# Culture Shock: Men play football better than women...

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**Created:** [August 11, 2012, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-shock-men-play-football-better-than-women/631143 "2012-08-11T01:50:06Z")
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### Author: ![RedFury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2012, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-shock-men-play-football-better-than-women/631143/11 "2012-08-11T04:38:10Z")

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> [@Marley23](#):
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> …This was:  
> The thread was about the women’s Olympic soccer final, not a comparison of men’s vs. women’s soccer. So when you said anyone who prefers the women’s game doesn’t know the sport, you were threadshitting. Your comments in this thread make it that much clearer.
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> And this is not the forum to argue the comparative merits of men’s and women’s sports. You can open a Game Room thread about that, but ATMB threads need to be about moderation or the rules.

Thanks but no thanks, **Marley** – obvious is as obvious does. That said, what you left out out of that quote is precisely what I am arguing about in so far as moderation:

> [@Japan - USA Olympic Final](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japan-usa-olympic-final/630991/11):
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> I’ll not speak for Airman Doors, but I will say that as much as I love soccer played by men, women’s soccer does offer an overall cleaner game with fewer fouls, almost no diving, and a lot less whinging on the field in general, and all this nowadays without sacrificing anything in the way of athletic excitement.

See? I was _responding_ to said comment in the second quote. Thus if I am going to be accused of “threadshitting” for your second cite you’d have to look at the context in which I did so – meaning, _as I am showing you_, that it was preceded by someone else making an off-topic comment.

That said, note that I am NOT asking for the warning to be rescinded, but rather _proving_ that it was uncalled for. If that makes me persona non grata around here just say the word. I neither beg nor crawl.

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**Oakminster** , appreciate your comprehension on the matter at hand and understand your bowing-out due to my rather brusque ways – but I don’t feel I need to be polite to anyone who tries to lord over me just because they feel they can; nor those who think they can poke me with a stick in a thread they have zilch to do with. I am who I am, and shall remain so till my last breath.

Best always.

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