This has always been my stance, Women make up approximately 50% of the population and the WNBA generates 2% of the revenue that the NBA does...

My wife and her friends go to some restaraunt once a month and they buy brand name workout clothes. Go to a game, buy a jersey, take your daughter and make it a thing.

This is a great response. If you want to support them, great! Donate, volunteer, watch their games, whatever. For the rest of us, it's an entertainment product. I don't watch WNBA because I don't watch NBA, or any sports. But if you like basketball, yet draw the line at the players' genitals, that's weird.

It's totally unfair to use Caitlin Clark as an example of the pay disparity as well. She's a rookie on a pay scale. Her salary is less than half the average wnba salary. What's really crazy to me is that the average salary is about 150k with only one woman making over 250k. For the salaries to be that flat seems odd compared to other pro sports but it's just a part of the W having less revenue. Athletes have very strong unions also.

Is bill burr on lemmy?

I'm gonna bet that corporate executives are bigoted assholes and increases in profits won't substantially go to the women players.

In Brazil, is even more common now to people gather to watch the women football national team, not at the level of the men one, but there's even companies where they close up when any of the two teams play, to give people opportunity to see the game.

It's not that they throw a ball around really well, it's that the NBA brings in over 10 billion in annual revenue because of these players. How much are you willing to pay someone to bring in that amount of money?

If anything, more athletes need big paychecks to more evenly distribute wealth from the top. Anything to drive that money into the hands of others.

Sure but if someone paid you $12m a year to throw a ball around, would you take it?

If another team offered you $13m would you change teams?

If everyone else is getting paid $12m, can I just pay you $50k?

Also if the entire NBA colluded to reduce everyones pay by $1m per year, every year, would that be fair and reasonable?

Is that your final answer?

Tips are easy. You move the decimal point (10%) and double (20%). Or find 10%, half of 10% is 5% and add that 5% to whatever 10% was for a 15% tip. And fudge the numbers to make the math easier when it makes sense to, it's a tip not a math test.

If you want a serious answer: athletic ability

She isn’t strong or fast enough

In NBA history, only 1 female player has ever been drafted- Luisa Harris. She did not actually make the team though, or anyways she never played in a game. I don't quite remember. The door is open for women to play-the NBA does not prohibit it, nor do any of the "men's leagues"-it just never happens because women are not good enough.

And how much of The profitability of that industry is owed to state sponsorship, tax breaks, and Monopoly exceptions?

Professional sports needs to learn how to pay its own bills before it can be used as an example of why women's sports aren't profitable.

Nick Kroll and John Mulaney for those who don't know.