(The funny part is, as far as I can tell, on the Ceeb (heh), men's and women's curling is broadcast fairly close to the same frequency. I always managed to see more of the Tournament of Hearts than anything else.)
But anyway, yes. There's something that is said routinely about women's basketball in the US about how men don't want to watch women being better at a sport than they are, and my first comment is "£$%^&*&^%$£"*. My second comment is, you do realize that slightly over 50% of the population is female, don't you?
And of course they don't care, because the entirety of television, EVER, is based around the male 18-35 demographic. Which is how we end up with G4 and Spike** and other random cable channels screaming, WE DON'T CARE ABOUT WOMEN EVER. (Like SciFi actually thinking that "Eureka" is only watched by men. Suuuure.)
I tried to play snooker once, although we didn't know it was snooker -- we just thought it was a really big pool table with some weird combination of balls. I spent nearly 50% of my honeymoon playing pool (American-style 8-ball, apparently), mostly with a Red Stripe in hand.
*I have a British keyboard, so I apparently curse in British punctuation. **I actually like Spike, sometimes. They run James Bond movies and Star Trek frequently.
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Date: 2009-06-22 02:01 am (UTC)But anyway, yes. There's something that is said routinely about women's basketball in the US about how men don't want to watch women being better at a sport than they are, and my first comment is "£$%^&*&^%$£"*. My second comment is, you do realize that slightly over 50% of the population is female, don't you?
And of course they don't care, because the entirety of television, EVER, is based around the male 18-35 demographic. Which is how we end up with G4 and Spike** and other random cable channels screaming, WE DON'T CARE ABOUT WOMEN EVER. (Like SciFi actually thinking that "Eureka" is only watched by men. Suuuure.)
I tried to play snooker once, although we didn't know it was snooker -- we just thought it was a really big pool table with some weird combination of balls. I spent nearly 50% of my honeymoon playing pool (American-style 8-ball, apparently), mostly with a Red Stripe in hand.
*I have a British keyboard, so I apparently curse in British punctuation.
**I actually like Spike, sometimes. They run James Bond movies and Star Trek frequently.