Why do men like to watch sports more than women?

Well, your question actually only applies to general people. In most cases, men like sports more than women (just look by the number of the athletes in the world, the composition of male and female athletes). But there are many cases also where men don't like sports too much compared to women. There are a lot of women love to watch sports also. This nature depends on how they (women) were raised when they were child. If they were born as a member of family-athlete, usually they very like to watch sports. Other possibilities, they were raised as the only female member (with the mother) in the house and other family members are like to watch sports.

I understand what you're saying. I think it starts at an early age. While guys are encouraged to watch and participate in sports, women are not, so much. I've always been a total tomboy and I love sports, not only to watch, but to participate in. Also, the popular sports are exclusively men participating.

As for me, I do not care that much for sports. I am sure that your father and brother are simply jsut excited to see there team win or score a point. I do think men are into sports more than women but I could be wroung.

i think because this is one peaceful and decent way to see who is the manliest of all . i mean i guess it is human nature to prove he is the best in one field and i believe if given the chance the men watching that particular would be playing the sport they're watching if given the time, physique and most of all prowess and talent for that sport .

Men see sports vicariously. The relive the moments of their youth when things were interesting. When they could be the hero. When they could 'win' the game. This is also why men tend to get hooked on video games. They really can win in the video game. They can be the knight in shining armor who defeats the evil dragon. Or the super hero, who defeats the evil master criminal. Whereas life otherwise tends to be rather dull and boring. Get up, go to work, come home, sleep, repeat. What are you doing tomorrow? Well I thought I'd get up, and do some work, come home and then go to bed. What about you? For example, I make electronic boards as my job. How do I do this? I press a button on a machine, and watch it work. When it spits out a board, I check it, and push it into the oven to bake. When the machine runs out of parts, I feed it more. Exciting isn't it? A trained monkey could likely do as good a job. So, in order to escape the pathetic worthless boringness of my life, I play video games. There, in the video game world, I can win! I can be the hero! I can save the girl, defeat the monster, and so on. Life can be interesting in a video game. Similarly, this is why men like sports. It's an escape from the boring-ness of life.

History tells us that man provides all the work for his family. Old sports was generated to show mans power, strength, speed and cleverness. You can see that in the history of early Olympic games. They are originally intended for men, thats why its the men who watch them. Women in the old days are lock in their homes and never participated in public occasions. Had to admit that our old folks made the wrong decision on this one, right?

I don't like watching sport of any kind at all, I find it totally boring. Probably a reaction to when I was young and forced to watch it (especially football) - put me off sport for life

I don't think that all men are like this, but some are. I am a woman, and don't like to watch sports unless it's rodeo, or gladiator, the mxe games, or bike / skateboard jumps. Even so I don't make a point to watch it unless it's a marathon for like mxe games.

i guess it's like a man thing, some need to watch it to feel moncho. but i really dont watch sports, the only one i like is baseball but i cant sit and watch a whole game because i get bored to easly

well when i first read your question i definitely had to respond. because i am female and I love to watch sports. Every play within a game is important. So that i felt was innacurrate. Sports are a good thing to watch and is a great past time for both females and males. some women dont like sports, and i think that is sad if you have a husband that likes them becuase that is time youare missing out with them.

I like watching football but not so manic as everyone else

Hi. I'm a woman who loves to watch sports. I watch the NBA particularly. Anyway, I guess men are more competitive in nature when it comes to showing off strength and agility than women. I guess, it is all in the hormones . Testosterone is usually high when people watch sports and since men are more wired to testosterone, they get all riled up when they watch sports.

Men is all about physicality and test of strength. Sports is the only legal way to test ones strength and also most likely to give information on how others handle things in sports. Women are gentle being and usually loves music and melodramatic things

i don't know, maybe beacause men like to see what they want to become in a future, muscles, easy succes, and other things, also the feaver to stay with friends and screaming to the gamers. Here in italy the 99,9% of men like soccer, and for them this thake the 90% of a conversation witho their friends, the other 10% are insult or other stupid things. i'm a man , i'am 19 years old, and i don't like this "famous" sports like soccer basket or football, i like the bow competitions, and airsoft,( or softair). some sports that one can enjoy and there are no money behind them, we are all friends.

I have seen that men watch sports more compared to women. I don't know that reson for that. All of us at my home are intersted in sports, but my Dad and brother are two people who can never miss a cricket match. We, the women team, started watching sports because the men team wants to watch that. Cricket is my favorite sport.

No I won,t agree with this women also like watching sports even participating.....in many sports..and doing better than men....

Hi I guess we really watch sports more than women, i think because it excites us more i think mostly because at some point or the other we have playing something or the other, but i guess women watch wrestling more than we do

Same here. My husband would spend almost whole day just watching basketball on the TV. Thoughbhe have seen it already and it is only a recap he will still watched.I do not understand it also. IO usually get bored watchin sport. I am more interested with the entertainment.

hi~ friend , this also happens to my family too . my father and i love sports very much ,and we won't miss any sport games on tv ,but my mun and my sister don't like it at all , my mother even had quarrel with my father because of this . this problem did not solved untill now .haha , have a nice day !

Yup I totally agree with you. Men do like sport more than women. Women prefer the "milder" side of life such as ballet, knitting, gymnastics, child care, etc. While men are excited by sports competition to prove to themselves who's the better man amongst them. Most sports are made for men but I noticed that more sports have their female counterparts nowadays. So, probably by the century, more women will be engaged in sports.