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Women’s Sports Just Aren’t As Entertaining As Men’s Are

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02.03.2026

Now that the winter Olympics are over, and people are done “celebrating” the amount of medals the US won, I have to ask whether or not you watched any of it? Probably, at least some. But did you watch a lot of it? Were you excited about skateboarding in skis or some random traitorous American who accepted millions to compete for China? Women won a majority of the gold medals, mostly in “games” that are boring to watch and people don’t care about, because women’s sports are boring. 

I gotta be honest: I didn’t watch any of the women’s hockey games in the Olympics. In fairness, I didn’t watch any of the men’s games either, at least until the gold medal game, which I watched all of live. It wasn’t because I didn’t care about the men’s team, anyway, but the games were not on when I could watch, or pay attention, because I was working. Were they, I still probably wouldn’t have watched. 

Women’s hockey is just not interesting to watch. I don’t say this to be mean, I have two daughters and if they ended up playing hockey I’d watch all of it and enjoy it, but not knowing anyone on the team left me disinterested. The men I’d heard of, as a former hockey player and fan of the NHL, I follow their game.

No, the women’s game was slower, they wear full cages, the........

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