As we all know, the recent headlines has been that the Women’s cricket team is doing extremely well in the World Cup tournament. Even though the viewership has increased to watch women play cricket or any other game, there is this chauvinistic mentality to not watch women play sports and where they doing it extremely good too.
Any sport is a combination of strength and technicality. Some require a need for greater strength, some need more technical execution. Some sports are a treat to the eyes like synchronized swimming or floor exercise in gymnastics; while visual beauty is appreciated, the hard work behind it for such perfect performance is looked over.
The application of strength or technical precision or a mixture of these two, on the arena or field and to remain calm in a tension packed zone and perform well too – all these require the sports person to be well balanced in body and mind.
So why the bias in watching women’s sports and especially those when they are performing well?
UmaS Reflections 
I guess the bias is just men vs women in general. While women watch mens’ play, they hardly watch their own gender play!
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I beg to differ there…
Women I know love sports and watch it without a bias or dont watch sports at all – no bias there too 😀 Maybe there are but I am yet to meet them!
This was based on hearing some live comments from the XY chromosome set!
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Ok.
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I guess any reasonable person would understand this, Uma! But, unfortunately, reasonable people are in shortage everywhere!
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True that!
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