team did have some mitigating factors.  I agree that women cannot compete successful against men's teams in most - probably all - traditional team sports.   But that is not who the women are competing against.   They are competing against other women.
- The perception that the competitive level is so far below the men's game really reflects what part of the sport folks value.  When I watch women's sports - even sports I don't care for - I don't see any particular lack of skill.  Can they do the things that men can do in most cases - no.  In hockey maybe they don't skate or shoot as fast, in basketball they aren't dunking, in soccer they aren't (I assume) doing those over-the-head kicks, etc.  But I've seen plenty of great shots and stick handling in Women's hockey (a sport I don't particularly like  (but don't hate, either)), I love Women's basketball and I don't like soccer - men's or women's, but I've seen clips of very exciting women's competitions.
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