a funny thing for me personally about this discourse is i have a family member who always used to get mad when people would bring up women's sports (funding or pay disparities between female and male athletes and such) and say shit like "the fact of the matter is people just dont care about women's sports. It doesn't make money. people want to see men play and that's all there is to it." and not that guy suddenly cares a fucking lot about women's sports.