Quote: (09-09-2018 08:16 PM)Avadhuta Wrote:
The WSL has now decided that men and women surfers would receive the same prize money.
http://www.worldsurfleague.com/posts/345...w-calendar
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CEO Sophie Goldschmidt announced equal pay for men and women across all WSL controlled events, something that six-time World Champ Stephanie Gilmore described as, "Incredible, and I am thrilled. The prize money is fantastic, but the message means even more."
"From the moment current ownership became involved, the situation for the women surfers has been transformed for the better in every way," continued Gilmore. "We have been so appreciative, but this takes it to another level. I hope this serves as a model for other sports, global organizations and society as a whole. My fellow women athletes and I are honored and inspired to reward this decision with even higher levels of surfing."
Eleven-time world champion Kelly Slater said, "The women on the Tour deserve this change. I'm so proud that surfing is choosing to lead sports in equality and fairness. The female WSL athletes are equally committed to their craft as the male athletes and should be paid the same. Surfing has always been a pioneering sport, and this serves as an example of that."
"Being a father myself, trying to raise two strong, independent girls, to be able to send them out into the world knowing that they'll be on equal footing and that surfing is a legitimate career path for them is really exciting," added WSL Surfer's Rep Buchan.
It truly baffles me that a legend such as Kelly Slater would go along with this. This man has won the championship 11 (!!) times and knows better than anyone how much work and dedication it takes to be at the top and earn the prize. I just don't get it.
Sport feminises men, and masculinises women.
-Nassim Taleb
Never, never mistake a man's sporting prowess for general competence at life or red pill. The ancient Greeks regularly pissed on the Olympics and similar sports as distracting men from proper pursuits such as thought or war.
That aside, Slater has pretty much all the expected back history for him to be pissing blue pill.
Mother uses her maiden name (Judy Moriarty), so there's high odds of a divorce or a passionless for-convenience marriage. She was a EMT responder ... aaaaaannd a firefighter, apparently. Odds are on he got assfucked with the "Women iz strong ppl" thing from an early age (five bucks says he never watched her at work and watched the other men pull her weight as well as theirs.)
What's his view on marriage, per his own IMDB quotations?
Maintaining marriage seems to be tougher than fatherhood: apparently it's the most difficult thing in the world.
I've got a working theory that the sort of person who calls marriage a difficult thing hasn't married the right person, doesn't trust the person they've married, is too shit-scared of it having seen one or both of his parents fucked over in the divorce, or (very rarely) likes strange too much too commit. It's the male version of Scarlett Johansen's rationalisation for all of her failed relationships being because humans aren't monogamous. If you're really as laid-back as the surfer image suggests, you shouldn't be having any problems with marriage, you'll pass shit tests with ease if you ride the wave just right because you'll present just the right DILLIGAF pose that works.
Maintaining marriage isn't harder than being a father, jackass. You only think that because your Dad working his ass off in a bait-and-tackle shop he owned didn't have time to keep an eye on your firefighter mother who would've been surrounded by ripped, flatheaded men for most of the time in her job.
He doesn't know his daughter. She was born to an ex-girlfriend of his.
https://www.theinertia.com/surf/kelly-sl...ng-hawaii/
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“The whole time my daughter has been raised by her mother almost 100 percent in physical time and I’ve been traveling,” Slater told Bensinger. “The hardest part, I think for me, is my daughter feeling like she doesn’t have a dad there all the time. And that’s hard for her. I know it was especially hard for her when she was younger.”
That'll pay him back eventually. Like a lot of abandoned daughters, she went down the artist path, although her tastes seem to run more Bindi Irwin than leftie period-blood-on-a-canvas. Still, she's only 22. Plenty of time for the daddy issues to surface, and given some of her photographs of women there's a hypergamous little creature hiding away in there.
Remissas, discite, vivet.
God save us from people who mean well. -storm