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    Quote Originally Posted by BCram View Post
    I think you will find that tennis is very far from a sport for toffs. The sport tries to support good sportsmanship and polite behaviour, there is nothing snobbish about that.
    I said Wimbledon, didn't say tennis in general.

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    Quote Originally Posted by davydook View Post
    I said Wimbledon, didn't say tennis in general.
    My apologies. I misread your comment and took it as condemnation of tennis, in much the same way that cricket sometimes gets labeled as a game for toffs.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Returnofrros View Post
    Don't have sky either but no much time for virtue signalling Wimbledon.

    Tennis has treated some players appallingly.

    Plus the insistence that woman's game is as good as men's. Why do they have to compare it, let it stand on its own.
    I think it is wrong that the women receive the same prize money as the men at Wimbledon but the only play best of three sets as opposed to the men playing best of five sets.
    The women should play the same number of sets as the men or receive 60% of the prize money the men receive.

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    Quote Originally Posted by islaydarkblue View Post
    I think it is wrong that the women receive the same prize money as the men at Wimbledon but the only play best of three sets as opposed to the men playing best of five sets.
    The women should play the same number of sets as the men or receive 60% of the prize money the men receive.
    Why does it bother you? It's not your money

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    The concept of equality is the problem.

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    Quote Originally Posted by grantzer View Post
    Why does it bother you? It's not your money
    Women are always shouting for equality.
    At Wimbledon they are getting more equally.

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    Quote Originally Posted by islaydarkblue View Post
    Women are always shouting for equality.
    At Wimbledon they are getting more equally.
    90% of woman are quite content with equality, 10% support supremacy and a lot of wealthy men also support supremacy as women only short lists, quotas and your gender being protected from criticism under law ......dosent effect them.

    Men should be seeking equality.....not women

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    Quote Originally Posted by Returnofrros View Post
    90% of woman are quite content with equality, 10% support supremacy and a lot of wealthy men also support supremacy as women only short lists, quotas and your gender being protected from criticism under law ......dosent effect them.

    Men should be seeking equality.....not women
    When I was a member of Downfield GC there were some pushy women members who wanted more than equality despite men and women members having had equal rights and paid the same membership fees since the club was founded in 1932.
    Some of these ‘pushy’ women members wanted no new male members admitted from the long waiting list until the number of women members had increased from the 70 members at that time back up to a minimum of 100 women members and they submitted a motion in favour of this at an AGM.
    Fortunately the motion was defeated despite the husbands of the women members who were also members of Downfield GC voting in favour of the motion. These male members were known as the ‘petticoat’ members.

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    Quote Originally Posted by islaydarkblue View Post
    When I was a member of Downfield GC there were some pushy women members who wanted more than equality despite men and women members having had equal rights and paid the same membership fees since the club was founded in 1932.
    Some of these ‘pushy’ women members wanted no new male members admitted from the long waiting list until the number of women members had increased from the 70 members at that time back up to a minimum of 100 women members and they submitted a motion in favour of this at an AGM.
    Fortunately the motion was defeated despite the husbands of the women members who were also members of Downfield GC voting in favour of the motion. These male members were known as the ‘petticoat’ members.
    Fantastic Islay.

    Surely no poster on mad can have a problem with that post.😃

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    Quote Originally Posted by BCram View Post
    The concept of equality is the problem.
    I can't see the problem.

    If Wimbledon or the LTA or whoever it is has decided to share some of its profits with women,then that's up to them.

    Nobody argues the subbie in a cup final should only get half a medal,or half wages

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