yes, women only care about shoes and children.

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I agree. Because the males species are by nature more active, competitive and confrontational than female.

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Yes, I agree. It's predominantly male as in most sports. Men love a challenge and when they are cheering for their team, they are challenging the other team. Women tend to shirk from challenges. Unlike men, they believe sports ought to be a social event.

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Yes. Sports in general, esp. team and contact sports like soccer, are traditionally associated with boys and considered "masculine", so it stands to reason that fans of the sport will be predominantly male as well. However, if you consider the reason that one follows sports is because of the social bonding aspects, then you can see that the trend is that there are more and more female fans. Here is another good article on the subject http://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/getArticle.cfm?id=1987

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Yes. -Innate male aggression (sports serves as a "safer" outlet for release) -Need for bonding

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Yes, this is true. Refer to answer to Q1 (where he said, Escape. Drawback to childhood fun)

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Yes, although there are more and more female fans. Its probably a cultural thing with men being more competitive by nature.

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Yes. See answer to 1 (where he said males are predominantly achievement / result driven individuals. The competition in sports and the immediacy of the results appeal to a basic conquest instinct.)

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I think it's a bigger percentage of males but not necessarily predominantly. And with time, women are getting more sporty as well. Certainly the rise of media darlings/whores and good-lookers in soccer help pull in the "masses".

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The machismo thing.

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Nah, I think that is changing. In the not too distant past, only guys played soccer but now girls are picking it up. As a spectator sport, girls are evening up the numbers even faster. Generally though, guys still tend to be more fervent though. Generally.

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Can’t really agree that sports fans are predominantly male because I know of many girls who are following netball, golf, tennis. Of course there are girls who are fans of football because of their boyfriends or husbands, and because they are attracted to pretty boys like Beckham or Cannavaro (in the past), or they are really into the sports (rare). Or maybe guys are sometimes so one-dimensional that to get into their psyche, you have to talk football.

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Yes. It's just a view that society attempts to imbue in the young - that girls should focus on areas such as studies and "girly" things while guys are conditioned to like sports. I guess perhaps it could be genetic as well - guys have testosterone in their bodies which predisposes them to such sports.

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sports is for male and shopping is for females, traditionaly. but this is changing

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I am not sure if the information is so true outside Singapore. Many females at football games in other places in the world. Its a community event.

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Sports feeds a fundamental need in the male psyche - competitiveness and camaraderie. Even competition by proxy.

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Yes I agree. Mostly male. Err...because girls like to stay clean and smell nice? Hell, I have no idea.

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true but only in team sports, i believe have more male supporters.

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Yes, it's a testosterone thing i.e. physical nature, aggression, etc

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Yes. Males just love mindless displays of physical one-upmanship and competition. It's a possible singular passion(they're not as communicative). And it's a temporary suspension of their sordid realities.

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Yes. must be from our need to get physical. testosterone? anyway getting old so need less physically demanding sports.

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True, but not as overtly male as before; in any case, not in Europe. When France won the World Cup, the French simply went crazy and a lot of women simply got pulled into the inexorable flood of patriotic fervour and social pressure. Moreover, more and more sportsmen --- Beckham, Federer, Schumacher, etc --- now painstakingly groom their image and have become real stars, and many women find them attractive. Moreover, with movies like Bend it like Beckham… But, yes, sports is more or less still a male dominated domain. Probably it’s more a male thing, to be stronger, faster, and to win, like being in some sort of war. After all, aren’t sports a surrogate for war?

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Not really. I bet there are a lot of female closet fans who are simply afraid of being labelled tomboys if they ever admitted they watch soccer. There might be a slight majority of males, but I have met my fair share of females who love soccer as fanatically as my male friends.

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I believe it's something to do with the need for competition and the instinct of survival of the fittest. Sports allow us to bring out that old macho feeling lying dormant in us males.

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Won't say all, but most. Y? brings out the competitive spirit in us, n the male bonding thingy!!

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soccer fans, probably yes. all sports fans, probably not. there are sports where women predominate too. netball's one that comes to mind immediately. soccer's traditionally a male dominated sport. there probably was a period of time where men actively discouraged women from showing interest in the sport in order to feel MALE. in the past, even among segments of the population now, it wasn't/ isn't considered feminine to be interested in sports. so just as herd mentality drives men to show interest in sport, the same mentality drives women NOT to show interest in sport.

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Yes. Until recently, football was predominantly a sport for guys, this i think had a long standing social impact on forming spectator groups. I think ladies who watch football either love the handsome looking dribblers on the green pitch, or they themselves are actually informed about football and/or involved in football themselves.

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Agree, once more, mass conditioning, this time, on the part of girls that soccer is not something for them.

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Agree. Answer similar to Q1, as a result of both nature and nurture.

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Yes, at least for Singapore it definitely is. The soccer taking a huge majority of the screen time is predominantly male. Female soccer is shown less frequent, therefore, women cannot relate to soccer as something for the female gender, other examples include basketball, rugby and cricket.

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yes, may be male are more active

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yes.... girls dont like to get dirty and rough....

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No way. That's the stereotypical view. I know of so many female frens who like footie (not for the cute bums) and can explain offside, 4-4-2 and golden goals )

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This is not true, especially if you are speaking about all sports in general. While I believe that more men than women follow sports, I do not think the difference is so large that you can say that sports fans are predominantly male.

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Yes, of course. Guys are more interested in sports than girls do.

As explained in 1, I feel that guys prefer those more 'violent' stuff. Things like war films, fighting films and disaster films interest us. We are visual animals, and we want things that can stimulate that adrenalin rush in us.

Some girls do not actually like these 'violent' stuff. Therefore, the act of '22 men fighting over a ball' may not really interest them.

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Agree. Same answer as the top - sports is physical competition, and physical competition attracts men. Its the genes, stupid!

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Probably so. And I get the feeling that soccer fans are more pervasive amongst men, perhaps because soccer is synonymous with masculinity, and not being a soccer fan and/or not keeping updated with soccer news makes you less of a man.?!?

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Yes, I do agree, but it is a changing trend I guess. I think males identify more with soccer, or sports in general. And if, as a male, you don't, then peer pressure kicks in. "i dont watch soccer, therefore i am a sissy, or they will think i am one anyway"

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It is a macho thing whereby one combines sweat, hard running with guts and determination! The football jersey is a classic turn on of the male alter ego.

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Yes. More males than females enjoy following sporting news. Females prefer reading comics strips.

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There are female sports fans, but most sports fans I've seen are male. I don't know if it is a coincidence, but as a female, I simply do not have any interest in seeing people compete against each other as I do not see how sporting results affect me or humanity at large, other than providing pride and glory to sportspeople and their countries. I cannot pretend to be able to speak for all men and women though.

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No.

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Agree. Its the most familiar sport in singapore, for boys.

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Yes I agree. Being a sport fan is a gender stereotype towards man and women will be associate being to butch if they were interested in sports or watch to much of it. I think its a changing trend and will balance out soon with more women getting involved in sports and more women leagues being organized.

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Yes. Parts of the answer may be found above.

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I agree. I think it is because they find it entertaining seeing other males playing games with each other. Though, they may as well enjoy seeing females playing other kind of games with each other.

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Yes, the males may think they are part of the game as their supporters, cheering for the fav team.

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yes. Instincts... male are more competitive. Nature selection

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It seems that way, going by the noise downstairs whenever there's a game on. But then again, I've known my share of female fans. But then again, I don't really know since I don't really care for sports (why are you taking this survey then?! you think =P)

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I agree that the large percentage of them are male. maybe because men have always enjoyed participating and watching stuff in the sporting arena more than women. i personally know females who don't watch soccer because they don't understand the game, or the appeal of watching it, and would rather spend time doing what they enjoy more - typically female things like manicures and shopping. i think they represent a larger group of women in singapore who just have no interest in soccer.

then again, i think there is an increasing number of females watching soccer for a variety of reasons. many do because the like certain players or teams, and then there are those who just watch it because their partners do as well. whatever the case, i do observe more females i know following soccer than maybe the last world cup.

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See the answer to question one

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Same for porn. Mostly male, I presume!

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disagree

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Historically, yes. But i see more and more female fans, including my sisters, friends, etc. I guess sports used to be seen as a male preserve, women were discouraged from it (just like women were discouraged from being soldiers or engineers). But as more women have become exposed to sports, though schools, friends and family, many have discovered they like it. Its possible that men and women enjoy slightly different aspects of the game - e.g. women are partly drawn to it by cute players - but I'm sure some of the appeal is similar for both genders.

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yes. socialisation since grade school...role of father in fostering habits...do think you're fishing for it's the male thing, aren't you?

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Yes. Maybe it's a culture thing passed down from generation to generation.

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don't know, probably testoterone

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yes, because it is a macho thing,.

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The image that had always come with sports carries a certain degree of masculinity. Female that are active in sports are frown upon. The attentions on female basketball players, tennis players with bulging muscles and the term "she-man" and etc have all but killed many females interest in sports. It is view to be unladylike, unglam, for a lady to be active in sports. Thus with a lack of interest in sports from the fairer sex, sports fans are predominantly male.

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No. Rather stereotypical a view in current times. Perhaps, more so in earlier times when gendered roles/behaviour were socialised into adults.

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Soccer fans or soccer player fans? Men are always told it's manly to like sports.

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Agree - girls are less aggressive, less tribal?

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No. Soccer fans yes, sports fans no.

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yes...mentality, peer pressure

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Yes. Its probably one of those things that are a result of social conditioning. Women shop, talk. Men paly sports, guzzle beer. But if the marketing folks are to be believed women are fast joining the bandwagon, albeit its more an attraction to football celebrity.

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I think so! Refer to answer to qn 2. Probably also, it's been a qn of social upbringing, that past social stigmas (boys play soccer, girls play with dolls) have been socialised further into the younger generation, thus perpetuating the phenomenon. When you start young, I suppose you develop a passion for the sport, perhaps this is why few girls feel the same way.

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yes...mentality, peer pressure

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no... many females like watching soccer ... some for different and superficial reasons perhaps... but are fans nonetheless...

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Predominantly male, but there are many woman as well. I'd say the ratio is 70-30. Why? because of societal expectations, which are less influential in the younger generation. Also, girls in school are taught basketball, netball - boys are taught football.

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I guess so. I think most sports fans are predominantly male anyway.

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Yes. Mainly because football ultimately still involves some form of contact sport and i believe that males have a slight affinity towards sports that involve some form of and release of aggresion.

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Not very sure, but the soccer is always more male perdominate. So vice vesa.

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