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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That is one beautiful GIF!
THAT is the pink-pantied bull elephant in the living room that no one is talking about!
Sayonara, Title IX!
A co worker yesterday asked me, yesterday, if I was ever curious whether the men in our capacity were making more hourly than we were, speaking in a victim tone. In decades at my job, no. I had never considered it myself.
A little later I questioned her on how we might proceed in the case of a a co worker, a woman, with an anger problem, til then, unchecked by administration, but now addressed by me. She said, well, you know she’s pregnant. Maybe that’s getting to her
I said she can’t have it both ways. You can’t whine about not getting treated the same as men while giving women excuses for unprofessional non dependable performance
Crickets
I loved Ledecky until I heard she is a big Springsteen fan.
Women’s MMA is definitely watchable.
Like good libtards, they want their own version of the unearned, the undeserved, and something for nothing.
Maybe happiness is not the goal. Maybe feminism is part and parcel of the ongoing attack against Western Civilization.
They lack the hitting power of the men and thus it's easier to follow the ball. In terms of the sport's mechanics, they're both the same.
The same thing applied when racquetball was an exhibition sport. You couldn't see the ball when the men played but with the women you could.
Women's beach volleyball is so much better than the male counterpart where the only thing bouncing is the ball.
She sounds like she was trying to draw you into saying something she could use in a complaint. Stand by for a contact from HR.
See, these girls know how to SELL their sport. That WOULD be a reason to watch women’s sports if they weren’t so over feminist and not so hot to look at.
1. Put some more clothes on if you want to be taken seriously. The people doing the filming must film porn in the off season. Men cover their bottoms so the abbreviated attire women wear has nothing to do with their ability to compete.
2. I like men
3. I like men
etc., etc., etc.
See post #13. I rest my case.
Same reason men’s sports do: some people want to do them and watch it done. Maybe not as many, but that’s OK. And some of the coverage has been pretty pathetic, there is a certain crowd of people who just can’t seem to not condescend to women.
“Because people enjoying watching slower, less-skilled versions of basketball, volleyball, running, etc...”
I would pay to see the Brazil Women’s beach volleyball team play.
I watch women’s sports because women are pretty. I love women and I love watching them have fun. They are God’s final and most beautiful creation. They’re awesome simply because they’re women. Nothing else needs to be said.
Precisely. The Olympics should be open to ALL people. Separating the events for the benefit of some is on its face discrimination.
This reminds me of a conversation I had at work a while back:
Black employee asks me: “I heard you live way out in the sticks. Are there any black people out there?”
Me. “I honestly don’t know. Everyone out here has very long driveways and I never see my neighbors.”
;-)
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