Re: Scott, sports, my big mouth

[davidmci@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (David McInerney)]

 Wednesday, 6 Dec 1995, Lisa wrote:


>and to David:  Yes, sometimes the observable gender difference in
>sports interest is emphasized into a kind of irritating standing joke
>here.  Shops run adverts about sales for temporary "basketball
>widows" during the playoffs, clubs have male strippers for
>"deerhunter's widows" night and other such nonsense.  Plus, monied
>and management types play golf and do deals in social clubs that are
>still allowed to exclude women, so there are indeed a few real issues
>around gender/sports.  lr
>

Lisa, I hope I didn't give a wrong impression about sport in Australia.
While women are interested in sport and participate both in playing and
watching cricket, their cricket (like their soccer) is treated like a bit
of a joke by the media and by the vast majority of cricket and soccer fans.
My point was simply that one could not assume that women are not
interested in baseball or any other sport played by men.  This is different
from the question of interest in sport played by women.  It is this latter
aspect where our attemtion is most fruitfully focused ...


Mr. David McInerney,
Political Science Program, Research School of Social Sciences,
The Australian National University, Canberra, A.C.T., AUSTRALIA  0200.
e-mail: davidmci@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; ph: (06) 249 2134; fax: (06) 249 3051




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