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ofiann (1,224 Posts)	Posted: 04-Feb-2012 23:01	Quote Edit Delete Report Post Post Reply
ofiann (1,224 Posts)	One of my guilty pleasures is reading Kevin myers. His article today isn`t stacked woith the usual bitterness as he pays tribute to some1. But the vitriol in his some of his articles attacking women..... Either he is wumming, or he has a serious issue. He could actually be a great journalist if he didnt write so childishly... I wonder how much alcohol is involved when he takes pen to pad
frasiercrane (1,843 Posts)	Posted: 04-Feb-2012 23:10	Quote Edit Delete Report Post Post Reply
frasiercrane (1,843 Posts)	Kevin Myers: How long before the stout bastions of the English Lawn Tennis Club fall to the assaults of abuse, whingeing and feminist curses? Thursday February 02 2012 THE fictions of the equality industry are never quite as ludicrous as they are in tennis, a sport infested with egalitarian mumbojumbo and feminist voodoo. At least at Wimbledon, chaps are still paid more than the girls. But how long before the stout bastions of the English Lawn Tennis Club fall to the assaults of abuse, whingeing and feminist curses that are the standard weaponry in all such sieges? For any logic-based argument that demands gender equality in tennis is simply impossible, because all the evidence is spectacularly in the opposite direction. That said, seldom has the difference between men’s tennis and women’s tennis been as dramatically illustrated as in this year’s Australian Open Finals, the prize money for which, men’s and women’s, is the same: A$2.3m (€1.9m ) . The chaps’ five-set match lasted nearly six hours, before Novak Djokovic triumphed over Rafael Nadal. The ladies’ three-set match lasted one hour and 12 minutes, as Victoria Azarenka beat Maria Sharapova. That is 353 minutes for the males to 82 minutes for the females, which even by my limited understanding of chronometry is not quite equality. One of the men’s five sets was actually six minutes longer than the entire match for the women. The two girls between them scored 99 points, which is 1.2 points a minute. The chaps scored 369 points, which is one point a minute. But dear readers, you do understand the difference between what happens between a serve and point being scored in the two competitions, don’t you? Relatively speaking, the girls amiably paddle the ball backwards and forwards like elderly spinsters in a nudist colony, while the men hit it hard enough to bore a horizontal test-well through an armadillo. Moreover, the average serving- speed of both men for ALL their serves, including their duds, exceeded the very fastest individual serve of each girl by between 20kmh and 30kmh. The average speed of Djokovic’s second service was the same speed as the average speed of Azarenka’s first service. Which perhaps explains why there was just one ace for the entire match between the women, while the men scored 19. Between them, the lads took the game to the net on 50 occasions. which is when it gets fast, furious and deadly. The lassies managed 15 net-contests, though I imagine that their little face-to-face encounters resembled a Hebridean women’s wool-working session compared to the Vietnam that is men’s netplay. The official computer readout – alas – didn’t have the total number of ball-strikes during a game, but it did have one related statistic. The wenches’ champion, Azarenka, is said to have won 47pc of all rallies containing “two or fewer shots”, “fewer shots” being a nice euphemism here for one shot, though calling this a “rally” requires a certain terminological inexactitude. Djokovic, on the other hand, won 48pc of three-toeight shot rallies, which – I think you’ll agree – numerically merit the term. Where the girls absolutely do win is in sexual allure, for both male and female spectators. Indeed, for decades, one of the main talking points of wenches’ tennis has been their knickers. Moreover, the lanky Russian Sharapova looks like a supermodel, and every time she hits the ball she sounds as she’s having a deeply intimate experience, the sharing of which she has chosen, very kindly, to include in the overall cost of admission. This is jolly sporting of her, and I for one would certainly rather pay to watch her doing that than trying to play tennis. As for Azarenka, no immediate image comes to mind. However, when I’m in doubt about a she-player, I try to think of the Williams sisters: always a strangely pleasing picture. Speaking of which, a couple of years ago, a Williams girl went one better than her peers, choosing to wear skin-coloured tights and no knickers, so appearing to be playing naked, but – how shall I put this? – in the Californian manner. Girls’ tennis suddenly became a far better place. However, male tennis underwear is only ever of interest to the shrieking tennisgroupies, who presumably make the post-match showers just about tolerable for the chaps. But remember where this column started: the financial travesties of last week’s Open, which actually happened in the former land of Diggers, men’s men who would refer to one another as “blokes” and to women as “sheilas”. That, of course, was when Oz tennis players called Ken and Rod ruled the world. But since then, Aussies have apparently been diluted into a bunch of politically correct diversity-loving San Franciscans, who not coincidentally have abandoned the word “bloke”, and instead refer to everyone as “guys”. An Australian male tennis champion is now as likely as Germaine Greer, lap-dancer. So the sisters presumably would have had no problem bullying these antipodean wimps into accepting that 99 points over 82 minutes is worth the same as 369 points over 353 minutes, and that a she-champ whose very fastest individual serve is 23kmh slower than the average speed of the he-champ’s should be paid the same as him. And on Anzac Day, these spineless New Australians no doubt solemnly remember all the men and women who fell at Gallipoli.
frasiercrane (1,843 Posts)	Posted: 04-Feb-2012 23:22	Quote Edit Delete Report Post Post Reply
frasiercrane (1,843 Posts)	I happen to agree with him on the tennis issue.If I was a male tennis player I`d be fairly ticked off that the female players get paid the same money for Grandslam events despite not having to work anywhere near as hard.the male players must put an unhuman amount of physical preparation in order to cope with the length and intensity of their matches and there is no way the womens game generates as much money or interest as the mens game these days so I cant understand why they are receiving in real terms more money than the men.Although I am almost sure at wimbledon both the men and women get paid the same and so his argument that the LTA are not awarding the same amount of mony to men and women is wrong and shows he must do barely any research This message has been edited - 04-feb-2012 @ 23:23
Larkin (4,404 Posts)	Posted: 04-Feb-2012 23:58	Quote Edit Delete Report Post Post Reply
Larkin (4,404 Posts)	Every time I see one of these articles I think of that Susan McKay and I am almost tempted to e-mail the Commandant to give him a cyberistic pat on the back. I have thus far failed to do this because these two people are the extreme sides of the same argument.
ofiann (1,224 Posts)	Posted: 05-Feb-2012 00:29	Quote Edit Delete Report Post Post Reply
ofiann (1,224 Posts)	Originally posted by frasiercrane: I happen to agree with him on the tennis issue.If I was a male tennis player I`d be fairly ticked off that the female players get paid the same money for Grandslam events despite not having to work anywhere near as hard.the male players must put an unhuman amount of physical preparation in order to cope with the length and intensity of their matches and there is no way the womens game generates as much money or interest as the mens game these days so I cant understand why they are receiving in real terms more money than the men.Although I am almost sure at wimbledon both the men and women get paid the same and so his argument that the LTA are not awarding the same amount of mony to men and women is wrong and shows he must do barely any research I read that argument, and has has a point, which he could make in one sentence if he wished. men play best of 5 sets, women best of 3..pay them on that ratio! but hmmm its the way he labours over one point, its really childish. I just wonder what trauma he has suffered at the hands of females to make him write so
m_the_d (1,199 Posts)	Posted: 05-Feb-2012 00:46	Quote Edit Delete Report Post Post Reply
m_the_d (1,199 Posts)	I used to read him when he was in the times. He wasn`t always like this, so when did he become so vitriolic, or am I blinkered?
Fintan Harris (257 Posts)	Posted: 05-Feb-2012 01:23	Quote Edit Delete Report Post Post Reply
Fintan Harris (257 Posts)	Fascism, as any basic definition shows, means hating the weak and worshipping the strong. Since when has Myers failed to live down to this ideal?
Yojimbo (13,947 Posts)	Posted: 05-Feb-2012 01:34	Quote Edit Delete Report Post Post Reply
Yojimbo (13,947 Posts)	Originally posted by m_the_d: I used to read him when he was in the times. He wasn`t always like this, so when did he become so vitriolic, or am I blinkered? You`re blinkered: the whole point of Kevin Myers is to take the unpopular, or contrary view, and milk it for all its worth. If he were in any way reasonable, he`d have lost the plot
Sa Bhaile (1,797 Posts)	Posted: 05-Feb-2012 01:55	Quote Edit Delete Report Post Post Reply
Sa Bhaile (1,797 Posts)	Our Kevin is dead right. And it`s not just tennis. I expect his next article to be about sex. He knows more about that than the vast majority of us, allegedly. We can spend ages rootin away, any of us with beerbellies have to work up a sweat and the wimmin just lie back, moanin or laughin or screamin or smokin. And if anyone gets paid at the end of the day, it`s the woman! Riddle me that Kevin!
lasthighkingofeire (193 Posts)	Posted: 05-Feb-2012 11:31	Quote Edit Delete Report Post Post Reply
lasthighkingofeire (193 Posts)	He is wrong, men and women get paid exactly the same at Wimbledon, very poor research: http://aeltc2010.wimbledon.org/en_GB/about/guide/prizemoney.html
Blanco (7,909 Posts)	Posted: 05-Feb-2012 12:24	Quote Edit Delete Report Post Post Reply
Blanco (7,909 Posts)	Originally posted by Larkin: Every time I see one of these articles I think of that Susan McKay and I am almost tempted to e-mail the Commandant to give him a cyberistic pat on the back. I read in one of the papers last week that she has resigned from her position as head of the National Whingers council in protest over cuts to it`s funding, so you see Larkin not all cuts are bad news. This message has been edited - 05-feb-2012 @ 12:27

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