You knew this was coming. After the US Women’s National Soccer Team won the world cup, lefties were all clamoring to demand equal pay for men and women athletes. Now a pair of democrats are demanding a hearing to find out, among other things, why the men of the NBA make more money than the women of the WNBA. This is kind of asking why Robert Downy Jr. earns more than the ShamWow guy.
Minnesota Senator and 2020 presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar joined forces with Nevada Senator Jacky Rosen to write the dumbest letter ever written. Addressed to the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, these two democrats did their very best to embarrass the shit our of themselves:
We write to respectfully request that you hold a hearing in the Commerce Committee on the significant issue of pay disparity between men and women athletes in the United States.
This week, the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team (USWNT) united the country and inspired generations with the clinching of its fourth Women’s World Cup Championship title—making them the most successful team in international women’s soccer.
Actually the angry lesbian America-hating women of the USWNT did their best to divide this country, but whatever.
Despite the women team’s extraordinary success, reports have highlighted the fact that USWNT players have made only 38 percent of what players on the USMNT earned in previous years, and recent reports have made clear that disparities still persist.
So far this isn’t too bad, but here’s where it goes completely off the cliff like Thelma & Louise:
The gender pay gap is not limited to soccer—it spans many sports in the United States…Last year in the Women’s National Basketball Association, the maximum veteran player salary was $115,500, while the men in the National Basketball Association earned a minimum salary of $582,180.
Is this something that really needs to be explained to these two democratic lawmakers? I guess so.
The NBA is a $7.4 billion a year industry with a lucrative TV contract, corporate sponsors, and generates brisk revenue from attendance and merchandizing. The WNBW generates no money and has to be subsidized or the league would fold. They have no TV contract, nobody goes to see them play live, and sell around 5 jerseys a year to gay weirdoes.
Is it really that hard to understand why Steph Curry makes $40 million a season and some chick who nobody ever heard of doesn’t? I think it’s astounding that WNBA players make 6-figure salaries given that there is zero interest in the sport.
In drafting this ridiculous letter, Klobuchar and Rosen are demanding equal pay for men and women professional basketball players. That’s completely outside the powers and jurisdiction of the United States Congress but hardly the biggest problem with this. If democrats were able to force equal pay for men and women professional athletes, it doesn’t mean the woman are going to start making $40 million a season, it means everyone would earn $100,000 a year. That’s another way of saying it would destroy all men’s professional sports.
Klobuchar also raged about the fact that men tennis players and golfers earn more than the ladies:
Despite four Grand Slam tennis tournaments in which men and women players are compensated equally, women tennis players are only earning 80 cents on each dollar that men earn in other matches. Although the Ladies Professional Golf Association this year will distribute a record of roughly $70 million in prize money, this is only close to one-fifth what the men will receive from the Professional Golf Association Tour.
Just stop it you silly democrats.
Here’s what’s going on here: Liberals love throwing out the debunked stat the women only earn 70% of what men do. The problem with that is the are comparing what all men make collectively to what all women earn collectively and men have more professional high-paying jobs while many women have minimum wage jobs. They aren’t comparing the salaries of men and women who have the same jobs, education, and experience.
What Klobuchar and Rosen think they’ve stumbled on to with professional sports is men and women who have the same exact jobs but aren’t paid the same. The problem is, sports is entertainment and entertainers are paid based on what they bring in. Superstars make more than schlubs. It’s that simple.
I do look forward to democrats attempting to regulate the sports and entertainment industries however. Entertainers have been firmly in the democrats’ corner, but that will change the instant the lawmakers start telling actors and athletes how much they are allowed to make.
