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[The Straight Story]

169. Well, we can agree on something

And personally, I wish they would focus on sports like Chess as well and people like Susan Polgar (and her sister) who have done a lot for women in chess (back in my tournament days it was rare to see a woman at a chess tournament).

I live on Ohio. All they talk about are the buckeyes. The men's football team. Which I do enjoy - but the women's basketball team gets little praise (and they rock). Thing is though they don't get enough support from the fans. Women fans flock to the football games but not the women's basketball games (they do have decent crowds but sales of merchandise, etc, focus on the one big sport here).

Go anywhere here on a saturday during football season and you will see men and women wearing jerseys that relate back to football. Not the many other sports be they men's or women's.

And I get that. I don't expect my friends to wake up at 4am to watch the world chess championship live from India with me. Nor do I think I will see post after post on FB about the moves, or replies to my post about the games.

I don't see sexism, hatred, etc in any all of this - just something simple. When I was in high school most kids played football or were cheerleaders and such. Few of us cared about chess. That carries over into adult hood. Most care about the football games, the glamour of it, and it is fun.

Once more, my problem comes in with people assigning motivations to everything where if you don't (or do) like x you hate women.