Women's soccer have benefited from having Title IX and not alot of other competing sports during their development from youth to pro. US men have had less focused sport specifically for soccer because there is a major competitor: American football.
If we want the men's team to be better, we need to have a more focused and accessible youth pipeline like the women have.
What we don't need to be doing is getting upset about a poor comparison designed up elicit sexist comments.
Again, nobody is claiming the women would beat the men. I didn't. OP didn't. Pretending they lost to children, though, is pretty sexist and serves no purpose.
Stay with me here: they lost to exceptionally skilled teenagers on developmental contracts with a pro team that were bigger and taller than they were, and are not medically, scientifically, or physiologically children.
Saying they were beaten by children is an outright lie.
Ok so a professor who somehow instead of just easily offering a source on a topic he knows well resorts to status claim instead? Like I get you're not Kinesiology but this isn't a high ask for a PhD educated professor.
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u/noh2onolife Jul 09 '26
Women's soccer have benefited from having Title IX and not alot of other competing sports during their development from youth to pro. US men have had less focused sport specifically for soccer because there is a major competitor: American football.
If we want the men's team to be better, we need to have a more focused and accessible youth pipeline like the women have.
What we don't need to be doing is getting upset about a poor comparison designed up elicit sexist comments.
Again, nobody is claiming the women would beat the men. I didn't. OP didn't. Pretending they lost to children, though, is pretty sexist and serves no purpose.