Is it wrong (sexist?) that women’s sports don’t get much attention?

Is it wrong (sexist?) that women’s sports don’t get much attention?

This is admittedly a question that I’ve had trouble answering. Preferences are sometimes hard to define, after all. I don’t think that women’s sports not getting as much attention as men’s sports has anything to do with sexism ... though I do believe there is plenty of sexism going on in the world of women’s sports … which is why the most talked/written about female athletes just so happen to be the best looking among them.

I think a lot of what it comes down to is that men are simply more athletic than women and thus if you’re going to watch a sport, for example basketball you would rather see the taller, faster NBA star running up the court to dunk the ball than you would a WNBA star make a lay-up. I don’t mean anything sexist by that at all, it’s been scientifically proven that men are more athletic than women and you really can’t argue with science, no matter what certain people say.

According to livestrong.com, the average man is five inches taller and weighs 30 pounds more than your average female. The same site states that males also run faster than females and that psychologically men are both more aggressive and have higher self esteem than women. All of these factors play a huge role in why men are more athletic than women and thus prove the main point of why women’s sports just don’t get as much attention.