badrogue17 wrote:
Good read here too. This dumb bit-ch doesn’t even realize she’s destroying her point in what she’s advocating for.
She's right: increasing revenues is the way to equal pay. It's a question of how you go about doing it. Problem is, no one really wants to watch women's soccer in and of itself; the USWNT beating everyone up in the name of The Things About America We Like is one thing, the Chicago Red Stars against [googles their league] the North Carolina Courage is another. Nobody wants to go to Bridgeview. You have to drive and it's ugly and they don't even have Bedford Park's ample water supply.
So how do you get people out to the games and make them pay a lot for the privilege? What you could do is make every game not so much a sporting event but a service in the Church of the #Resistance, kind of like going to
Hamilton but with sports: a prestige ticket. I know soccer fans are pretty allergic to the sorts of in-game distractions of NBA games and so forth that grind the proceedings to a screeching halt, but this can't be about selling soccer, the soccer's not good enough, so I think you would need to do a lot of sideshow bullshit that isn't even so much about soccer so much as stroking your customers, telling them what good boys and girls they are, how bad everyone else is, and generally making a political statement out of going to games at the exorbitant prices necessary to bring women up to par. Fortunately, bougie liberals (and hillbilly liberals with bougie aspirations or whatever you would call Quad City Pat) are kind of stupid, and separating them from their money is like taking candy from a baby with even a halfway decent ad agency involved. You could do lib-friendly post-match concerts, burn Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, and Bernie Sanders in effigy, all sorts of stuff that makes people feel good about their part in fighting the culture war.
The only problem is that the Democrats are probably going to get the White House back in 2020, and once it feels like the problem has been solved (it will not have been solved), there won't really be the need for this sort of conspicuous-consumption mass catharsis anymore, which is what most of the leading Democrats are running on in the first place. If no one is thinking about politics the way they had to, will they still think about women's soccer the same way? idk probably not. Maybe women's soccer needs the gilded cage of a country under conservative/white-nat'list government and liberal cultural hegemony.
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