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Roronoa_Zaraki t1_iu0t7qh wrote

Simply don't understand this, same with tennis, it should always be about how much money they bring into the organisation, not the job they do, on that notion, every lawyer at a law firm should be paid the same, every model in every magazine, every actor in a film, regardless of ability and money generated.

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Deztenor t1_iu0u2al wrote

People want a cause to fight for. Whether or not the cause makes sense doesn't seem to be a concern anymore. The demand for inequality and racism exceeds the supply.

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Mothrahlurker t1_iu1gpfv wrote

People playing for the national team don't have different match fees, your comment makes no sense.

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Mothrahlurker t1_iu4lf95 wrote

It's literally what the article is about, there is only a difference between men and women.

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plumquat t1_iu0wu2k wrote

Well they're going to play with trans women so that conservative men start caring about women's sports.

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plumquat t1_iu371gg wrote

It's just a joke. It's like the conservative men are complaining about equal pay for women in sports because they don't care about women's sports unless there's trans women involved and then they're telling their neighbors dog about it.

Men tend to have low emotional intelligence but is this that sexual competition with women thing. So it's an opportunity to tell women about male physical superiority. Idk why men are like that. I wish you could stop putting women down to jerk off your egos, and mind your own business. Its the world were raised in. Did they lower men's pay. No? Well then eyes front dickbag. You know? It's like a nice thing. So you're shitty that direction, but act like a white knight in the same sentence if there's a trans woman. It's funny.

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tobesteve t1_iu2mbn5 wrote

I don't think conservatives care much about trans people.

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plumquat t1_iu346og wrote

I don't think conservatives care much for trans people.

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jeanclaude1990 t1_iu14dcb wrote

The tennis one always gets me, most men's matches are 5 sets where the women's matches are 3 yet, for Wimbledon at least, they get paid the same

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Roronoa_Zaraki t1_iu191g0 wrote

All slams it's the same now. Yet the women's side brings in 30% of the men's. Djokovic actually has a good point that he doesn't want equal pay because paying male and female players the same actually anchors the men's side's pay, and they aren't earning as much as they could, because they can afford to pay the men more but not the women, and he's not talking about at the top level, he means that guys going out in qualifying and R1 could be paid more but the tennis boards are saving money through the guise of 'equality'.

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GothicGolem29 t1_iu3lua7 wrote

I mean tbf u never hear the mens players complain and it doesn’t affect the men to give them the same pay

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WOKinTOK-sleptafter t1_iu4tc8c wrote

Probably because they would be laughed at and told to suck it up cuz women have it worse.

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Mostly_Aquitted t1_iu1d71l wrote

I don’t really agree with this on the national stage though. National teams really are mainly for prestige in the grand scheme of things, and as such the players should be compensated equitably.

Not specifically discussing this case here, just in general.

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MagmaWhales t1_iu1qkef wrote

Ok but a lot revenue is still generated and the difference in contributions to revenue is night and day

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Hoobleton t1_iu1x6in wrote

And the contracts the men get are worth more than the ones the women get, this is just match fees, which are a minority of the players’ income. You don’t have to worry yourself, men will still be paid more.

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MagmaWhales t1_iu1xp93 wrote

Ok yeah, base level international match fees shouldn't be too different. I thought it was the contracts which would be a farce.

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Hoobleton t1_iu1yea4 wrote

It is the first sentence of the article…

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CesarTheGeezer t1_iu1vurp wrote

>National teams really are mainly for prestige

I'm pretty sure there is prize money.

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Roronoa_Zaraki t1_iu3rm2j wrote

But if the mens national teams bring in huge crowds and TV ratings which they do in a lot sports Cricket, rugby, soccer, shouldn't the men who bring those crowds in be paid more because they earn the organisation more?

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[deleted] t1_iu2aten wrote

I disagree. There is a national team, and a women's national team. If you want to be paid like you play for the national team, make the actual national team.

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alias241 t1_iu1gci9 wrote

This is AKA corporate socialism. The way pay levels are standardized based on years worked, and once you hit a "ceiling" your pay growth slows. Guess what...this actually happens in the real world, unless you're more equal than the others.

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