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li10 ,

tbf, Caitlin Clark is the only WNBA player that’s profitable, and she’s kinda limited salary wise by the fact that the women’s league in general is not profitable and heavily subsidised by the NBA.

People will bitch about how the men’s league gets paid so much in comparison, then proceed to not watch the women’s league…

If you want it to make money YOU need to support it 🫵

Delphia ,

This has always been my stance, Women make up approximately 50% of the population and the WNBA generates 2% of the revenue that the NBA does…

My wife and her friends go to some restaraunt once a month and they buy brand name workout clothes. Go to a game, buy a jersey, take your daughter and make it a thing.

todd_bonzalez ,
@todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee avatar

So basically, “gender pay-gaps are fine, because the value of a woman is decided by the free market.”? Fuck that capitalist drivel…

Tear down the entire sexist gender-segregated professional sports industry for illegal/unconstitutional gender discrimination and require professional for-profit sports be co-ed like every other industry in this country is mandated to be.

The fact that the NBA doesn’t admit women should be grounds for dissolving the NBA as an illegal organization. The fact that the NBA and WNBA operate in-tandem while maintaining such an egregious gender pay-gap is proof of a conspiracy to discriminate against women.

Fuck the centuries of sexist tradition around sports. Just because it’s the way things have been, doesn’t mean it’s the way it ought to be. I’m sick and tired of the sexism and sexist apologia. If you think women deserve less, I don’t care what your excuse is, especially if your excuse is “the free market”. smh…

li10 ,

If people don’t watch, then there’s fundamentally no money to be given to the players. If you want money to be given to the player, you need to watch.

That’s how it works for women’s sports, and that’s how it works for men’s sports as well.

Pay for all athletes is dictated by the viewership they bring in, not their performance. WNBA players actually make disproportionately more relative to viewership.

You honestly talk like someone who’s never watched a sport in their life.

lemming741 , (edited )

Men’s minor leagues all pay shit salary too and for the same reasons. Teams and leagues fold all the time.

Hockey, football, baseball, soccer- unless you’re at the top you make about as much as you would at Costco.

agamemnonymous ,
@agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works avatar

The fact that the NBA doesn’t admit women should be grounds for dissolving the NBA as an illegal organization

The NBA, like most people sports leagues, had no rule preventing women from trying out. They’re already co-ed. The NBA doesn’t admit women because they don’t beat men in try-outs.

testfactor ,

The NBA allows women to try out though? It doesn’t ban women from competing at all.

todd_bonzalez ,
@todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee avatar

They built a gender segregated system where all of the marketing and airtime goes to the men’s side. It’s an industry where women get less than 1% of the pay that the men did for the same job.

This system is so deeply ingrained, it is a fundamental part of our higher education system, where it benefits men 100x more than women.

But it’s my fault for not watching?

The corporate overlords thank you for redirecting the blame away from them.

Somethingcheezie ,

Are you suggesting they make a coed league where only the best get to play. How many female players will make the league.

EatATaco ,

NBA is coed. There is nothing in the rulebook banning women from the league.

StaticFalconar ,

The WNBA is a marketing line item for the NBA. If the NBA didnt give the WNBA their hand out, the WNBA wouldn’t exist.

EatATaco ,

There is no rule stopping women from joining the NBA. It’s just that no woman currently is able to compete at the highest level when men are included; the whole point of the WNBA is that, without it, there are no professional women in the sport.

In other words, it’s not the same job: one is an NBA player, the other a WNBA player. The WNBA exists precisely because women can’t do “the same job” but there is a market for watching women do the job. It’s just not as big as the market for people playing at the highest level of competition.

The reality is that if the market were bigger, they’d make more money. Help make the market bigger. Be the change you want to see in the world.

callouscomic ,

I’m gonna bet that corporate executives are bigoted assholes and increases in profits won’t substantially go to the women players.

Empricorn ,

This is a great response. If you want to support them, great! Donate, volunteer, watch their games, whatever. For the rest of us, it’s an entertainment product. I don’t watch WNBA because I don’t watch NBA, or any sports. But if you like basketball, yet draw the line at the players’ genitals, that’s weird.

Good4Nuthin ,

either way, that would buy a lotta tuna.

Vinny_93 ,

Nick Kroll does not look impressed. Then again, he never does.

majestictechie ,

I had to do a double take scrolling because I was like “Wait, what that Nick Kroll?”

apfelwoiSchoppen ,
@apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world avatar

Nick Kroll and John Mulaney for those who don’t know.

Ejh3k ,

Wow. I thought the guy on the left was from arrested development

Lemminary ,

This reminds me of how well I can do algebra and calculus but need to whip out the calculator for the tip.

AlligatorBlizzard ,

Tips are easy. You move the decimal point (10%) and double (20%). Or find 10%, half of 10% is 5% and add that 5% to whatever 10% was for a 15% tip. And fudge the numbers to make the math easier when it makes sense to, it’s a tip not a math test.

Lemminary ,

Easy for you to say! You don’t have scrambled eggs for brains. 😜

hemko ,

You’re going to far. 0% of any sum is 0

user224 ,
@user224@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

What are you guys talking about? Tip is just rounding up to banknotes-only. €37.25? You pay 2x€20.

EatATaco ,

This is the way I do it. Often I just divide by ten and multiply by two, but I’m a generous tipper, and it’s one less head math step.

The funny thing is that this basically how common core math works: get to the answer by doing as much easy math as possible.

Sibbo ,

A

walter_wiggles ,

Is that your final answer?

Vinny_93 ,

Considering 1 percent of 12 million is 120k I guess that’s about right.

JackbyDev ,

Final answer?

Vinny_93 ,

Y… es. Yes. No. Yes

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