Women only want equality when it suits them!

You know, for a second I was worried you were going to run out of valid points to make and try and get around that by pretending you're clever.

Thank god that never happened.

Indeed, that would have been awful.
If you want to reply to me again, go ahead, but I won't reply or even read it because I'm going now.

Rafael Nadal spent 17h 31 minutes playing singles at Wimbledon. He received £1 million.

Serena Williams spent 8h 36 minutes playing singles at Wimbledon. She received £1 million.

Nicolas Mahut spent 11h 5 minutes playing singles at Wimbledon. He received £11,250.

If that doesn't show that the womens game is an extension of the sheer hypocrisy of equality then I don't know what does

This is a thread about equality not sport so don't go bundling it into a van and into the sports sub-forum

Is that your degrading term for males?

******* feminists

How about ******* ignoramus??
A feminist is someone who believes that males and females should have equal rights THEREFORE feminists can be either male or female.
The feminists that everyone seems to hate (the ones that go schizo and want more rights than men) and female chauvenists.
Don't go shooting your mouth off if you don't even know the facts - if you agree with the OP that the players should have been paid equally by the hour, then YOU are a "******* feminist".

Unless, of course, you wanted the men to be paid more per hour - which I can understand, but for God's sake, stop insulting people who merely want some rights and respect rather than to be told to make goddamn sandwiches every five minutes.

And I'd like to add to this thread that women are still in general paid less than men doing exactly the same jobs, so if one women has managed to tip it the other way for once, good on her.

How about ******* ignoramus??
A feminist is someone who believes that males and females should have equal rights THEREFORE feminists can be either male or female.
The feminists that everyone seems to hate (the ones that go schizo and want more rights than men) and female chauvenists.
Don't go shooting your mouth off if you don't even know the facts - if you agree with the OP that the players should have been paid equally by the hour, then YOU are a "******* feminist".

Unless, of course, you wanted the men to be paid more per hour - which I can understand, but for God's sake, stop insulting people who merely want some rights and respect rather than to be told to make goddamn sandwiches every five minutes.

And I'd like to add to this thread that women are still in general paid less than men doing exactly the same jobs, so if one women has managed to tip it the other way for once, good on her.

This. Feminism is nothing but elitist nonsense. Fair enough to the feminists who just want equal rights but that isn't the majority view of the feminist movement.

They should not be paid equally. No one cares about the women's game, people care about the men's game, therefore men should be paid more.

The bottom part of that is ******* terrible. Sexism is bad, look at how sexist men are, oh wait, it's a woman unfairly benefitting from gender discrimination, then that's fine, actually, good on her.

******* hypocrites.

Now make me a sandwich

Now make me a sandwich

I didn't make the tennis rules up, but then the people who did obviously were trying to be equal and just failed in your eyes, which is the troubel with equality, because it's not actually ever attainable.

Hmmm, looks like I pissed you off. Now how do you think I feel seeing you bash feminists when you have no actual idea what you're talking about?

And I wouldn't say she was benefitting from gender discrimination, if the prize money had been decided after the event in which the man had clearly worked harder and officials had just decided to award the money because of her gender, then that would be the case. But as it is, the prize money was decided beforehand. If stuff like this was going to start being rewarded on a sliding scale of effort, prizes for sports would become pretty messed up.

Make you a sandwich? Sure, sweetie, but only if you manage to actually piss in the toilet and not get it all over the seat

They should not be paid equally. No one cares about the women's game, people care about the men's game, therefore men should be paid more.

No, I think the problem here is that the only feminists you personally know to be feminists (in other words the ones you've used for reference here) are the extremist ones who find everything in some way or another sexist. The truth is that the majority of us want to shut these idiots up.
You've met hundreds of feminists, you just don't know it.

And we in no way want an elitist feminist society. That would be foolish. Think of the progression we as a race could have made if women were never oppressed. We'd be years ahead of where we are now. Why on Earth would we want that again?
It's a genuinely horrrible feeling being overshadowed by a man, just because he's a man. Sexism isn't official anymore but its imprint is still there. In a few years time the movement may no longer be needed, until then it's all about smoothing out the kinks.

What in particular made you think it's 'elitist nonsense'?

This sentence sums up your fundamental misunderstanding of the way the system works. Tennis players don't get paid (I'm not talking about sponsors etc) they receive a reward that is determined by their achievement. Serena and Nadal receive the same reward because they achieved the same success, they were the best in their respective disciplines. If Nadal had won the tournament but had played an hour more or an hour less he would have still got the same reward.

I agree with the principle of feminists only going for "equality" when it suits them, but, as someone who knows relatively little about tennis, this is my suggestion:

Why don't we just make them play the same number of sets?

I hardly think that progression would be as great as you seem to indicate it would be here. What exactly would be so different? The goals of feminism(at least equal rights) have pretty much been accomplished.

The reason I say feminism is elitist nonsense is with all these women who bitch and moan about how pornography subjugates and objectifies women and how women should have more respect for themselves that. What exactly gives a feminist the right to tell another women what she wants to do? Feminists pretty much have this idealistic utopia where all women are doctors or some high-paying well respected position within society. Not everyone can be like that.

Another thing with feminists to me is they also seem totally uncomfortable with their own sexuality and because of that insecurity end up calling men "pigs" etc.

"It's a genuinely horrrible feeling being overshadowed by a man, just because he's a man."

Any women I know as friends don't have this feeling, when has this ever occurred to you I assume it has since you're talking about it? To me it sounds like you have self-esteem issues if this is the way you're feeling.

Women make up over 50% of the population. Of course it would have been greater.
In standardised jobs men get paid more than women. This isn't equal.
These feminists obviosly have bad taste in porn for this, surely we should pity them?
They also call women who are comfortable with their sexuality wh*res and sl*ts and such. Hence we're back to the elitist fems. of which there are few and far between yet everyone knows of.
Most women I know have felt this way at least once. Little instances that add up to quite a lot in the long run. Very mundane things such as men being taken more seriously for the same claims, and don't even get me started on presentations.
I think it's fair to say I have no problems with self-esteem.

Well it's the same for everything. Women, black people, disabled people.

Basically everyone who works for the BBC.

Why would you care? And I agree with schoolstudent, I'm sure they have trained equally as hard..