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Isn't that sexist?

A little. It's also suggesting that certain things are universal. Enjoying melodramatic but ultimately predictable storylines being one of them.

OK. I can see it with something like wrestling.

Lucha libre is the Spanish soap opera of sport. And boxing is a Dynasty catfight. Two people fighting over a sparkly belt and a purse.

But look at football. Heroes, villains, fidelity issues every year. They even replace people midseason and expect fans to go with it.

I'd say prime time dramas are soap operas for men.

They're probably made by men. They're not watched by them.

Oh, Allison.
You don't know men at all.

I know you're about to lose a bargaining chip if I suggest watching something glossy with a great costume department mid evening.

No, they're gladiatorial events.

Soap operas for Romans.

Gladiatorial? Really?

Sports stadiums are the new colosseum. Only instead of fighting for their lives, they fight for trophies and public good will.

I don't know, I find it difficult to equate overpaid baseball players with ancient slaves. And how impressed do you think the Emperor would have been with a man who could hit a ball a really long way into a little hole?