so, this is obviously inappropriate, unprofessional and just plain gross. but there's something else happening overall I want to do discuss.
so, this is obviously inappropriate, unprofessional and just plain gross. but there's something else happening overall I want to do discuss.
I am extremely curious to see how the generalized culture around this country changes because we are in a space beyond hoops that we just haven't seen. Which is that a US women's professional team sports league could have a markedly dominant *cultural* market share.
like, none of us have ever really lived in a space where for the WNBA, which is necessarily the specific point here, has like UNDENIABLE space in just regular everyday life that changes the priority of the male gaze entirely. There are MANY men who are simply not ready for that.
dont get me wrong. this growth is awesome. but I can tell you from life experience, nevermind as a sports journalist that there is still very much a patina of "that's nice for the ladies" to ALL of it. we're far closer to "these women control the zeitgeist, period" than we know
and that just changes so many things, specifically on the professional level, that a lot of markets on going to have to find a way to properly adjust for and maximize in terms of just "what are we actually doing here" because this aint going backwards, kiddos.
like, bottom line here is that the cultural shift in sports journalism has yet to be invested in enough to change the way the average person consumes things on the ground more deeply. short version: dudes aren't really ready to just not matter at all in the space.
those TV numbers are plain impossible to ignore in terms of the amount of people who care, at all, nevermind will continue to care more. How we take care of the people who have invested their lives in this beyond just wether or not some old guy is having fun will be fascinating
@clintonyates Are you talking more about NBA players not mattering in the cultural space, NBA media and fan media, or both?
@clintonyates “Dudes” never mattered in the WNBA. Not sure what space you’re talking about, but a rise in female sports does not directly take away from male sports. This is not a zero sum thing.
@clintonyates Or even for women’s sports to reach equal-to-men’s status
@clintonyates You over thought this and killed the mood.
@clintonyates Why do I feel like this word salad gave me a stroke
@clintonyates Hate to say it but because dudes make up the majority of viewers they’ll inevitably matter most. For better or worse, the viewers of sport make the industry. The overall makeup of the consumer market would have to change for dudes to ‘not matter’ in almost any commercial sport