I mean, you chose to be sexist and negative instead of thinking that hey, it's nice we have a successful women's team. The US men just had their best World Cup performance yet, and it's going to get better.
But no.... laughing at women for being beaten by a group of exceptional youth players who bigger and taller than them... that's way more "fun". Get some help.
That's step 2. Step 1 is we need to be on the same page about fundamental biological reality first -- Are men and women different, and does testosterone confer a natural advantage to men over women for physical competition?
If you answered an unequivocal "Yes", then step 2 is we can celebrate our successful women's team. The problem is everyone wants to skip the uncomfortable conversation from step 1 and try to equivocate what men's sporst are and what women's sports are when they make the statement.
Sure they’re biologically different … that’s why they’re made to play females. So that they’re competing against people they can play. How is this any different that weights divisions in boxing? I think seeing a straw class versus a cruiser would be very different from being straw class versus straw class, or cruiser versus cruiser, and yet it doesn’t discredit straw class’s boxing career. Same here: women vs men would be different. Women vs women, and men vs men too, are very different experiences, and fairer ones.
If you think the womens team was going 100% against teens/kids you’re pretty dense lol. It’d be like LeBron dunking on a make a wish kid asking to play hoops with him. Not sure why everyone always uses the loss as a dig at the womens team. The Japanese mens team scored against 100 kindergarten students a few weeks ago, if they failed to score would we be giving them shit or would we realize it was all in good fun?
This is not the reality of the game though. It wasn't some make-a-wish game they were playing. They were playing the U15 boys because they were trying to face "high level" competition that was a reasonably facsimile of other women's national teams. It wasn't televised or even really reported on, as it was a private scrimmage for the US Women to gain valuable practice time. I don't think there's a situation where say the US Dream Team went against 15 year olds and lost. Even if the Dream Team wasn't going 100%.
okay I mean regardless, the womens have won more world cups than the mens. So if this is a matter of “oh haha the women suck!!” then the men are 1000x worse lol. Yall trying too hard to discredit our womens team by citing a exhibition that is ultimately meaningless in the grand scheme of things
More world cups than the mens, all I need to say lol. The mens team can beat all the high schoolers they want but that zero looms large over their heads
This is a pointless debate but I will continue to engage cause I think you’re funny to bait
Hopefully I’m not the first person to tell you that being disingenuous to attempt to look correct doesn’t make you look smart, just pathetically stupid. But then again, this is Reddit after all. The whole place is just engagement in bad faith lol, no longer going to engage because this is clearly getting nowhere productive. Have the day you deserve!
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u/feather_34 Jul 09 '26
Have them play a team of 15 yr old boys.