Today, stupidly, I started talking to Stuart about this week’s Wimbledon matches, and I brought up the subject of equal pay for the men and women and said it was about time. He went mad and said that women claim to want to be paid on merit, except in the cases where the merit can be measured. He said if we were truly non-sexist, we wouldn’t have men’s and women’s Wimbledon, but we would just have Wimbledon and let the best person win. He said that if they did that none of the women would make it through the qualifying matches
Alternatively, maybe the wheelchair and junior competitions could get the same prize money as the Men’s competition. He says all this patting of women on the head and pretending they’re as good as men is condescending and that he’d hate to be treated that way.
It also bothers Stuart when the media claim that some woman player is one of the greatest tennis players of all time, when she’s just one of the greatest woman players of all time, as obviously she plays in a lower-level competition. What about the hundreds of men better than her who don’t get a mention? Blatant sexism is his comment. However, it should be noted, Stuart is easily bothered.
Anyway, didn’t have an answer for him. Didn’t really care. Didn’t mean to shake your cage, Stuart. I was only making conversation.