“an Olympiad with females would be impractical, uninteresting, unaesthetic and improper.”  -Baron Pierre de Coubertin, Founder of the Modern Olympics

Everyone gets offended by this, but is he correct?

Impractical:  Extravagant displays of sport are not cheap. Every modern Olympics loses billions of dollars(Tokyo 30bn).  If we compare it to professional sports, we can see that no one watches women’s sports. If you don’t sell tickets, you don’t make money.  An olympics of men would probably be profitable, like men’s professional sports are.

Uninteresting:  From above the fans vote with their feet, the WNBA loses 10million dollars a year, even after slick accounting tricks.  As I always say the only women’s sport that makes any sense is beach volleyball.  I suppose we could add gymnastics and figure skating, but not for the ‘right’ reason.

Unaesthetic:  Unfortunately we have lost our sense of feminine beauty and redefined it to idealize the female as a greek god statue.  If our aesthetics were based on the God-given purpose for women, their super power, having kids, we might find muscle bound women who probably can’t have kids due to the stress their body is experiencing, unattractive.  If you have never appreciated the soft beauty of a woman with no sharp corners as Edmund Burke instructs us,  I can’t help you.

Improper:  From all the numbers I have seen 80-90% of female athletes think they are lesbians.  Which, to use a sports metaphor, is like showing up for a game of one-on-one and no one has a ball.  This is about as improper as it gets, as far as I can tell.  Are hyper competitive women loving their husbands and their children?  That’s a hard no.  First most of them avoid both.  And those who get married: 80% of divorces are filed by women, in a culture where domestic violence is falling like a rock, before COVID.  And these divorces are leading to destroyed children.

Baron Pierre de Coubertin was correct, even if you are just offended.