Online commentary from men insisting that women should not advocate for higher salaries because their leagues are allegedly less profitable or entertaining exemplifies this obstruction.
Allegedly. The leagues might be less profitable, or more, or less revenue generating or more, but those are facts to be established, no? In fact, facts that are establised – they are less.
But then this whole piece is a confection of idiocies. Perfectly sensible looking bird is a wimmins basketball coach. How appalling that folk talk about her as perfectly sensible looking. Disgusting eh?
This is also rather funny:
Rooks addressed this dynamic on a recent podcast with Lou Williams and Spank Horton. She was forced to assert that, despite the sexualized attention she receives, her looks have not influenced her work – a statement prompted by repeated suggestions that she secures the “best interviews” with NBA players because of her “pretty privilege”.
Umm
or a journalist like Taylor Rooks being memefied as if her rapport with NBA players exists solely because they find her attractive,
The players are all lesbian munters who melt at the thought of talking to an attractive woman. Well, it’s an idea, I guess.
What sort of privilege gets this halfwit her assignments? It certainly isn’t her writing style.
Women are more than welcome to campaign for higher salaries, but unless a lot more people start watching their sport, there’ll be no money to pay them.
Anyway, Bill Burr says it best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I745Ajeq_B8
BTW both Rooks and the coach are rather fetching, in very different ways.
There is if they take it from the men.
Not blaming the female players for this, but that is what a lot of the feminist commentators advocate.
An excellent example of the left seeing the world as they would like it to be and not like it is
All leftism is fantasy. Reality is ‘right-wing’.
Point of order, NBA players are rarely lesbians. WNBA usually are.
There’s a recent cautionary tale on this very topic. Miles Jacobsen had resisted putting female leagues, based on the fact that he did not see demand, in Football Manager for a while. Then they tried a new tactic of getting the England ladies to schmooze him….”be the change you want to see!”. He relented and agreed to do it. FM25 never happened. Delayed, then cancelled.
P.s.many other reasons for this glorious fuck up. change of engine being a prime one. But there’s no doubt they took their eye off the ball trying to appease the activists. It’s still not entirely proven that the addition has increased sales. They had to do a lot on the licensing front and it’s a good guess that this is another subsidy smuggling exercise.
I won’t bother pirating that one then
Ha apparently one of the things they had to do is “rate” 36,000 female players. —-=–Another dream job unlocked for teen boys to take to their school careers advisors.
You could always try just fucking ignoring it, love. Or invent your own sports which men are shit at.
(In case anyone was wondering, ‘misogynoir’ is ‘where racism and sexism meet’.)
Women’s leagues are less profitable and less entertaining.
They’re less profitable because they’re less entertaining.
There are things that women are better at than men, but sport is not one of them.
People pay to watch sport to see people at the absolute top of the relevant game, and that does not include women, old men, fat men, unskilled men, disabled men, or very young men (and of that list, within reasonable parameters, the women are the worst by a distance).
In rugby, which is my main sporting interest, the RFU has recently dictated that all Premiership (sorry, ‘PREM’) teams MUST field a women’s side.
If they don’t do so they will face ‘fines for non-compliance’.
English club rugby is broke – not a single club is in profit. Three of them have folded in the last few seasons.
Taking more money out of the bit that people pay to watch in order to pay for the bits that people don’t watch is fucking insane, but they’re going along with it – in fact, they’re enforcing it – because of diversity targets, woke bollocks, and the bonuses paid to Bill Sweeney which are in part dictated by the ‘success’ of the women’s game.
Leicester Tigers are by far the best supported side, and they are currently nearly £18 million in debt.
At the same time, they have ‘invested’ £750,000 into a women’s side that attracts a few hundred spectators – mostly the players’ family and girlfriends and wannabe girlfriends – though they won’t say how many, refusing to publish attendance figures.
In the 2023/324 season this produce ‘revenue’ of £100,000, though no figure for profit is given, I suspect because there was none.
Rugby is like everything else – stupid, weak men bowing needlessly to vapid, noisy ‘pressure’ on ‘issues’, inventing bullshit excuses, and stealing silverware from the Titanic dining room.
In case anyone was wondering, ‘misogynoir’ is ‘where racism and sexism meet’.
You know, I’m something of a misogynoir myself
“People pay to watch sport to see people at the absolute top of the relevant game, and that does not include women, old men, fat men, unskilled men, disabled men, or very young men (and of that list, within reasonable parameters, the women are the worst by a distance).”
It’s debatable to call it sport, but there is one exception which is figure skating. Female figure skaters are the stars, the draws, the ones that get the big “brand partnership” deals. But it’s ballet on ice, and women like ballet. It’s grace rather than speed or strength.
“Rugby is like everything else – stupid, weak men bowing needlessly to vapid, noisy ‘pressure’ on ‘issues’, inventing bullshit excuses, and stealing silverware from the Titanic dining room.”
I suspect it’s all about the Principal-Agent problem. Do you want to get into the right dinner parties? Do you want your wife or daughter pestering you about things? You don’t own the club/film studio, so what’s the effect on you as the bloke in charge to throw a million quid at something. Cook up a story or some numbers to convince the people above you.
Look at “The Force is Female”. What the fuck. How does a $170bn corporation with a 100 year history in film entertainment get that so badly wrong? Anyone that goes to movies knows that little girls love Princess stuff and little boys love fighting stuff. OK, it’s not 100%, but the audience the other way around is tiny.
It’s debatable to call it sport, but there is one exception which is figure skating. Female figure skaters are the stars, the draws
Horse shit. I watch it for the Alan Cumming impersonators:
https://www.msn.com/fr-fr/divertissement/tv/chute-et-3e-place-pour-laurence-fournier-beaudry-et-guillaume-cizeron-apr%C3%A8s-la-danse-rythmique-au-grand-prix-de-france/ar-AA1OIGsn
Alan Cumming
Nominative determinism.
“. . . the RFU has recently dictated that all Premiership (sorry, ‘PREM’) teams MUST field a women’s side.”
If I were the majority shareholder/owner of one of these clubs I think I would rather pack it in than throw cash at a program that was guaranteed to lose me even more money.
Problem is there are two kinds of owners.
The first lot are those so rich it doesn’t matter eg Steve Lansdown at Bristol, Dyson and Craig at Bath, Red Bull now at Newcastle, Simon Orange at Sale.
The second lot are wealthyish but not wealthy enough to enjoy pissing £750k up the wall to let fat lasses play bad rugby in their empty stadiums.
eg Martin St Quinton at Gloucester has a net worth of around £20 million according to reports – he’s not on his uppers but he can’t blow money like that. The club’s accounts show losses on losses, and they’re looking for funding, not inventive new ways to lose money.
Northampton are a PLC making losses every year, basically the only shareholders are sentimental eg fans and former players.
The aforementioned Leicester are for sale and have been so for ages, but there’s no buyer.
Same could be said for numerous other clubs.
This may change now that promotion and relegation has officially ended, and is probably why it ended, but that brings other problems such as the total lack of meaningful games for half of the teams between now and the end of the season.
Or invent your own sports which men are shit at.
They did. It’s called Competitive Passive Aggression.
There are things that women are better at than men, but sport is not one of them.
There are no men who will glue my eyes to the screen as Emma Raducanu and Keely Hodgkinson can. Pervy, me? No. I just like looking at beautiful, graceful young women.
I often say this but I don’t know any passive aggressive women – my mother was straightforwardly aggressive, and the rest (rellies and friends) are all just lovely. Maybe it’s me!
Totally with you on the stuff they’re better at including looking good. (I’ve never had a blow job off a bloke, but I doubt that’s as good either.)
Raducanu and Hodgkinson, though? I meant they’re solid 6/10s, but there are loads of 10/10 women out there if all you want to do it look at them.
Sure, but we’re talking about athletes here. I’d include Johnson-Thompson. Most are munters. Among civilian women, of course you’re right.
Women are by nature very agreeable – generally. Women can be actively aggressive, particularly in defence of their offspring; but most women are passively aggressive…
So…disguised insults like, “You’re so brave to wear that outfit”, and “You must have been very attractive in your youth”…Or stating “everything is fine” while using a cold tone/sighing heavily/slamming doors…. Or comments like, “It must be nice to have so much free time,” to imply you are being lazy or neglecting responsibilities…
Have you really not noticed such passive aggression in women?
No. I find women love me. Go figure.
“There are no men who will glue my eyes to the screen as Emma Raducanu and Keely Hodgkinson can. Pervy, me? No. I just like looking at beautiful, graceful young women.”
But how much will you pay to get them?
I enjoyed the dual talents of Sydney Sweeney in Anyone But You (and it’s a not bad romcom) but it was on streaming. I wasn’t going to pay £5 for a fit bird in a bikini. There’s lots of competition for fit birds in bikinis.
How much would I pay? Nowt. Zilch. NFI (Not Fucking Interested). But I wouldn’t pay for any sport, so for me it’s probably the wrong question.
“They did. It’s called Competitive Passive Aggression.”
A sport televised as the ‘Real Housewives’ franchise.
All 3 of those gold medallers in Poland fit in that category.
‘misogynoir’
I assumed it was some newfangled Japanese cookery
There are currently something like 3-4 million women freely disporting themselves for objectification on OnlyFans, to give but one example.
True, it would be a waste of time for the average Guardian reader (and writer) to set up there, but don’t tar everyone with the same brush.
More broadly, I look forward to a piece bemoaning the blatant sexism involved in women not really wanting to look at naked men and rub one out to the degree that men want to look at naked women and rub one out, and demanding that men get equal wank representation on the platform by forcing the ladies to get down to it whether they like it or not.
There are currently something like 3-4 million women freely disporting themselves for objectification on OnlyFans, to give but one example.
And I betcha that’s more than are involved in organised professional sport worldwide.
Plus fansly, and heaven only knows how many other such sites.
Reminds me of a data point from Cuba: it was said that about one in every three women there are on the game.
But that is where a century or so of progressivism and socialism gets us: going backwards to Gin Lane and whores on the Haymarket.
Grim to say, but a woman will never starve – even in the direst of circumstances – if she’s got pussy to sell…
I saw some of the indoor athletics recently. The female competitors were heavily made up with manicured nails and mostly wore very brief shorts that exposed most of their behinds. Don’t you dare go objectifying them though. It was the main reason that I was watching.
So it’s just like the average gym experience?
NBA=men, WNBA=women.
But the thing is, and this is something in all walks of life, men and women, being more physically attractive gets you places. And it’s not just the opposite sex. And even with the opposite sex, it’s not clear how hard they are thinking in terms of slamming gonads so much as just liking someone hot around.
I worked with a handsome project manager once. Most of his success is that he could ask people to go above and beyond the norm and they would. “it would be really helpful if you could get us that server configured by Friday” and they would do it. Where to other people, they’d say “sorry, lead time is 10 days”.
I have a theory about politicians with this, that peak attractiveness came in the TV era. Blair, Clinton, Cameron, Obama. If your input is visual, hotter people work better. The time before that was more about print or radio. The time after, social media was more about text.
being more physically attractive gets you places
This is how I got hired in the first place.
Where to other people, they’d say “sorry, lead time is 10 days”.
I just throw my toys out like Trump and they decide it’s better to not piss me off. Works every time, especially on the Indians – they seem to genuinely love being ordered about.
I have a theory about politicians with this, that peak attractiveness came in the TV era. Blair, Clinton, Cameron, Obama.
Blair is an ugly grinning freak. Especially now, he looks like the host of Tales from the Crypt.
I always suspected Blair was a whoopsie, because of his effeminate, simpering nature and – despite him being a successful, wealthy man – his wife is an absolute dog. Why couldn’t he find an attractive one, like Ffion?
What do beards do for company? Is it just supposed that they’ll be noble and sit it out like maiden aunts, or are they expected to be discreet? Or what?
Idk. Anthony Perkins married an attractive model when he was trying to will himself straight (he was, tbf, a beautiful man) and they had two children.
Maybe it helped that her name was Barry?
Also in Perkins’ case, women always wanted to mother him. He had a that shy, boyish, self deprecating thing going on well into his 40s. Some women can’t resist that.
Remind me what happened to his mother in that thinly disguised movie of his life.
Lol. What a great film Psycho is, I’ll have to watch it again. Perkins is mesmerising and Hitchcock’s directing was never more masterful. Like Anthony Hopkins in Silence of the Lambs, it was one of those once in a generation performances where the right actor, character and script meet to create 24 carat gold lightning in a bottle.
Bring back black and white.
The funny thing is that the choice of black and white was simply about cost. The studio didn’t want to make it so Hitchcock paid for it himself and B&W was a lot cheaper at the time. But I think it works better than it would have done in colour.
Hollywood is probably about to remake Psycho in iMax 3D with full CGI. It will be rubbish.
Blair got an earner. Cheri made the dosh that allowed him to have a political career. Same with Rishi marrying the daughter of the big consultancy that supplies Ashoks. Cameron might be the same. They’re himbos.
It’s like the reverse of Salma Hayek marrying that French billionaire Gene Hackman lookalike.
“What was it that first attracted you to the millionaire Paul Daniels?”
https://uk.legal.narkive.com/a5r12Z9V/cottaging-anthony-charles-lynton-blair-tony-blair-former-pm-of-the-uk
Suspected?!???
Next thing he’ll be looking for badgers on Clapham Common.
Someone once asked me why I spell his name Toni Blair.
Is the joke really so obscure?
Women are inferior at most sports. E.g., PGA golfers hit their drives 50 yards further than LPGA. The US women’s soccer team played a game against a high school junior varsity boys team – 15 year olds – and lost.
Period.
So why do men watch female sports? Because of sexual interest in women. Their basketball is inferior to men’s basketball.
So along come dumb fuck feminazis like Tiana Randall pretending that women are the equal of men in sports, and that it is horrid that people notice they are females of the species. She is playing with fire. People watch BECAUSE they are women. Insistence that they not notice they are women challenges the core of the genre. It is an existential threat to women’s sports.
Sometimes lower strength can be an advantage for the spectators.
There’s an argument that women’s tennis is now more watchable as a sport (not just for the short skirts) than the men’s, because it’s still about rallies rather than just who can serve the fastest.
Not sure about golf, because I really cannot understand how that is a spectator sport.
Is your wife looking over your shoulder while you type?
My wife is the tennis fan and only watches the men’s game. She tells me that the women’s game is also about fast serves, just a bit slower than the men.
Also, “the Lionesses” are dogs and I’m tired of pretending they’re not.
Fit bird you’d like to shag (and women envy) has high social status because of it. Sorry, fat ugly tattooed Guardian slags: you’ll always be betas.
The music of the spheres.
To paraphrase Gaspode The Wonder Dog: percentage-of-the-gate.
Arizona State lost to Virginia in a preliminary round of the NCAA tournament, the First Four. A recent creation by the NCAA. IOW, Arizona State and the fabulous Molly only made the tournament because of a newly created (losers) category.
AS schedule:
https://www.espn.com/womens-college-basketball/team/schedule/_/id/9
A conspicuously weak schedule. They played only 4 ranked teams, and lost ALL.
A key to team success is the player personnel. Being Sweet Mollie’s first year, she had double-ought zero involvement with recruiting the players. She inherited them.
Gamecock is familiar with NCAA women’s basketball. My South Caroline Gamecock’s are a perennial force, having won the national championship in 2022 and 2024. Slightly off this year, but we should make the FINAL Four.
My point is, Randall is trying to create a story out of nothing. Mollie Miller is an okay coach. She is not a great coach. Her coaching warrants no story. I think Randall picked Miller for the story BECAUSE she is attractive. How’s that for irony?
It has always been a mystery to me why the hoop in women’s basketball is not lowered 4-6 inches to reflect the obvious physical differences – in height at least.
On the one hand they want to be considered as a separate sport independent from the men, on the other they refuse to acknowledge the physical and biological truth of their difference. And so the “can’t dunk” trope perpetuates itself.
My Lady Gamecocks have two who have dunked in games, Ashlyn Watkins and Alicia Tournebize.
https://youtube.com/shorts/0GvSxy5BFlY?si=pdJar5jgciuEdA5P
The face of the WNBA – “rockin’ the whole city”.
Gamecock figures the blonde cherrybomb reporterette, Holly Rowe, must be the daughter of the network owner.
As my Scottish friends would say “Nae stranger tae a fish supper”.
I often enjoy a long – and low calorie – ‘fish supper’. And she does, too.
BTW, WNBA is a subsidiary of the NBA, costing them $400 million a year.
And it is a black womens club. White players are publicly harassed by black players.
So WNBA is not competing for white viewers, only black, who comprise 13% of the population. It’s a stupid business plan. It’s a hobby, not a business.
Lots of women have a “business” that is really a hobby, that they get their man to pay for. Little High Street clothes shops; interior decoration shops; chichi places to eat cake, etc.
I recall one opposite the favourite pub in Bath. Dried flower shop. Deffo totty ageing into mother of second family. Driving a big Range Rover. We looked at it, looked at each other and bet on a year. She’d be able to get hubby to pay for it for that long.
We were wrong. 14 months. Better totty than we’d thought.
Yup. A cafe down the road to us, with ever-changing opening times. They are about to move into what they fondly think is a more upmarket venue up the county a bit. I’m wondering how that will work out for them? They’ll definitely have to be more disciplined.
…and yet not a peep about a recent fawning interview of Gavin Newsome that started with five or six minutes of gushing about how prfoundly handsome he is, and whether that’s a distraction in his political career. If not for double standards, they’d have no standards at all, would they?
Newsom isn’t handsome tho. He has conventionally attractive features, but can’t even look normal in still photos. He looks like American Psycho, the inhabiting demons operating him are unable to make him smile without it looking like he wants to bite a child’s face off.
Not handsome. Handsy. He is being mocked relentlessly for his hand jive.
That may not make the news anywhere, but it is the death of his political career.
Search youtube for gavin newsom hand jive. It is unsettling.
Search youtube for gavin newsom hand jive
Never.
But lefties.
There’s no truth in them, only wickedness and lies.
Women might have the edge in beach handball (assuming you aren’t gay)