The REAL Woman's wrestling champion of the world....Andy Kaufman!
Posted on 08/18/2016 12:32:54 PM PDT by Kaslin
My, my, there those feminists go, complaining again. This time the whining concerns supposedly “sexist” Olympics coverage. Their problem?
Many journalists are, we’re told, using different language when talking about female athletes than when speaking of male ones. Oh, the humanity!
There’s the guy who credited a female swimmer’s husband/coach for her success, the talk about a six-foot-three-inch South Korean woman volley ball player’s difficulty finding a boyfriend, and a reporter who called an equestrian rider “blondie.” Putting aside the female teacher who once called me blondie when I was 13, let’s have a reality check. Do you really think sports commentators don’t look for storylines, often infused with frivolity, relating to male athletes? And insofar as the treatment is different, so what? As even über-liberal Bill Maher once observed (I’m paraphrasing), “We have two standards because there are two sexes.” But speaking of standards and differences, let’s get to a quintessential feminist complaint in a recent (very) Lost Angeles Times piece about “sexist Olympics coverage.”
Citing a Cambridge University Press study, writer Julie Makinen tells us, “The research, which analyzed multibillion-word databases of written and spoken English language, found that in general, men are referenced twice as often as women, but when the topic is sports, the ratio is about 3 to 1.” Male athletes earn more money as well, which also irks the feminists.
Of course, this is much like complaining about how heavyweight boxers get more press than lightweights or, speaking of lightweights, like kvetching about Barack Obama getting more exposure than a state legislator from Lakeview. Has Makinen ever heard of “market forces”?
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You have drilled down to the very core and extracted the basic truth about sports.
Excellent observation!
IIRC, the Iroquois invented Lacrosse as a substitute for clan warfare.
Let me see if I can find a reference.
I quit watching women’s tennis when they started screaming. I’m not sure who got that started, but it takes away the reason why I watch women’s tennis.
If a woman is classy and beautiful the way God made her, sans tattoos and other lowbrow additions, I will contentedly watch her do the crossword puzzle.
http://www.e-lacrosse.com/laxhist3.htm
“It was played to amuse the Creator, to train young men for war, and to settle disputes between tribes. The game was played by tribes in all parts of the United States and Canada; “
“The game was especially violent when used as an alternative to war to settle intertribal disputes. One example was a game between the Creek and Choctaw tribes in 1790. This game, which was to determine which tribe had the rights to a beaver pond, broke out into a violent battle after the Creeks were declared the winners of the game. Because of the massive attack and the savage play, lacrosse truly was the little brother of war. “
That cost is for society to once again put pressure on the philandering male to support his wife and children.
To be a father, protector and provider so that the mother can be the nurturer and sustainer of the home.
But randy males and liberated females want nothing to do with "your tired old morality". Commitment and Fidelity are terms to be avoided at all costs.
So we end up with feral children, STDs and lonely old people. Multiple "hookups" never provide the joy & satisfaction of a loving, committed marriage, so people tried the LBGQRSTXYZ route which is a dead end - figuratively, for society and often literally.
“So we end up with feral children, STDs and lonely old people”-—
I’m alone and old,but far from lonely.
My building has a good amount of older people that are alone——but far from lonely.
Life is very good for us.
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I see we have the same taste in weeemen..
Try this slideshow
http://dailycaller.com/2016/07/13/this-gorgeous-olympian-loves-to-show-off-lots-of-skin-slideshow/sports-illustrated-swimsuit-14-2/
Oar...Howz bout this one....
http://dailycaller.com/2016/07/16/this-jaw-dropping-model-is-all-the-motivation-you-need-for-the-olympics-slideshow/screen-shot-2016-07-13-at-3-25-01-pm/
+1!
I suggest that they don’t excuse disruptive behavior at work with pregnancy and if they do to not complain about getting paid lower wage
Much thanks! I have an appreciation for healthy, fit women.
I’ve long considered that “beauty” is biological shorthand for “healthy, physically fit woman in her prime child-bearing years”
Both your examples satisfy the criteria.
Maybe if women competed in all sports while wearing diaphanous lace underwear ... but no, the audience would just say they’re too muscular and their breasts aren’t big enough.
Women who pursue athletic achievement ... any achievement, really ... have to find fulfilment in their own accomplishment of goals. They will rarely be what men want.
Why do you have a problem with Title IX and scholarships to women?
since I have neither mentioned women nor Title IX in my posts to you, you have framed your question improperly, but my ‘problem’, as you put it, is that a phony articulation of equality has been enforced by governmental diktat in order to effect a situation that does not exist; namely, that females are as interested as males in pursuing sports at any level...they are not, as is obvious to anyone with eyes to see, thus the delusion of even distriution of opportunity is anything but, as the more interested men’s oportunities have to be thwarted in order to acheive the illusory nirvana you seem to think exists...
it would be the same thing if the govenment dictated that men must be given equal opportunity to raise small children in the home; by and large, the male population wishing to do that is snaller than the female, but in order to provide equal access to it, numbers of more interested women must then be precluded from child raising, in order to create the illusion of sexual equality in child rearing, without regard to the quality of such care being given...
Like John Wooden, we prefer it to men's college basketball. Watching the USA Women play has been great! And brings back memories of how Diana Taurasi was often referred to as the female Larry Bird. She still is!
You mean the late Pat Summit, who passed away June 28 off this year. My husband used to work on her father’s tractor and farm equipment years ago.
The REAL Woman's wrestling champion of the world....Andy Kaufman!
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