Sports Pay Gender gap...
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@stargazer said in Sports Pay Gender gap...:
@no-quarter said in Sports Pay Gender gap...:
Idiotic feminists searching for things to be outraged about, instead of focussing on real issues. The "feminist" movement is beyond a parody these days.
Not sure whether your post is serious or not, but I don't think that's the case at all. It's just the way the stuff article is written (see my previous post).
(I also think that many anti-feminists have the wrong comprehension of feminism, which is essentially about fair (equitable) treatment of women. I'm all for feminism in that sense. But that's another discussion that I won't engage in here.)
I wish you'd come get amongst in the Politics forum, we need more diversity of thought there. I have to be deliberately controversial to generate any discussion, and even then it doesn't last long.
And sadly yes my post was serious. Feminism in the west today is a joke. Focussing on equality of outcome while completely disregarding biological differences between men and women, using it as a tool to push Marxist ideas, there's absolutely no way you can take it seriously.
There's some real issues facing women in the west, like being expected to have a career and kids at the same time (which has nothing to do with sexism, quite the opposite) but there's no scope for having serious discussions about any of that due to the hard-left feminists shreiking SEXISM at every opportunity, poisoning the debate.
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@no-quarter I have a very good feminist friend who runs her own womens advice organisation. She read Ayaan's book 'Infidel' a couple years back which had her questioning a few things. After a year of chats together she joined me at Milo's talk here in Melbourne. She is well and trully through the looking glass now. The current Iran protests show just how vacuous western feminism really is, just hope more women wake up to the madness.
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@no-quarter I think a lot of people confuse equal with identical. I'm all for equality of outcome, with equality defined as in the English Oxford Dictionaries: the state of being equal, especially in status, rights, or opportunities.
I'm quite familiar with non-English language literature about this subject, and there it is much more obvious that sometimes it is necessary to treat people in certain circumstances differently in order to achieve an equal outcome (and that difference in treatment must be proportional to the differences in circumstances and not go further than is required to achieve an equitable and equal outcome). Somehow this seems to be lost in a lot of English language discours.
I think a lot of the discussion is confusing because people (in general) use different definitions, none the least because of the loud, American dominance in the media and people's political agenda's (from left to right, and back).
I don't agree there's anything wrong with feminism today. I'd argue that there is something wrong with a small, but very loud minority of feminists, who've gone completely overboard and extreme, which makes it very hard to hear the true feminists. I don't think they're pushing a Marxist agenda either; that just sounds like a label that conservatives have put on it to discredit them and push their own conservative agenda.
As far as women being expected to have a career and kids at the same time: have you ever asked yourself the question why there's never criticism from anti-feminists on men being expected to have a career and kids at the same time?
In my view, it is about choice - for both mothers and fathers equally - to chose to work or not if they have children, if financial circumstances permit such a choice, and to have equal rights and opportunities in doing so. IMO, biological differences are completely irrelevant in this area, or so they should be (even if women would probably choose to take care of kids over a career more often than men).So, that's a little bit of my opinion on this matter. If you wonder why I never participate in discussions in the political threads, the reason is that IMO many ferners (not all) who take part in those discussions don't know how to debate without being disrespectful, rude and name-calling. I have been reading political threads on the Fern and just don't see it as a forum where I would like to join the discussion. I probably don't like watching debates from NZ Parliament or the UK House of Commons for the same reason. I already have my debates in the real world (as opposed to the digital world); here on the Fern, I rather stick to sports.
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@stargazer all good stargazer
I wonder about the maternal "urge" for mothering rather than a pure choice though
Me and the wife can't have kids and the biological distress that caused seemed a million miles from a choice for her.
Not sure that biological differences are ever irrelevant, but alas the whole discussion has been dominated by people insisting on black and white solutions and understanding.
We're quickly losing the ability to reason
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@Stargazer political discussions often get heated, that's the nature of the beast and I wouldn't take anything personal. The problem with limiting yourself to only "real life" is that the people you spend the most time with share your political views, and you can end up in a bubble. That's been the beauty of the internet for me.
A couple of things: I'm not sure I understand what you mean by equality of outcome. Do you mean 50/50 representation across all industries, for example? Because there's a reason some are female dominated and some are male dominated, and it's nothing to do with sexism.
Gender Studies, which is where most modern feminist ideas come from today, very clearly has a Marxist agenda. I don't even think that's up for debate it's so obvious. Everything they espouse is straight from the Marxist handbook. No doubt there are still genuine feminists around though - look up Christina Hoff Sommers for example, I think you'd like her stuff.
On the challenge women face having a career and kids, that is all about biology. It doesn't affect men so much because:
- women have to spend 9 months pregnant.
- the baby is then completely dependant on he woman for the start of its life, up to 3 years if you believe the "breast is best" crowd.
- women are biologically tuned to want to care for the child they just carried, and so more often then not will take time off to do so.
My wife who is in a demanding profession has struggled to balance this. With women now in the workforce the economy has shifted - where in the past a single income has sufficed, that is no longer the case. This means women are now having less kids, not enough to replace the population which leads to the "aging population" we always hear about and all the problems that come with that.
That is the biggest challenge facing women in the west today IMO. It's not easily solvable, and it's having or going to have a real impact on society moving forward.
All this nonse about gender pay gaps, rape culture etc is distracting from issues that need addressing. If you want to protest those things then head to Iran, they're marching in the streets and rightfully so.
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When this kind of crap appears in the headlines the best response is to ask why the men's netball team don't get equal pay to the women's team. This is obviously because of disproportionate levels of interest and revenue, much larger market etc. It's pretty farking simple.
This whole AB captain vs netballers thing is as ridiculous as complaining that Tiger Woods' caddy earned more than every Super squad combined. Ffs these top salaries for men didn't occur in a vacuum. They came after decades, sometimes a century, of amateurism, part-timers and having to choose between focusing on sport or work. There are still an enormous number of top level athletes in a multitude of sports who barely scrape by. Just because the captain of a men's sports team (in a sport that was amateur until 1995) is earning good money does not mean that females in the same or a completely different sport are entitled to the big bucks as well.
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@rancid-schnitzel well said.
The real damage is that I'd assume every ferner here would want the netballers to earn more but the whole issue gets hijacked with totally lopsided and unrealistic finger pointing at totally different situations.Distilling all issues down to stupid comparisons seems to be the order of the day.
More fool us for trying to have intelligent discussions using our print media as a starting point i guess
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@booboo said in Sports Pay Gender gap...:
- The new women's professional leagues in Aus are most likely funded by the revenue generated by the men's side of the sport. Netball doesn't have a men's league to fund them.
Shouldn't they be funding a men's league at a loss?
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Wages in professional sports is determined by the market. If the sheilas can get the same bodies through the turnstiles for the same ticket prices and the same number of eyeballs watching their games on the telly, then they deserve equal pay. But that’s still a Big If. (And when that happens, it’s time for guys to start crying “sexual discrimination” when they are restricted from competing for those same prizes. Ha-ha!!)
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I reckon semi-pro is the dream middle ground.
Get paid, but don't get bored.
In NZ domestic market I think semi-pro is about the ceiling netball can get to.
The semi-pro ideal though is stuffed by;
- Aussie going fully pro on their own. Will leave nz behind at international level.
- Sky, as alluded to by Stargazer, wanting it to be a multi-night filler. So making it hard for some of them to fit in jobs.
Don't underestimate the attractiveness of semi-pro. Can only really exist in a sport with so few external pull factors. But Aussie netball must be feeling the heat in the explosion of Wonen's pro sports leagues that have mushroomed in Australia the last few years.
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Thought this thread might be better suited. Recalled @Rembrandt post when reading the following article:
@rembrandt said in Religion, Morality and Political Correctness on campus:Transgender woman granted permission to play VFLW.
6'3" 100kgs... what a beast! Yay diversity!
Hannah Mouncey granted permission by AFL to play in VFLW for 2018 season
‘The AFL may prefer I didn’t exist’: Trans player’s epic spray
She's an advocate based on being in the Army which has taught her girls can do anything if you use teamwork. I might note she's never been in an arms corp, so her experience that women can do the job is not based in reality.
Part of me (an admittedly dark part) actually wants to see deluded individuals trying to play collision sports against men. They might learn what we already know thanks to science.
I wonder if she'd still be an advocate after men take women's spots in traditionally female sports...
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That's gonna be a pretty short debate. Amazing how detached people can get from reality.
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@antipodean I couldn't even get to the end of that article, absolutely infuriating. These people are in charge, seriously things are fucked.
also as an aside I'd be curious as to the numbers watching the AFLW this year..got a feeling there might just be a dramatic drop-off excluding games where we get to see Terry the transgender knock 7 shades of shit outta actual women..for diversities sake.
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Kezie Apps vs. Jason Taumalolo? Mad senator wants to see mixed gender sport