Our thanks to Mike P for this. The end of the piece:
Williams had admitted in the past that she’d probably lose to a male champion in ten minutes or less.
When interviewed on ‘Late Night with David Letterman’ four years ago, she said: ‘For me, men’s tennis and women’s tennis are completely, almost, two separate sports.
‘If I were to to play Andy Murray, I would lose 6-0, 6-0 in five to six minutes, maybe ten minutes. No, it’s true. It’s a completely different sport.
‘The men are a lot faster and they serve harder, they hit harder. It’s just a different game. I love to play women’s tennis. I only want to play girls, because I don’t want to be embarrassed.’
What Serena Williams should be embarrassed about is earning the same prize money (e.g. at Wimbledon) as the male prize winners, whilst only playing as well as the #700 male seed. Like all her colleagues, she’s a shameless parasite on the men’s game.
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Justice for Men & Boys 
Why should he? She admits he’s right.
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‘When interviewed on ‘Late Night with David Letterman’ four years ago, she said: “For me, men’s tennis and women’s tennis are completely, almost, two separate sports.”‘
See what she’s done there: since they’re ‘completely, almost, two separate sports’ the performance of women cannot be compared to men and so it cannot be argued that prize money can be awarded accordingly. Unfortunately, this transparently disingenuous excuse does not support the assertion that although the women are doing something ‘completely, almost, separate’, and less interesting, they still deserve the same reward because simply saying that a thing is, or is not, does not make it so or not.
Is, say fire fighting a ‘completely, almost, separate’ matter for women? If I burn to death because a female ‘fire fighter’ cannot carry me out of a burning building is it all right because the way she fights fires is completely separate from the way a man who could carry me fights, and is my death of no account as long as she and her privacy are respected? How long before women soldiers who fail in action are excused with ‘it’s a completely, almost,’ different form of warfare and their failure to protect us not examined because we must respect the ladies and their privacy?
I like eating fish and I’m almost addicted to tinned sardines but I would never say that they are as good as fresh sardines, even though I think of them as a ‘completely, almost, separate’ product, and I would never pay for the former more than a small fraction of what I will pay for the latter.
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Paid sport is entertainment. As you say Firefighting is quite a different matter. Many men don’t reach the standard (i’m pretty sure I wouldn’t have being a bid lardy when younger) so are “discriminated against” . As you say how bizarre and dangerous to change standards based on genitalia.
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I can see a real risk that Mizzz Williams’ warped reasoning will be used by those attempting to justify the employment of women who do not even come up to the standard of men who don’t make it; that the standards by which men are judged and to which we are held do not apply to markedly inferior women because women do things in a completely different way. It will not matter that they cannot do anything useful as long as they are assured that no door is closed to them, indulged in the delusion that they can do anything a man do, even though the Williams argument explicitly says otherwise, and are allowed unrestricted opportunities to get themselves, and us, into a very nasty mess, which we will have to sort out after they’ve gone off to find something else to fuck up.
Women’s tennis is not an ‘almost completely separate’ sport; it is tennis played, according to the same rules, by even the best women to a level below that of a significant number of schoolboys, as John McEnroe points out.
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Just looking at ticket prices gives the lie to this. A ticket for the men’s final at Wimbledon is over £3,000 while for the women’s it’s less than £1,000.
People are prepared to pay to see the best and that’s not the women.
It’s a travesty that the prize money is the same and it would still be a travesty if women played the same number of sets.
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The organisers are presumably not making a loss on the tournament yet they’re having to pay the women prize money they have not earned through gate receipts so it’s reasonable to ask if the price of the men’s tickets is inflated to cover the costs of the women’s prize money.
Out of interest, how do the spectator attendance figures for men’s and women’s matches compare?
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Commenting on Serena Williams’s during an NPR interview is not invading her privacy.
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Karsten Braasch v the Williams Sisters
During the 1998 Australian Open, sisters Serena and Venus Williams boasted that they could beat any man ranked outside the world’s top 200. The challenge was accepted by Karsten Braasch, a German player ranked No 203 (his highest ranking was No 38). He defeated Serena, 6-1, and Venus, 6-2. Serena said afterwards “I didn’t know it would be that hard. I hit shots that would have been winners on the women’s tour and he got to them easily.”
So she has tried and knows. Though perhaps 700th was a bit of McEnroe hyperbole .
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Braasch played a round of golf and had a couple of beers before he played the Williams sisters that day.
It just shows how delusional women are, that it came as such a shock to Serena Williams just how inferior she was, to a man who wasn’t even in the top tier.
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Well she has to find some way to complain and make it seem like men are picking on women.
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When people go to a premiere sports tournament they want to see the best. That’s why tickets to the men’s final at Wimbledon cost over £3,000 while those to the women’s final cost less than £1,000. TV viewing shows a similar pattern.
It’s a travesty that the women are paid the same prize money, when they bring in less than a third of the revenue to the tournament compared to men.
Let them have their own tournament and see how they fare.
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It’s surprising even to me because she looks an immensely powerful ‘woman’.
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That reminds me of a certain mad feminist who comments at The Conservative Woman. He/she/it always writes of ‘powerful “kickass” women’ yet the truth is that even the best of them is no better than an average man.
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