To: AGreatPer
Annika dissed the other women on the ladies tour big time. Complained that they don't offer her enough of a challenge. I thought the golfer played against the course not the other golfers. This is a great publicity stunt and the media loves every minute of it. Personally, I don't care!
I'm all worn out redialing for Clay!!!!
949 posted on
05/22/2003 12:28:34 PM PDT by
OldFriend
(without the brave, there would be no land of the free)
To: OldFriend
Basically, this whole thing is a stunt. The truth is, in most sports there are a few top tier females who could perform at a decent level against the males. Not a winning level, but a decent level. You can take the very best females in most sports, put them in against the males, and the very upper tier of females will perform at what most would call a passable level. They might outperform some of the lower tier males. They might even outperform a few higher level males who are having an off day. But they would never be a championship threat, and their presence would merely underscore the fact that the very best women in most sports are only about as good as a lower tier male, or on occasion an upper tier male who is in a slump.
Just see what would happen if Tiger Woods demanded the right to play in the LPGA. There would be outrage and hysteria from the feminists, who would call him a bully. He'd be universally derided as a coward for "picking on the girls" instead of playing against his fellow males. If he played in an LPGA tourney and won, which he almost certainly would, it would be derided as a cheap win and he'd be treated as a thief who unfairly "stole" the ladies' winning purse money.
Men are simply stronger than women. That's why we have different leagues for them. Men are expected to respect the women's leagues, but it's considered "cute" and even "progressive" when the women try to invade the men's tourneys. It's the same deal as when men's colleges like VMI are forced to sexually integrate, while women's colleges are sacred turf where women retain the right to exclude men.
I have nothing against women's sports. It's great if women have their own golf leagues, or basketball leagues, or whatever. But it's silly to glorify a top tier female athlete for performing at a barely adequate level when she invades the male leagues.
To: OldFriend
Got her cumupippins today. I predicdicted this on a previous thread.
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