I really admire women athletes. Their dedication and disciplinegive me something to aspire to.

However, I have never once watched a women’s sportingevent on television, and the only live ones I have attended were myfriends’ basketball games in high school. Women’ssports are boring to me, and apparently almost everyone else, aswell; just look at the television ratings of the WNBA compared tothe NBA. Come to think of it, I have no idea where one might find awomen’s basketball game on television.

Personally, I am not interested in women’s sports forvarious reasons. Men’s sports are on a different level thanwomen’s. They’re faster-paced, more physical and menare better then women in athletics. That’s right, I said it:Men are better at sports. Don’t agree with that? Prove mewrong.

No women participate in men’s leagues such as the NBA, NFLor Major League Baseball because they cannot compete at the samelevel &- period. Golf leagues, namely the PGA, have recentlybeen infiltrated by women. However, when given the chance tocompete, Annika Sorenstam wasn’t good enough to play with theboys, and she is supposedly a phenomenal golfer &- for agirl.

But what’s wrong with that? Is it not good enough to bethe best woman golfer? When women (or even an individual woman) canbe the best or even competitive with both genders, then we willhave a different issue.

My biggest problem is with women who insist on being allowed into men’s leagues. Men don’t force their way intowomen’s leagues, so why should women want to be inmen’s? There is an argument that women have been suppressedall this time and having women’s leagues helps to bring themup, but it won’t be right until women and men competetogether. This is garbage. The only thing holding women back fromcompetition with men is their own lack of physical capabilities.Women are, generally, naturally smaller and less muscular than men,especially in the types of muscles and size required for games likebasketball and football. There is nothing wrong with that.

Having men and women as equals is a no-brainer. But thatcertainly does not mean that a woman has to do everything a mandoes and men have to do everything a woman does. Quite frankly, Ilike the men in my life to be men, not sensitive, blubberingsissies. I want them to be stronger, bigger, and tougher than me.Forcing men to let go of their masculinity and women to shun theirfemininity is doing more harm than good, making both men and womenconfused about and perhaps even ashamed of their gender-specificcharacteristics.

A woman is not less of a person because she is not as capablewhen it comes to sports, just as a man is not less of a personbecause he cannot give birth. Men and women are different, and weshould be embracing and celebrating our differences rather thantrying to become alike.