No more problems ever again!
Oh what a sticky wicket the World Surf League found itself in just a month ago. Do you recall? When the male winner of a South African professional surfing contest earned exactly twice as much as his female counterpart and for the same work? It was an innocent mistake, like they always are (very complicated math equations to blame), but thrust the WSL into the gender equality spotlight.
Some brave souls were quick to reach for the pitchfork and attempt to organize a march on the WSL’s Santa Monica office in order to rectify. Though this never happened it does seem that the the powers that be understood that some change needed to be made. That it is rarely a fine look to trot out men holding large checks and large numbers next to women holding large checks and small numbers. But what?
How?
Well, it appears that a decision has been reached. A very fine BeachGrit reader noticed at the just wrapped Paul Mitchell Pro in Oceanside, California (billed as the largest female surf event in the world) that the women were simply called men.
It is a very progressive solution, one that I think might be replicated across all sport and maybe, if we are lucky, across all society.
Everyone is now a man!
No more pesky large check problems. No more problems of any kind and if all goes to plan the World Surf League’s contributions to women’s rights will be celebrated in museums around the genderless world.
Bravo.
Bravo.
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Not “ the worlds largest women’s surf event” because Cabo let 120 women surf and the Supergirl only let 96 surf. Surfers traveled from all over the world to surf in the contest thinking they were going to have at least 120 in the contest, like they have in the past. It’s bullshit they were promoting “the worlds largest women’s surf event” but weren’t. Anybody that asked why were blocked on Instagram and had their comments deleted on Facebook with no explanation.
This is gold!
Westerly is going to make a comeback. Does he/she get twice as much prize money because he was a man, was then a female and is now a man again? There seems to be a lot of benefits in transitioning.
Lyrics to live by.
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Pete could enter in both. men’s, women’s, double-dip and be WSLs first transgender, bi …. something champ.
But all joking aside, who better to come up with a unified format than the one that started it all ? Westerly or Peter or will it be Nor Westerly Nor Peter but someone else ? It’s a conundrum this swapping back and forth.
Perhaps the prize could be my diseased testicle? The loser gets Sheryl Crow.
You kept the testicle? In a jar?
Made a necklace.
That is… weird. But also? Carissa won A CAPE at that contest, so I am totally in favor of the Super girl Pro. A cape! I would like to win a cape.
I am so happy. My odds for getting laid just doubled
So apart from the pony wankers among us, we’re all gay?
I hope so
Aren’t we on the ‘alternative’ donkey wanking program? I thought Venice adjacent was into ponies.
They do that stand-up horse bondage I think.
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Well, at least they’re not whipping a dead horse.
Approx. 45% of WSL employees are female, including pretty much half the executive roles. So if they’re fucking up the ‘equality’ thing.. it ain’t because of a ‘boys club’.
For the sake of the WSL finances, it would have been better to call the men women at the US Open.
No offence, but some of those women are built more like a man than I am, and I ain’t no wilting petunia.
There is definitely a plethora of powerful feminine thighs throwing big buckets and smashing lips. ( no more washing buckets and lipstick optional ? )