Disgusting.
Oh how Santa Monica pounded its chest in announcing that its World Surf League was the world’s first, first, sporting organizational body to provide equal pay for both men and women. That it represented the largest civil rights shift since Russia freed her serfs. But do you not remember? Do you not recall the breathless press release? Let’s practice retroactive journalism together here and now.
The World Surf League (WSL) today announced that it will award equal prize money to male and female athletes for every WSL-controlled event in the 2019 season and beyond, becoming the first and only US based global sports league, and among the first internationally, to achieve prize money equality. The WSL is proud of its commitment to gender equality, and proud to join other organizations beyond the world of sport reaching this important milestone.
Of course the WSL’s public relations busy bees, trapped in reclaimed cubicles, slaving under the ominous glare of Erik “ELo” Logan’s pearly whites, pushed the narrative out to the mainstream media.
Equal.
Equal.
First in equal.
Except it’s all a damned lie. An absolutely egregious display of bald-faced hypocrisy not seen since… since… Mark Zuckerberg.
For how much did our big wave brother and sister make after surfing heart-stopping Jaws?
$20,000.
And how much does the winner of every Championship Tour surfer make?
$100,000.
This discrepancy sickens me as it should sicken you.
#EqualityForWaveSize
No?
Obviously yes, troglodyte.
Shame.
Shame.
Shame.
One for Chas
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Paige Alms scored 0.8 points + 6.17 = 6.97 total.
Billy Kemper scored 3.77, 2.57, 3.77, 5.20, 7.83 + 5.60 = 28.74 total.
Yes, its inequality.
The big wave men (I don’t think there were official WSL sanctioned big wave women at the time hence they did not exist) had to do everything short of unionizing to get the WSL to even agree to any kind of health insurance for events. They were being forced to be independent contractors. So if something terrible happened, tough shit. Not sure the current state of that situation but what a bunch of assholes.
“Put your ass on the line for us so we can make money, we will barely pay you enough for a plane ticket and you’d better not get hurt!”
Carrot! “You will be a hero for short a period of time..” Go get ‘m boys! Can only imagine the high of riding through the guts of Jaws with success. So what’s it like two to three days later when you can’t get that experience. Days after getting a solid head high cave down the street I’m a mess. Right about now Kemper got to scratching at his skin.
It was dogshit Jen. Wonky cheddar during high tides, fog rolls in glassing the surface as the tide pulled all the swell and the blowins arrived. Drove from my secret point break all the way to Zuma checking every stop on the way and drove home only to find my favorite bar b que place in Ox closed for good. Even the hybrid Purple Punch Indica could not revive the day’s enthusiasm. And that shit makes a lotta shit look fun.
There’s a genuine article about feminism and equality in surfing to be written here Chas, but put on the flame proof suit if you dare write it.
I feel as though the big wave tour should make a little more than the CT because honestly, the reward has to be worth the risk. literally risking your life on those waves, and you wouldn’t have to pay that large prize as many times as ct winners. but what do I know! prolly nothing.
20k is probably Elo’s Monthly promo account for restaurants and such. A shame these immortals get paid pocket lint. No wonder Billy K is so fuckin pissed off all the time, can we blame him?
In keeping with your equality theme Chas, can you encourage the WSL to address nepitism and cronyism in Hawaiian lineups. Its not an equal playing field if our favourite surf athlete cant get waves in the warmup session.
Dude you beat me to it, I was gonna type the same thing!
I’ve been so busy keeping up with this surflie swell, driving everywhere looking for the perfect nuggets with everyone from everywhere chasing the same dream that I forgot about that quote from Kropotkin altogether.
Now all I want to know is who the masked surfer is in the video on my screen that is destroying lefts like a thin Dane Reynolds???!!!! These BG videos were annoying as fuck until they employed anonymous. And the mask!
How she made the final is very dubious, getting a 0.4 for going over the falls on a wave she didn’t paddle for. If I was Flic, I’d be pissed.
Page rode one fucking wave! Not a bad payday.
Cirque de Soleil. Mid Air 30 FT. Free Falls. Boom Boom.
Commercial.
While guilty of much, the WSL can’t be mocking the dreams of MLK.
Why you ask.
Because Democrat Congressman Steve Cohen called dibs on MLK before you. Trump is affronting, mocking and bad orange man-ing MLK. And women’s suffrage.
“President Trump’s subversive and illegal actions….are an affront to the memory of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr….”
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Size matters to the women.
Men too!
Only 10 %
I think more to men.
The Lord proclaimed: “It ain’t the meat it’s the motion”
https://youtu.be/8IkNDzvCswU
Have you and Chas sexted pics to one another at any point in the past?