I'll just get it over with and say what everyone thinks but is too scared to say:

Nobody gives a shiat about women's sports because women are inferior athletes* and schools should be allowed to spend money on sports programs based on the revenue those programs generate and nothing else.

*Womens' world track and field records across the board are equivalent to the world records for 14-15 year-old male athletes

Some Bass Playing Guy: Wow. There's a whole like of jackasses in this thread.

I'm not much of a fan of women's sports, myself, but the deserve the opportunity to participate and compete. I don't give a shiat if women's sports are "popular" or big revenue generators.

Title IX means women get that opportunity.

The only thing I think most get tired of is how the try and force it on the public, the WNBA is a massive failure but nobody acknowledges it.

Unless they are hot and wearing spandex I just don't care.

Wow, the chauvinism is suffocating in this thread..."waah, let's exclude half of the world's population from any sort of athletic activity because we don't want to watch it!" Note: just because you don't like it, doesn't mean it shouldn't exist, or that our colleges should get rid of them because they aren't money-makers. The people griping that men are being hurt by this are just coming up with excuses...if men really want to play something, they'll go to a college that has it. Same as women. No one with true athletic ability in a sport will suffer because of Title XI. If you have a problem with it, instead of getting rid of Title XI, get rid of sports in college period. Then you don't have to worry about fairness. More women go to college than men (http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2010-01-26-genderequity26_ST_N .htm) by a ratio of 57% to 43%, so it's women who are paying more college costs, anyway. This has nothing to do with whether men or women are equal at athletics, and everything to do with small-minded trolls who like to perceive hurts against their entire sex because of some government mandate that they would have never even heard of if ESPN didn't gripe about it daily in regards to college football.

/yes, I am a college football fan
//get tired of the "pay athletes so we don't have to see our program hurt by arbitrary NCAA violations!" arguments
///take your hate out on the NCAA, not women

Incidentally, I'm a huge fan of athletics, but I think it's about time we start considering funding sports in OTHER WAYS. This country is becoming disgustingly fixated with sports, and parents would rather see their kids, boys AND girls, participate in them than obtain a worthwhile education.

ZoSo_the_Crowe: Nobody gives a shiat about women's sports because women are inferior athletes* and schools should be allowed to spend money on sports programs based on the revenue those programs generate and nothing else.

I agree with you that women are, for the most part, inferior athletes.* But I disagree with the the idea we should withdraw funding because of that. The goal of sports isn't just to train good athletes. That's why a lot of schools have JV divisions: pretty much everyone can compete regardless of athletic ability.

I mean, really, should we stop funding remedial math education because those kids are never going get a chance to design a space shuttle? We don't pick just the best kids to study math because it's extremely useful. Likewise, participation in a sport is extremely useful.

*though interestingly, while women have awful track and field records, they compete head-on with men in ultrarunning.