# 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: ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2012, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-shock-men-play-football-better-than-women/631143/9 "2012-08-11T03:49:22Z")

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If you’d been modded for your first post in the thread –

> [@Japan - USA Olympic Final](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japan-usa-olympic-final/630991/9):
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> Congrats on the US win, but I surmise you are no fan of the men’s game, correct? Different sport after all.

You’d probably have a point. That one was a bit sarcastic but wasn’t threadshitting. This was:

> [@Japan - USA Olympic Final](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japan-usa-olympic-final/630991/13):
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> Just confirms what I’ve always suspected – the US woman’s team is successful; therefore they are “awesome football players.” No actual football knowledge needed.
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> Need any confirmation?
> 
> There you go.

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.

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.

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