Conversations E16P2 Women's Soccer sports pay disparity Women in men sports Transgender ISIS-K China

Conversations EP16 Part 2 March 20, 2023:
Women’s soccer compensation compared to the men. Are they unfairly paid? We found many differences in the structure of the compensation. We present a deceptive way media report on the issue to make it look more unfair than it is. Even women aren’t watching female sports.
00:02 Sherry presents some numbers comparing men’s and women’s soccer.
01:43 Does Sherry ever watch sports with her friends? Do many groups of women go out together for sports?
04:16 If you watch a lot of sports, you see a big difference between the men and women in team sports. Pittsburgh Passion women’s football team. Women’s tennis is very good.
08:13 Don Lemon upset the women with his opinion on women’s soccer compensation. Don Lemon defended the capitalist system. Left wing see things as forcing opinions on consumers. Truth of capitalism is the purchaser is the greatest influencer on which products are produced.
10:22 If you believe women soccer players are being treated unfairly you can find a news article to counter every argument against the idea. They select numbers and time windows that support the premise. They don’t provide honest analysis. Each union negotiated a different contract. Women wanted guaranteed pay. Men took pay as you play with heavy bonus structure. Men’s pay is at-risk while women chose guarantees.
14:13 Sherry says women aren’t as interested in sports. Megan Rapinoe claimed they should get paid more because they have a better winning record. However, the women’s national team was defeated by boy’s high school soccer teams… twice. How will transgenders affect the competitiveness of women’s sports?
16:26 The success of team spectator sports is based on parity of competition. Trans women will do a lot of harm to women’s sports. Allowing trans women to compete against women will make women’s sports much less appealing to the consumer.
18:36 How Sherry became a soccer fan. It was more related to her physical attraction to the men. A perspective Bob missed in Sherry’s Facebook post. Sherry said men and women care about different things.
21:31 NFL successful in marketing to women. Everyone, including women are attracted to the social event and excitement around spectator sports. The women’s sports leagues need to understand this to develop their product and marketing strategies. Arguing for forced fairness isn’t the best way to achieve long term success.
23:46 Sherry doesn’t like watching women play certain sports. Bob’s wife feels the same way especially about women MMA fighters.
24:58 Bob thinks the team sports are where female athletes are less interesting. Women’s soccer initially attracted Bob but when he saw the men play the skills were obviously superior which made men’s soccer much more interesting and entertaining.
26:51 Bob would like to see more women in men’s professional sports in roles where they can perform at a high level and aren’t at elevated physical risk. Only women who can compete with men. The standards need to be the same. Women’s gymnastics is much more interesting than men.
28:45 ISIS-K involvement in the US withdrawal from Afghanistan. US Centcom said we are 6 months away form ISIS-K being capable of launching surprise attacks against Americans in Europe and Asia. Taliban and Afghan military were enemies of ISIS-K. Now they only have to worry about the Taliban.
31:09 China in Afghanistan. ISIS-K attacked Chinese nationals in Kabul causing the Chinese government to remove all Chinese citizens from Afghanistan.
Details of US Soccer Compensation Women vs Men. Links:
https://www.ussoccer.com/equal-pay-faq
https://www.espn.com/soccer/united-states-usaw/story/4589310/uswntusmnt-pay-gap-explained-comparing-their-us-soccer-contracts-as-both-sides-negotiate-new-cbas