butthead aka 216

just feminists!

Cuthbert

Butthead this is right up your street.

Sky Sports News Live Q&A with Beth Tweddle - Twitter responses - Slideshow

Basically Beth Tweddle, a British gymnast hosted a Q&A via Twitter. Loads of athletes and celebrities have done similar.

Anyway she got the inevitable abuse and trolling from the Twitter comedians, again this is not unusual.

Everyone who does a Twitter Q&A gets the same abuse but they have put it down to misogyny toward female athletes. If anything that abuse was quite mild, Stan Collymore losing the plot over the past two days and getting people arrested for racial abuse, just been on the news too.

I love Stan but it all seems a bit silly to me.

djchameleon

It's not the abuse that's misogynistic, it is the lack of coverage that female athletes get compared to men and how little sponsorship they get.

Of course it is silly to you because you aren't losing out on money as a athlete and you aren't a woman so go ahead and laugh it off.

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Cuthbert

It's because women's sport is not as good.

Women's football already receives far, far too much attention for the level of quality on show, it is pushed ridiculously over here, I have played to a decent amateur level and played against a girl who plays for Coventry Ladies (a professional team in the 2nd tier of English football which is very high up) and I'm better than her. Not even joking. The Sunday League team I trained with had players who had been in the academy at Villa, most Sunday League teams would deal with a professional woman's team with ease. This is just one example.

The coverage might have something to do with the fact that female athletes would lose in a head to head with their male counterparts, similar to how heavyweight boxing generates the most public interest based on the fact the bigger guys would beat the smaller guys in head to head fights.

Not even hating, Sian Massey - best official in the Premier League. Jess Ennis - deserves her coverage.

Can you provide some evidence that female athletes lose out on money because they are female?

What about female tennis players who are paid equally to the male athletes despite playing two sets less at Wimbledon?

Source: Wimbledon 2012: Controversy mounts in dispute over women's pay | Sport | theguardian.com

Heather Watson with that real spit.

Every athlete gets abused in these Q&A's, how is that unbalanced m8?

djchameleon

They lose out on money through having less sponsorships. I'm not talking about the money they get paid to actually play the sport.


Also, that's just your opinion that women's sports is crap. Just because you think that doesn't mean they deserve to only get a little coverage. I'm sure they have their fans that would like to hear more about what's going on.

Edit: Also you don't read the links that YOU ever post? I am not saying anything new. This information was at the end of the first twitter link that you posted.

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Fame, fortune, power, titties. People say these are the most crucial things in life, but you can have a pocket full o' gold and it doesn't mean sh*t if you don't have someone to share that gold with. Seems simple. Yet it's an important lesson to learn. Even lone wolves run in packs sometimes.

Cuthbert

Is it?

Merge the male and female leagues then. That will settle it. And nobody can complain either because it's completely egalitarian.

They get the coverage they get because it's not the same quality as you'd see in men's sport at an equivalent level and the coverage falls in line with the public demand and even exceeds it in the case of football. If the demand is there it's met.

This is like youth level coverage, the demand isn't there because the quality isn't the same as the full level and the average fan just wants to see the highest quality sport. Many women also follow the men's football leagues, not the women's.

I could post videos of top level women's football and the quality is laughably bad and yet the women's Euros were live on BBC just as the men's were, the women's FA Cup, live on Sky same as the men's, but I'm sure I've already made my point.

Let's report them equally despite the fact one is vastly superior to the other, OK then.

djchameleon

Soccer isn't the only sport so no , you didn't make your point.

__________________

Fame, fortune, power, titties. People say these are the most crucial things in life, but you can have a pocket full o' gold and it doesn't mean sh*t if you don't have someone to share that gold with. Seems simple. Yet it's an important lesson to learn. Even lone wolves run in packs sometimes.

Cuthbert

Which sports do women outperform men in?

djchameleon

Look at your thought process.

So the only way women should get coverage is only if they can outperform men? GTFO

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Fame, fortune, power, titties. People say these are the most crucial things in life, but you can have a pocket full o' gold and it doesn't mean sh*t if you don't have someone to share that gold with. Seems simple. Yet it's an important lesson to learn. Even lone wolves run in packs sometimes.

butthead aka 216

Women don't deserve the same money or coverage in sports cause the money you make is determined by revenue u bring in. .. ppl don't wanna watch women sports cause they aren't as entertainin..... are we all misogynists cuz we dont watch wnba????? Cmon bro


Benteke that link made me lol very much so thank u