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Picture of jazzeykitten
Registered: June 03, 2004
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Question:
Who's going to watch the Olympics this year? I love watching the swimming and gymnastics.

Article from NBCSports.com or visit MSN.com for the full story.~

Some commentators will wonder how women’s sports can be so popular at the Olympics and so obscure the rest of the time. They will conclude that this indicates some fundamental failing of our society that can be traced directly to male attitudes.

I prefer to think it’s because men care about who wins a baseball game between Kansas City and Seattle in the second week of April. Women care about who wins the gold medal at the biggest sporting event of them all.

Beyond that, I don’t care what happens the other three years and 50 weeks between Olympiads. I just know that the Olympics are here, they belong to the women and it’s pretty cool.

Mike Celizic is a freelance writer based in New York and a frequent contributor to NBCSports.com.

Choices:
That's boring...
I love watching the Olympics!
I might watch some of it.

 

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Registered: July 25, 2004
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I've watched everyday of the Olympics so far and am loving it! It's been great. You really see how hard these people work to get where they are. I love to see the races and seeing who wins. It's great to be able to watch people that are to talented.


Jenny
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Registered: January 18, 2003
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I prefer to think it’s because men care about who wins a baseball game between Kansas City and Seattle in the second week of April.

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Pssh, huge generalization. A minority of guys watch sports all the time, and certainly don't watch baseball. And a lot watch the Olympics...I doubt there's a big difference between how many men and women watch them. All my male friends do.


For the most part I have to agree with this statement. I don't like Baseball, in fact I considered one of the most boring sports right next to Basketball. Furthermore I'm curious as to how the writer of this article deems their opinion of "Women care about who wins the gold medal at the biggest sporting event of them all" as plausible with absolutely no backing in his article whatsoever. This is a typical article by Celizic, apologetic in nature, filled with little to no understanding of sports. I'll admit I have a bias against Celizic due to his continuing stupidity when it comes to his understanding of the NHL. If anything this whole entire article sounds like the Celizic is trying to sell women’s sports and at the same time try and score points with feminists.
As for the games, I watch them on and off it just depends on the day.


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Registered: July 28, 2003
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-----"""I prefer to think it’s because men care about who wins a baseball game between Kansas City and Seattle in the second week of April. Women care about who wins the gold medal at the biggest sporting event of them all."""

Pssh, huge generalization. A minority of guys watch sports all the time, and certainly don't watch baseball. And a lot watch the Olympics...I doubt there's a big difference between how many men and women watch them. All my male friends do.


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