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Girls Basketball Team Kicked Out Of Boys League Championship After Defeating Boys Teams
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I noticed a long time ago that there is "basketball" and "women's basketball" and have considered so much of sports machismo being about male fragility ever since.
Nobody actually cares about women's basketball. Do you watch WNBA?
I don't watch basketball at all, but what is your explanation for that?
It's not exciting. It's boring to watch, at the end of the day that is all it is. I don't watch men's basketball either, but I can very clearly see the difference in the game, they're actually different games entirely.
Be the change you want to see in the world. Call both of them basketball or gender identify both. In other sports, like the Olympics or Xgames, they identify each section by gender, which makes sense in describing what's happening.
I can't change the fact that there's the NBA and the WNBA.
Until they make it the WNBA and the MNBA, my point stands.
The NBA has been around since 1946, and the WNBA was introduced in 1996. They could have rebranded the NBA at that time I suppose, but the league was under no obligation to and why should they? If someone else spins up a business , I shouldn't have to change my name to accommodate them. I'm going to assume in most cases where the sport league is gendered, it's because one league existed prior to the other like in basketball.
Gender equality.
It's not inequality to identify the different leagues. They could have been the, "Alternate National Basketball League" if they wanted, but instead opted to use a clearer descriptor. Also, just because it's labeled, doesn't make it anything lesser and it's not insulting, it's just a literal description of what it is. In ~~internal~~ international competition, they are identified as men's and women's sports, but it would be nonsensical to rebrand a league just because a different league uses a more specific name.
"It would be nonsensical to rebrand" was also what I heard about the Washington Redskins.
"Redskin" is a is a racial slur and is a negative descriptor. "Women" is not a slur nor insulting. These are two very different situations, unless you're insinuating that calling females, "women" is some kind of insult akin to calling Native Americans "Redskins".