Apparently there remains a need to state the obvious. Few people are interested in women’s sports. And Caitlin Clark exposes the reason why.
Before I explain what many will find a strange comment, let me first discuss a few other points.
First, the reason I want to address this issue is I’m sick of mostly Leftist women complaining about “equality”. Women will never be equal to men.
Now, since many women and virtue-signaling eunuchs are yelling “MISOGYNIST” my way by now, I will happily add that men are not equal to women.
See, it works both ways.
There are many obvious reasons that men and women are not equal, which does not imply that men are better at everything. We are not. But there are things in which we are better. Far better. For most sports, that’s the case.
Look at this meme about women’s soccer. Some Women’s Movement soccer player laments not making as much money as her male counterparts.
I think theres a reason for that g https://t.co/ZsYNokeW9b pic.twitter.com/FdEAZLfnqm
— 🇱🇰 (@BajH1ve) September 15, 2024
As the saying goes, “A picture says a 1000 words”.
In this soccer game, a woman challenges men and got what anybody with a brain expected:
In this next example, one man played against 11 women. Surely he would lose, right?
Imagine being me, a mediocre piano player (note: not a pianist), yet demanding to get paid the same as Billy Joel for a concert. That’s how I see many of these women who want equal pay. They offer a mediocre product, but want to be paid like the big boys (pun intended).
Most interestingly, it’s not even men stopping women from succeeding.
Title IX made funds available at colleges and universities for women’s sports. Then {ahem} professional leagues formed for women, like the soccer and basketball leagues. Women even started boxing and entered the octagon.
Roller Derby be damned, as the stage was set for women to make money as sports professionals. Truth be told, most of these leagues would die a painful death, if it weren’t for their male counterparts, including the pugilist sports. The result of women’s sports has been mostly empty stadiums.
Which brings me to Caitlin Clark
How do women expect to compete with men, when they can’t even compete with women? Caitlin Clark offers the perfect example.
The thing holding women back is as simple a concept as Cain and Abel: jealousy.
Clark entered the WNBA after having an amazing collegiate career. I had no idea who this person was six months ago. Then the buzz came around about her and it got my attention.
Honestly, I remember thinking, “So what. It’s still chick basketball,” an admitted misogynistic utterance, though true.
Eventually, Clark hit my X feed, and I saw her highlight reel. Impressive to say the least. It reminded me of my time on the court with the first female basketball star, Nancy Lieberman, playing pick-up games at SMU.
Anyway, as I watched Clark, I saw the star quality in her. One helluva ballplayer and a stellar person as well. The WNBA would be lucky to have her.
BTW, if Clark were a top pick in the NBA, that’s exactly what men would have done. Any time a dominant player enters men’s sport, the current players declare “Game on!” And by that I mean, the men will up their game; rise to the challenge. Few if any petty jealousies will surface, as we understand that a better player is better for everybody. Sure a few bodies will lie in the wake of innovation, but the carnage is worth it. The fallen comrades readily die a warrior’s death as the new blood infuses into the sport.
And because this has happened so often with men, we have learned to discipline the idea. But not women.
Clark wasn’t welcomed by her peers as a “game changer”. Instead, she was seen as a threat. Her fellow ballers targeted with petty jealousies and bigotry, and their disdain showed on the court.
When you look at how Clark brought attention to the WNBA, you’d think these women would haul to every game like Cleopatra. What Clark did would surely bring much more revenue to the sport as thousands of fans flocked to the game.
I know that I would have never, repeat never watched any WNBA game had it not been for Clark. So to even get me as a Looky Lou says something.
If the WNBA went from an average attendance of hundreds to over ten thousand like Clark’s games, then the ocean will rise all boats.
And what about the caliber of athletes? If women really want to get better, then they need the best athletes. Don’t believe me, just look at sports before integration.
“White” baseball wasn’t the best baseball back in the day. The Negro League put those white boys to shame. Branch Richey saw the writing on the wall, and brought over Jackie Robinson. The WNBA could learn something from that history.
Though less controversial, the NBA had a similar story with the ABA. When they pseudo integrated the game by bringing over the best ABA players like Dr J and others, the NBA evolved to be a much better league. If the MLB or the NBA hadn’t made these changes, they would have been replaced.
Stop the racism and sexism
If there is one thing women can be better at than men, it’s their racism and sexism. So let’s be honest about one other donkey in the room posing as an elephant in the WNBA locker room: racism and sexism.
The WNBA is dominated by Black Lesbian women. And they hate Caitlin Clark because she’s white and heterosexual (I suspect). Truth be told, if Clark were Black, an avowed Lesbian, or the bifecta, a Black Lesbian, the WNBA would have ordered a protective cocoon around her. But because she’s not “one of them”, Clark has taken her lumps.
NFL great turned sportscaster Shannon Sharpe commented on Clark and alludes to the racism:
One of Clark’s biggest supporters since her years in Iowa, Sharpe went on ESPN’s “First Take” and his “Nightcap” podcast on Monday to call out WNBA players he believes are jealous of her and unfairly target her with non-basketball plays.
Sharpe made the comments following an incident in a game last weekend that saw Storm guard Skylar Diggins-Smith bumping into Clark during a timeout. The Hall of Famer felt the bump was intentional as the Storm were upset about Clark “busting” their behinds in the Fever’s 92-75 win.
“If I’m Caitlin Clark, I would’ve told Skylar Diggins, ‘Get your coat, your brim, and get on out of our gym. Y’all stop this foolishness,” Sharpe said. “Y’all see the woman speed up [toward Clark]. Y’all see her — Caitlin Clark is getting the crowd going [during a timeout]. Y’all see Skylar Diggins speed up to make contact with her. Stop this.”
“Y’all mad because that cornfed Iowa girl busting y’all a—. Y’all said, ‘She too weak. She can’t do this.’ She leads the WNBA in assists. She’s cooking — let her cook.”
The Broncos legend took it a step further by saying that Clark’s toughness has been questioned due to the color of her skin, a stigma others such as Larry Bird, Luka Doncic and Nikola Jokic had to endure.
“They said the same thing about Larry Bird — ain’t nothing hype,” Sharpe recalled. “Ain’t nothing hype about Luka. Ain’t nothing hype about Jokic. I get it — we’re not used to seeing [this], but she’s saucy with that thing [basketball]. Watching her twice in person, I can say she is elite. She is the pinnacle at passing the basketball.”
Politics and basketball
The WNBA is fertile ground for loving Leftists, who are anything but. The WNBA women are haters who couldn’t care less about meritocracy. But they will soon convert, certainly if they want their league to survive.
