@GrayGooGirl @stavvers I'm sure that was someone's motivation at one point or another, but certainly isn't the main thing going on. In any case, not having women's sports would mean inequity in things like college scholarships. There's real money involved. (I guess one solution to that would be to not have athletic scholarships, but what about pro sports?)
"excluded from the """real""" league" Women's sports is very much real. (And a lot of "men's" sports orgs don't actually ban women (MLB is an exception).)
I think most men understand that there are plenty of women who can absolutely crush them at any given sport. :)