re: A few reasons why I cant take women's sports serious

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I'm not trying to totally disagree with the premise of your post by any means but 30 is closer to your athletic prime than 16 or 17.

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Ehh, it matters by sport. Football? Absolutely not. Pitching? Nope. Every other baseball position sure.

My college golf team beat our Women's basketball team in basketball.

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A lot of the players on Alabama's team can and will play in the NFL.

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True but it's a team game. The NFL team will simply figure out who the weak links are and exploit them all 60 minutes. Alabama does have players who could play in the NFL right now - and plenty who never will.

This seems like a pretty ignorant post low key...

The Serena sisters were young and still growing in their craft versus a grow man who's been in the sport x amount of years. Yeah one can argue physical fitness which would be a valid argument. But experience still plays a part

As far as the soccer team scenario, they have U15 soccer leagues that young boys have to go through training, tryouts, and years of playing to get on. Idk if you've ever watch U15 or U17 soccer matches but those kids ARE GOOD. Some actually played this year in the world cup. The female Ausi team usually has to play against boys since there aren't many female teams for them to play against. Women's national soccer players are usually older and not as quick as a kid with "fresh" legs

Either way, using these two examples to say you can't take women's sports serious is pretty ignorant.

A guy I went to HS with was one of the male students the La Tech team WBB team would scrimmage against in practice. He played HS basketball but was never a starter.

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Either way, using these two examples to say you can't take women's sports serious is pretty ignorant.

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I'm thinking OP needs to clarify. Maybe he really does mean what he said.

But I'm wondering if what he meant was: "Reasons I can't take it seriously when people say women and men are equally good at sports."

Yes, there are people who think this (or they at least think women are closing the "athletic gap"). It seems to be part of the whole push toward PC over the past 15-20 years.

But unfortunately, evolution and biology aren't going along with the narrative.

I've played rec league soccer fairly competitively for awhile now. A handful of the guys played Div III, not major league prospects but not beginners either.

One time I had a woman come in as a sub who was 24 and a national defensive player of the year for one of the leading women's college programs. She completely crushed all the guys, including those who had played in college. It wasn't close at all.

That's been my general experience observing women who are at or near the top of a women's sport. They'll get crushed by a male pro, or even a guy who isn't professional but is dedicated to his training. But against a guy who used play in college but is now playing just for fun it's usually the other way around.

Not long ago there was a WaPo story about one of the WNBA players who commented that she routinely got challenged by men in that category and just as routinely stomped them. Then her team found out and told her to quit in case there was an injury.