Who Wants To Be A Lemming... on ABC?

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Who Wants To Be A Lemming... on ABC? - Lemmy Today

tbf, Caitlin Clark is the only WNBA player that’s profitable.

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

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

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.

But it’s my fault for not watching?

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

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.