It's Like Comparing Jordan to Swoops

Have you ever seen a WNBA game? To be honest neither have I, at least not a whole one. Why is it that women's sports have a lower fan base than men's? Is it because we still are stuck in that "Suzy Homemaker" image and not supposed to be rough and competitive? For example, more people can identify Michael Jordan than Sheryl Swoops. In my opinion, here are just a few of the problems I find in not only the WNBA, but women's sports in general.

It's just sad to see the figures of fan attendance from the NBA to the WNBA; these women are strong individuals on and off the court, they work just as hard as the men do in the NBA and no one gives them any credit!
Although there are the few and far between fans that DO love the sport of women's basketball and talk about it daily. They rant back and forth about draft picks, who's going to be good this season and who should just throw in the towel, etc...
When women participate in professional sports or sports in general some are ridiculed by name calling such as lesbian, manly, etc..the list could go on forever really; but when a woman athlete actually does come out, for example Sheryl Swoops, there is a media frenzy and gives all those out there more justification that women who play professional sports are manly or lesbian.
Athletes from other sports just as well have "come out", although (rarely) when men come out it is a HUGE ordeal and seen as the most unexpected event to ever occur, but do you notice when a woman does in a professional sport most people see it as "it was only a matter of time" attitude?
Even though I do rant about inequality in women's sports, the only one's that can really change everyone's views about it is us, sadly. We have to not only train and compete, but hold up our feminine image that society has placed on us, will it ever end?