--- title: Men's Health Pulls Post on Explaining Sports to Women After Backlash description: Critics take to Twitter with some witty responses to the sexist article canonical: https://time.com/3478190/mens-health-women-sports/ author: Eliana Dockterman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-10-07T15:08:04.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:42:49.018Z og:title: Men's Health Pulls Post on Explaining Sports to Women After Backlash og:description: Critics take to Twitter with some witty responses to the sexist article og:url: https://time.com/3478190/mens-health-women-sports/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt829ae6486200a904/69875f24428a9e26c1cc45d6/mens-helath-article-taking-sports-with-a-woman.png?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: mens helath article taking sports with a woman og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Men's Health Pulls Post on Explaining Sports to Women After Backlash twitter:description: Critics take to Twitter with some witty responses to the sexist article twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt829ae6486200a904/69875f24428a9e26c1cc45d6/mens-helath-article-taking-sports-with-a-woman.png?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Men's Health Pulls Guide on Explaining Sports to Women After Backlash  by [Eliana Dockterman](https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Correspondent Oct 7, 2014 3:08 PM UTC  MensHealth.com  by [Eliana Dockterman](https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Correspondent Oct 7, 2014 3:08 PM UTC _Men’s Health_ published an article Monday that aimed to mansplain how to mansplain sports to your woman . . . because there are no female sports fans, right? In a tweet that’s since been deleted, _Men’s Health_ wrote: “She sees the game differently than you. Here’s how, and what to do about it.”  Screenshot of Tweet Men's Health The ill-conceived article began with: “Not all women share your passion for sports, in case you hadn’t noticed. The reason? They need story lines.” It gets worse: “‘Most women don’t care about stats,’ says Andrei Markovits, Ph.D., coauthor of _Sportista: Female Fandom in the United States._ So while you’re enthusing about Dominic Moore’s scoring record, she’d rather hear about how he supported his wife’s battle with cancer—and even took a season off from the NHL at the height of his career.” Luckily, a lot of smart people on Twitter (some of whom are women, some of whom aren’t) responded swiftly and wittily: > [](https://twitter.com/atotalmonet/status/519271302046449664) > [](https://twitter.com/nprmonkeysee/status/519286883340521472) > [](https://twitter.com/nprmonkeysee/status/519289839188209665) > [](https://twitter.com/jbarro/status/519288111353049090) > [](https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/519301240132751360) > [](https://twitter.com/LPetruny/status/519305722551885824) > [](https://twitter.com/KenTremendous/status/519356438355800064) > [](https://twitter.com/megreenwell/status/519270641418403841) > [](https://twitter.com/MarlonHAAANdo/status/519264254239981569) > [](https://twitter.com/%5FCooper/status/519271323366092801) > [](https://twitter.com/smclaughlin9/status/519272427063627777) > [](https://twitter.com/sportsyelling/status/519281753371193344) > [](https://twitter.com/steakNstiffarms/status/519279579778002945) Men’s Health pulled the article from the site and apologized for their article on Monday night: > [](https://twitter.com/MensHealthMag/status/519328863734607872) > [](https://twitter.com/MensHealthMag/status/519330747463655424) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3478190/mens-health-women-sports/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3478190/mens-health-women-sports/"},"headline":"Men's Health Pulls Guide on Explaining Sports to Women After Backlash","datePublished":"2014-10-07T15:08:04.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:42:49.018Z","description":"Critics take to Twitter with some witty responses to the sexist article","url":"https://time.com/3478190/mens-health-women-sports/","keywords":["Living","Sports topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt829ae6486200a904/69875f24428a9e26c1cc45d6/mens-helath-article-taking-sports-with-a-woman.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliana Dockterman","jobTitle":"Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt829ae6486200a904/69875f24428a9e26c1cc45d6/mens-helath-article-taking-sports-with-a-woman.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"mens helath article taking sports with a woman","caption":"","creditText":"MensHealth.com","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3478190/mens-health-women-sports/","name":"Men's Health Pulls Guide on Explaining Sports to Women After Backlash"}}]}] ```