
It’s always been ironic to me that one of the last perceptive hurdles in equality between women and men's sports has to do with emotions. I say perceptive because I’m not referring to the persistent pay disparities, or the discriminatory treatment of trans athletes, or the many gender-based prohibitions that inform how women are seen as lesser than their male counterparts, but how the in-game actions of women and men are interpreted differently in our culture—how it is we watch them.
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