By
Audrey DeAnda
As a woman who loves sports, the one thing that gets to me most is when men don't give women athletes respect.
It's funny how most of these meat-headed men making obnoxious comments about women athletics don't even play in a competitive sport.
Women athletes are making great strides, and the best display of this can be seen in the WNBA.
A showcase of some of the top women athletes in the world is in the WNBA. The athletes in the WNBA play fundamental basketball, the way the game is supposed to be played.
Some may say women games seem boring, but that's because people are used to watching showboating ball-hogs who are only in the sport for money.
Many people have forgotten the concept of basketball because of how the NBA has evolved.
The NBA is filled with self-involved people who have forgotten the meaning of the game and who have only one person in mind - themselves.
The WNBA games show players working together, spectators can actually watch the offense run plays and the women actually play (here's an unfamiliar word to NBA players) DEFENSE.
An NBA player's idea of defense is to let the other team score so they can get the ball back.
Sure, NBA players can "drive the lane jump over a player and dunk the ball with authority," but that's only because they are allowed to take 10 steps to the basket. It's ridiculous what players can get away with.
I do admit, the NBA does have spectacular dunks and power-driven plays. Men are stronger, they were made that way. But these women are still incredible athletes, and they're only going to get better.
The Houston Comets may not be the equivalent of the Michael Jordan-led Bulls teams of the 1990s, but give the league a break - it's only been around for four years. The women and the teams will evolve to where they will eventually be able to compete against the NBA.
Do you think the NBA always had monsters as big as Shaq? No, the league has gone through phases when the stars used to be tall and lanky players like Wilt Chamberlain and Bill Russell. Just like the NBA, the women's league will attract stronger players and develop into a more powerful league.
More importantly, the WNBA is a revolution for women everywhere.
The league is filled with classy ladies who are role models to young women all over the world. Men as well as women should look up to these ladies; you don't see any WNBA players choking their coaches.
So while some might call the WNBA "below the rim" basketball, with "over-hyped" players, the only thing that's over-hyped is chauvinistic, sexist men who get on a pedestal to critique a league in which they wouldn't last a week.
