If you read my earlier links Italian clubs have achieved 60,000 plus for big women’s matches. Certainly Wembley is pretty full, with lots of girls and families, for cup finals.
I've never been, but any broadcaster would be missing out on a slice of the pie but not broadcasting those if those events are as big as you are say.
And despite playing in some inaccessible outer suburb some way from their main ground, the Chelsea team regularly sell out. This game could be sold out many times over. They would sell out StamfordBridge.
Yes, that's how it works. Teams start off small and they work their way up; hence the reason why Chelsea women are playing in a smaller ground. If their games are selling out, then that's an indication they need a bigger stadium (which they should have the financial muscle to do so, if their games draw in so much money... this is just capitalism 101). And then if their games continue to bring in more and more people, their stadium will bigger and better.
No team ever gets handed a huge stadium on a silver plate. There's no reason for Chelsea Women to have access to Stamford Bridge (and indeed, vice versa). For all intents and purposes, they are separate clubs, linked by the "brand name" only.
This one is unthinking cultural misogyny, pure and simple. There are no excuses.
Doubtful. People are motivated by money, not gender politics. Surely you have noticed that most men don't even know what feminism is.
Have you actually been to a woman’s game, or even tried to get to the women’s ground from SW6 in less than an hour. Or do you belong to that branch of feminism which thinks women should simply accept what men offer and apologise for even asking for more. I may be being harsh, but you really do seem to have a McKinnon take on women’s sport. As if our daughters don’t deserve equality.
Less than an hour?? My daily commute to work is an hour! I would have thought that driving 2 or 3 hours to an "event" is normal. As I said earlier, dad takes a flight at least a dozen times a year to see his favourite football team. Why does a football team need to be less than an hour away from your post code?
Chelsea in fairness are shite at the community thing. DD has recently switched her allegiance (apart from the women) to a club which champions their women’s, youth and wheelchair teams, even their eSports team in a long term bid to embed within the community. One day the Chinese TV money may dry up, and teams will need their (ethnic, female, etc) community support. Chelsea’s arrogance got to her. Plus she was impressed that her new team have equal numbers of men and women’s loos. The joy of seeing a half time queue for the men’s whilst women walked straight in.
There you go, capitalism at work. So it is equal because anyone can choose what sports teams they go to see, and what sports teams they don't see.
If you don't engage with a sport, or a sport team, they don't get any money.
Sports teams you do engage with get more money and grow bigger.
There are events, sports, and activities I would love to see on TV, but they aren't. I accept that because I know things I am a fan of aren't all that popular, so I settle for internet streams instead.
I am also not a huge fan of football. Yet it's everywhere. TV, newspapers, magazines... but again, I accept that, because I know it's the country's biggest sport.
It's not that I'm "settling for less," to use the words you quoted from McKinnon (I don't know who this is). It's just understanding that an event you like is not as big as a different event which other people like.
But the only way to get your event to become bigger is to grow it at the grass roots level. You have to go to games, and you have to do your own part to generate more interest in the event. Take a look at Super Smash Bros... it's massive, and that was grown ENTIRELY at the grass roots level.