[QUOTE=jebartle;2194309]DrSophistic. None of those wins by Kathy Whitworth were against the opponents who Tiger plays against.

You wanna subsidize the difference. It is fair. Grow your sport.

That's ridiculous.

Laura Davies' driver distance, never made it close to the average PGA Tour Player, despite the fact that she out-weighed the average PGA Tour player by some 20 lbs.

2020 Laura Davies By The Numbers | LPGA | Ladies Professional Golf Association

Minor league baseball players play the same game as Major leaguers but get paid much less. Maybe it's because they don't generate nearly as much income as the big leagues do. The only difference is that they can't play the gender victim game.

[QUOTE=jebartle;2194309]Dr
The level of competition in women's golf when Kathy Whitworth played, was roughly the same level of competition found in Mixed Doubles Curling ... in Jamaica.

[QUOTE=ThirdOfFive;2194324]Wasn't my post..............get your "reply" right.

[QUOTE=jebartle;2194309]DrNot my post.....................learn how to post.

I sometimes wonder why people watch women sports. I mean....if it's so you can "watch the best" then you'd watch mens sports. If it's not to watch the elite perform then it must be because you "just want to watch women doing stuff." Which should be a little weird right?

In a lot of sports, middle age amateur men can compete with world class women. Nobody is going to pay anything to watch those guys perform and they are not making any money doing it. But people will pay *at least something* to watch the women. Why?


Joe

Billy Jean King might disagree with that whole male-oriented concept.

Women's sports are an INFERIOR PRODUCT ????? Surely that is in jest. What about women's soccer teams that have won the Olympics Gold medals when the men's soccer teams were ONLY average ?????

Those are SIMPLY unfair comparisons. Yes, the women play basketball with a SLIGHTLY smaller ball, but their hands are smaller - that can't be held against them. They play a very exciting brand of professional and amateur basketball.
......And of course, women can't QUITE run a 100-yard dash as fast as men can. On average women are slightly shorter so can take SLIGHTLY shorter strides. And women are anatomically designed with larger pelvises for childbirth.
............Incidentally, women tend to live 5 to 7 years longer than men. So they are winning that race.
............Incidentally, shorter men tend to live longer than taller men on average. Per scientific studies.

I have a theory about this. People go GA, GA over the top level of everything. From primadonna ballerinas and the top male ballet dancers. People get a VICARIOUS THRILL from watching the best of the best .....and THEY get the monetary rewards FOR BEING top dogs. Quarterbacks in pro football get the same GA, GA treatment. There is EVEN a top vocal performer NAMED GA,Ga......which was smart on her part.
.....My theory is that this TOP DOG mentality goes all the way BACK to ancient man and the TRIBAL leader mentality. Very similar to the LEADER dog in a WOLF pack that has the SINGULAR responsibility to get the pack to an advantageous hunting area.
.......People hunger to see the "best of the best" and tend to relatively ignore the rest.
........Years ago, the tennis fans did NOT want to watch the early rounds of a tournament when the ORDINARY highly skilled tennis pros played each other. They waited to see John McEnroe play Boris Becker or Bjorn Borg.

When is the last time a woman played on the winning team in a World Series?

When's the last time a woman played on the winning team in a Stanley Cup Final?

How many women have played in the Super Bowl?

Who's the last women to beat Rafael Nadal in a Tennis Match?

When is the last time a woman played in the Masters Championship?

Who was the last woman selected as an All Star in the NBA?

I rest my case.

I know, right?
 

So unfair!

And while we're at it, why did Tom Cruise get paid $100 million for "Top Gun Maverick "and Monica Barbaro only got paid $300k? Same movie, they both said words other people wrote, they both looked good. Maybe it's because "Top Gun starring Monica Bardaro" would not have grossed $1.37 billion?

Who's Monica Barbaro ?