On Football

AAARRRGGGHHH

Have forgotten what it's like to live in a "football-obsessed" society. The most important team of the city I'm currently living in has won some championship or other. People have gone bonkers. They have been making noise all night and scaring the hell out of my poor cat.

Why are people so... DUMB?. Football is entirely MEANINGLESS.



It doesn't add anything to the world: it doesn't improve people's minds souls or bodies in any way. And it takes millions of bucks, not to mention millions of hours from millions of fan's lives. It gives me the chills to think what the world could do with all that money and human resources. The end of poverty, maybe?.
I do try to see at least one positive thing in the existence of football. Someone may say that it drives people closer to achieve a common goal, even if that goal and the way to achieve it are meaningless in their nature. It IS true that people in a team DO GET CLOSER (emotionally speaking) and feel part of, ehm, a team. But one musn't forget that, while it drives so many people closer, it draws some other people FURTHER. Yes, I'm talking about the RIVALRY that is created between different teams. And as an argentinian I know how dangerous that rivalry can be. Where I come from, it has taken more than one human life. And compared to a human life, football fades into insignificance.
If anyone is thinking that the death of a few nuts/fans aren't enough to justify my anger against football, then you are partially right. I wouldn't be so mad at it if it weren't because of the SEXISM that is present in football. Oh, yes. Let me remind you that the football everybody loves is formed ENTIRELY by MEN. Not a quarter of the resources or support goes to women's football. But you know what makes me agry the most?. WOMEN FOOTBALL FANS. The ones that you see at football matches with their TIGHT team shirts, showing their inconditional support to the much loved team. "But couldn't it because they simply like football?". If so, why not give their support to WOMEN FOOTBALL TEAMS. "Well, maybe they were BORN liking a particular team and don't want to change it for any other one". I seriously doubt it. You don't see baby girls with little FOOTBALL TEAM's t-shirts, do you?. No, the love of a woman for a specific team is born approximately at the age she starts looking at boys and wondering how she can get close to them. Why am I so skeptical about the honesty of women's love for football?. Because it's something created BY and FOR MEN. And there aren't many examples of, let's say, chick flicks or make-up created by and for men which women absolutely adore. NOP. So now, men have it all: the chick AND the football without having to compromise to do something "she wants" in exchange. Great, isn't it?.
It's always the same old thing: from war video games to pornography, women wind up learning to like what is made BY and FOR MEN, but the opposite, men learning to like what is made BY and FOR WOMEN is never true.