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Those gals playing beach volleyball should make more than men. Who wants to see men play beach volleyball?
 
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Those gals playing beach volleyball should make more than men. Who wants to see men play beach volleyball?


Agreed!
 
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Because MOST men consider women as second class citizens and as such anything they do as second class and won't pay to see it.
 
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Because MOST men consider women as second class citizens and as such anything they do as second class


This is a ridiculous statement, MOST men...
 
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Rousey has it right, and it is simple, first semester microeconomics. There is less demand for women's sports. So it pays less.

Of course a lot of athletes didn't take first semester microeconomics, so . . .

Maybe it isn't "fair" (in some mushy kum-by-yah kind of way) that people prefer to watch men's sports for the most part, but that is the way it is.




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Because MOST men consider women as second class citizens and as such anything they do as second class and won't pay to see it.


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Because MOST men consider women as second class citizens and as such anything they do as second class and won't pay to see it.


This is ignorant AF.





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I doubt it’s a class thing. Women’s sports are comparatively slower and less dynamic than men’s sports. Unless there’s an element that men can’t provide that women can, like beach volleyball, men’s sports will always sell more tickets and drive more revenue. It distills to money. Men’s sports produce more money so the athletes get more of it. So the bumper sticker should not read: equal pay for equal work. It should read: equal pay for equal production.



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I watched Billie Jean King play Bobby Riggs and I flat guarantee you I would've smoked her if I played her. At the time they played, she was the #1 Female Tennis player in the U.S.

...and they only played 3-sets. If, the gals played a full Men's game of 5-sets, these 'battle of the sex's' arguments would be over.

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Because MOST men consider women as second class citizens and as such anything they do as second class and won't pay to see it.

Please elaborate?
 
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Because MOST men consider women as second class citizens and as such anything they do as second class and won't pay to see it.


Maybe it is a bad joke or an attempt at sarcasm?

If it isn't, well . . .




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Lingerie Bowl. I watch. If it was men in their underwear, I wouldn't.

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Because MOST men consider women as second class citizens and as such anything they do as second class and won't pay to see it.
Hmmmm, low post count and a very "unusual" comment has me really wondering what's going on here.


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Those gals playing beach volleyball should make more than men. Who wants to see men play beach volleyball?


I bet Jeff Foxworthy could work that into one of his hilarious stand-up schticks.


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And of course, since they have to pay women more money now, where's it going to come from?

The men's sports probably. Charge more for tickets, charge more for advertising, etc.

Fortunately, I don't do sports so I won't be funding this idiocy.
 
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Male vs Female is sports? Idiotic comparison. Guys win.

Ask me about how much a wonderful mother and secondarily a wife wins. My wife wins every freaking time.
 
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