hmm. this strikes me as an unhinged and excessively mean-spirited take. sports are morally neutral. some people care about them a lot! i don’t, and i find them kind of mystifying, but that has more to do with my own interests and proclivities growing up than, like, an inherent property of sport. sport is not an evil hobby. it’s just people playing games, which is fine. i think it’s bad that it cannibalizes so much time and attention and funding of educational institutions in the united states, and that those institutions exploit the hell out of their student athletes, because they make money off of them. and i think some specific sports, like american football and boxing, are much too dangerous to continue to be played in anything like their current form (CTE is by all accounts a pretty awful disease!).
but a lot of people like sports and are good at them, and saying a source of joy for so many people should be destroyed because you personally don’t enjoy it is just being an asshole. and claiming sports has some intrinsic misogynistic or evil telos is weird. there’s nothing about kicking a ball around for fun or profit that inherently makes you a bad person.