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This reads as a blunt dismissal that reduces women’s sport to looks and spectacle rather than athletic value. It can be taken to mean the speaker sees the women’s game as lesser by default, a view that lands as contemptuous and sexist, especially in a setting where the point should be competition, not comparison. In conversation about equal respect in sports, it exposes a mindset that judges women before watching them fairly.
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