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If you want evidence that “protecting women’s sports” was always bullshit, look at the comments on articles about WNBA’s union negotiations (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by andros_rex@lemmy.world to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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Dollars to donuts the same people posted comments on articles about trans athletes.

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[–] PagPag@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (12 children)

WNBA is pretty hard to watch tbh.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Regardless of whether you like it, they still should be getting paid fairly.

Over in the NBA, revenue (TV deals, ticket and merchandise sales, etc.) is split evenly between players and owners—players receive between 49% and 51% of basketball-related income.

In the WNBA, players reportedly only receive 9.3% of league revenue, per Market Watch. That single-digit percentage is much lower than what other athletes in professional sports leagues earn (NFL and NHL players also get roughly half of all revenue).

[–] PagPag@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Agreed.

Never realized the significant disparity.

Always assumed it was just because nobody watches it and nobody really goes to the games.

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