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Originally posted by Sherlock Holmes
Originally posted by Nosred
Yeah but you can find anything like that on the internet. If I searched "Electric guitar in the shower nude" I'd probably get thousands of results.
Yeah, but try searching for female tennis players' ''upskirt shots'' compared to male tennis players' ''upshort shots'', and I think you'll be sorely disappointed.
The fact of the matter is that women's tennis is only ''big'' due to the sex appeal of some of the players.
Why do so many people want to blatantly deny this obvious fact ?!
Originally posted by ColoradoJens
But then they would be bad badmitton players and the market for it is kind of tenuous...
Originally posted by FatedAxion
Men's sports are all about raw masculinity and testosterone fueled chest-beating for the most part.
Originally posted by FatedAxion
Women's sports generally take a more subtle taste to appreciate.
Originally posted by FatedAxion
As for women's sports being inferior versions of the men's sports, I'll take women's tennis, golf, or soccer over men's any day. Those type of sports just aren't as conducive to raw masculinity as, say, American football or hockey, and it shows.
Originally posted by Sherlock Holmes
reply to post by ColoradoJens
Badminton is a hugely popular sport in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, China and some other parts of Asia.
A couple of centuries ago, people in my country invented the sport as a way of playing indoor tennis without the need to worry about breaking windows, furniture and vases . Over the years, though, it has developed into a very big worldwide sport, which has been fervently adopted as one of, if not, the most popular sport in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore.
Badminton appearing on one of your cable or satellite networks is not the result of some producer deciding to put a ''wacky'' minority sport on TV to show the US viewers.
Indonesia, with 240 million people, is the fourth most populous country in the world, after India, China and the USA. Malaysia ( 25m ) and Singapore ( 7m ) are economically advanced countries that also have great $$$ opportunities in televising badminton.
Add to this, the fact that the sport is reasonably popular in China and India, but the arrogant American attitude is still to assume that a minority sport in your country equates to that sport being ''small-time'' in the rest of the world.
Sorry, that's just not the case.
Badminton sponsoring is big-business in populous parts of South-East Asia and South Asia.
edit on 2-6-2011 by Sherlock Holmes because: (no reason given)
Lee Chong Wei has already achieved an annual income that exceeded RM1 million. When asked what he'd do with all the wealth in the world, he answered, "I'd go crazy (laughs). I wouldn't know what to do with all that money. To me, health is much more important than money or power."