Are you suggesting they make a coed league where only the best get to play. How many female players will make the league.
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todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 4 weeks agoThey 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.
Somethingcheezie@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
EatATaco@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
NBA is coed. There is nothing in the rulebook banning women from the league.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
What about dogs?
nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
If you teach a dog to dunk I guarantee you’ll find a market for it.
StaticFalconar@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
The WNBA is a marketing line item for the NBA. If the NBA didnt give the WNBA their hand out, the WNBA wouldn’t exist.
Tom_Hanx_the_Actor@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
You do know that professional sports is considered part of the entertainment industry, right? This is like you insisting that Margot Robbie and Christian Slater should be paid the same because they do the same job.
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Nope.
There is no rule preventing a woman from playing in the NBA. The NBA created the WNBA and has marketed it heavily in an attempt to get more women interested in the sport. Sure there’s a long term profit motive (more women watching basketball could make them some money) but the WNBA has operated at a loss for decades. But maybe next year will be the year it turns a profit!
Boycotting the WNBA doesn’t get women into the NBA, more the opposite. It’s just screwing over women basketball players because of false assumptions.
EatATaco@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
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.