Wives watch sports for husband's sake, study reports - Polidicks

[quote]Face it, men, your wife doesn’t really love NASCAR. A study published recently on the sports-viewing habits of married women found that wives were more likely to watch televised sports as a means of maintaining their relationship with their husbands than for their own enjoyment. When married women did tune in to a sporting event for their own pleasure, it was most likely by accident and lasted for only a short time, researchers said. The study, titled “Women (Not) Watching Women: Leisure Time, Television and Implications for Televised Coverage of Women’s Sports,” appeared Friday in the journal Communication, Culture and Critique and included 19 women in heterosexual marriages. Among other findings, the women expressed a preference for short, condensed sporting events, such as those in the Olympics, and said they gravitated toward traditionally “feminine” sports such as gymnastics and figure skating. The women were all interviewed roughly 40 years after the passage of Title IX, the federal legislation that banned discrimination on the basis of gender in public schools and offered women equal opportunities in sports. While women’s participation in athletics has exploded nationally since then, their interest in professional sports hasn’t grown as much as promoters and producers had expected. The study, the authors wrote, tried to explore why this was the case. Household chores and child-rearing, divided along gender lines, were cited as a primary reason. Most of the women said they simply lacked the time to follow sports for an extended period. “Much of what they consumed on their own happened by chance when they had a free moment to sit down in front of the television, and their viewing habits were discontinuous, largely because of household responsibilities that required them to multitask,” wrote the study authors, Erin Whiteside of the University of Tennessee and Marie Hardin of Penn State University. “What we found was that sports fandom for these women was not associated with leisure as much as it was with the maintenance of relationships, notably with the key men in their lives.” In these instances, women said they were most likely to watch football games and NASCAR races. Study participants were between 26 and 43 years old. Of the 19 women, 15 had children at home. The sampling included one black and one Latina. The rest were white. Although the sampling included some former athletes and those who were interested in recreational sports, nearly all of the women expressed little interest in watching, listening to or reading about women’s sports. “Rather, they expressed a passing interest in sports such as gymnastics, tennis, cheerleading and figure skating,” the report said. “Even then, however, most did not say they sought information about these sports.”[/quote] [url]http://www.latimes.com/news/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-women-sports-20120709,0,7693153.story[/url] No shit. Maybe except Soccer mums

Stuff like this is a given. I know girls who'll talk about/play games with me, but in return I get dragged clothes shopping. All part of the cycle of life and tolerance for others.

So you eat your wife out and she watches sports with you. Seems like a fair trade.

[QUOTE=Septimas;36723889]So you eat your wife out and she watches sports with you. Seems like a fair trade.[/QUOTE] If I was married with a wife who was that into 'other' things, the last thing I would do is spend my time watching sports.

Not surprising. Sports are only fun if you're playing them.

I could have told you that without a "study" jeeze... Except for Hockey... but Canada has a whole other set of rules for this stuff half the time.

[QUOTE=DinoJesus;36724829]Not surprising. Sports are only fun if you're playing them.[/QUOTE] If only you could making watching sports television a sport somehow.

[QUOTE=SilentOpp;36724270]If I was married with a wife who was that into 'other' things, the last thing I would do is spend my time watching sports.[/QUOTE] Yes, because your parents are constantly fucking nonstop instead of doing other shit around the house. [sp]Or, y'know, they might equally just be watching TV right now. That's also a possibility.[/sp]

[QUOTE=SilentOpp;36724270]If I was married with a wife who was that into 'other' things, the last thing I would do is spend my time watching sports.[/QUOTE] why are you calling oral sex "other" as if implying it's kinky or something

Sounds just about right. My wife cooks for me so I cook for her.

Seems like the reverse in this family. My dad only watches sports if my mother asks him to.

Not my mother, she's more passionate about (American) Football than pretty much anyone else I've ever known. Far more than my dad for sure.

[quote]Face it, men, your wife doesn’t really love NASCAR.[/quote] nobody loves nascar

[QUOTE=God of Ashes;36725193]nobody loves nascar[/QUOTE] I live in the south and I hate it. The only good parts are the crashes.

[QUOTE=God of Ashes;36725193]nobody loves nascar[/QUOTE] Hey, they know how to crash quite spectacularly! Nothing quite like watching 20-odd rednecks bouncing off each other at high speed.

[QUOTE=God of Ashes;36725193]nobody loves nascar[/QUOTE] Youu take that bak jimmy johnson deserved athelte of the year do you know how hard it is to turn te the left?

[QUOTE=The golden;36726068]As a motorsport, nascar is up there with watching paint dry.[/QUOTE] Hey, Watkins Glen isn't that bad

[QUOTE=zakedodead;36726407]Youu take that bak jimmy johnson deserved athelte of the year do you know how hard it is to turn te the left?[/QUOTE] It's a lot harder than you think from what I've heard. Still a boring as shit sport though.

Nascar deserves better, hitting a corner going 150 miles per hour is serious shit.

Studies like this really advance society

or how about everyone just doing what they feel like?

my mom is fucking [i]crazy[/i] for baseball she's one of those people that screams and runs in place like it'll change anything, hate it

I've conducted a study, and it shows that wives are 50% more likely to have intercourse with their husband if they show an active interest in their husbands favourite sport. The source is what I would do. [editline]11th July 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=cccritical;36727603]my mom is fucking [I]crazy[/I] for baseball she's one of those people that screams and runs in place like it'll change anything, hate it[/QUOTE] How old is your mom, and is she fat? [b]This is purely for my further studies in the area[/b]