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[thewritingcoroner]

If there's anything that'll turn me into a toxic man-hating lesbian it's women's athletics.

Like okay yeah ball size in women's rugby is the problem and totally not the prevalent misogyny in the way women's sport is marketed, shown, and trained. Sincerely fuck all of you.

Like world rugby guidelines talking about "right brain" and "left brain" gender research old enough to vote but refusing to put any thought or nuance into trans player policies and just outright banning trans players altogether? Fuck you.

Sports institutions would rather the "problem" of women's sports to just go away rather than lean into the MASSIVE market there is for women athletics. I mean, Caitlin Clark in collegiate US athletics has made a bigger impact on the world of sports than any big name male international soccer player idgaf.

Like, shattering records and skyrocketing to fame as an athlete in men's sports is like a drop in the bucket of importance to sport than it is to be such a prolific athlete that viewership statistics stagger marketing experts around the world for singular women's games in tiny (comparatively) country specific sports.

What's more impressive, an international soccer superstar jumping viewership by 44% but not even topping number of viewers total from a game that happened 13 years ago, or a college-level basketball player drawing such a huge crowd that she eclipses viewership of the most popular sport in the world debuting the most popular athlete in the world in a new league by 18.5 million viewers?

Over and over and over again women's sports are proving that there's a huge audience here, and yet there's still shit stain men out here claiming women's sports are still "boring" like tell me you never have been and never will get laid without telling me you're a raging misogynist.

Women's MMA is floundering with lack of athletes, women's soccer athletes are struggling to pay their bills, the Dallas area of the US has lost 70% of their adult women's club rugby teams in the last five years. The problem is not that women's sports aren't interesting, it's that men are actively sabotaging women's sports. I'm tired of the distracting discoursers and the stupid rule changes and the insincere concern for athlete safety.

You want athlete safety? Fuck off about trans players and start ousting the sexual predators on coaching staffs and executive boards. Want a faster game? Invent one idgaf. Want advertising money? TELEVISE WOMENS SPORTS.

Women have been screaming into the void for decades about all the issues with women's sports and none of them involved trans athletes or rule changes. Talk about rule changes when you've handled the sexual harassment and assault, the pay disparities, the air time disparity, the funding disparity, the discrimination, the racism, the disregard for world class athletes thriving in their sport.

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