Let’s face it, women and sports are not a natural mix. Sure there are women who excel in different areas of sports but historically it is men’s domain. This is perhaps one of the reasons why women — in general — do not like watching sports, too, or find it as a topic when they lunch together.
In my twisted mind, I believe there is great value in getting passionate about sports mainly for the fact that sports foster team building, which to be frank, women are not also good at. Oftentimes, women will bitch at each other even if they are working towards the same goal. I know there will be some of you women out there who will not agree with what I’m saying here but in my own experience, we spend more time analysing who needs to lead, what needs to be done, even though we have already selected the leader, and why the heck the others selected her to be the leader. Because by nature, we love to think and analyse. Sports also encourage competition; something that women do not lack of but for reasons I’ve stated before, we have the tendency to even compete with our own teammates.
If we could give sports as much as passion as we do shoes, I reckon that we’ll gain an advantage over men. Why? Simply because we can do so. Women can ‘invade’ this world without giving up our lipsticks and handbags. We can watch football matches and grunt in front of the telly while baking muffins without dimishing our very identity. Men, on the other hand, can’t even do high heels properly!
So, what am I ranting about here? Simple really. This is my expression of a wish that women should be more passionate with sports, any sport (except cricket) that is. That we should not find it awkward to talk about it over lunch or crumpets. That if and when we do, realise that it would give us an advantage in the battle of the sexes.
im so lucky Mitzi loves sports…we just watched the Final Four of the NCAA last night and she was the one who reminded pa that it was on TV