the tender trap

How fragile women have become. In the generation where their equality is no longer questioned  they still seem obsessed with the journey and the hurdles they had to overcome.

There's a shrillness in their dismay when a man, in a position of influence, says something they don't like. As with that phenomena Political Correctness, there are sections, within the the female establishment who have an agenda which when scrutinised, uses that last bastion of protest, the influence it has with the media and media types, to protest and degrade a possibly rational argument when it is made against them. They attempt to close the argument down as ideologically 'off piste'.

The issue which raised the ire of the 'commentariat' today was the comment made by the CEO of Indian Wells Tennis, Raymond Moore (a 69 year old South African) that women tennis players should be thankful that the men's game, led by the likes of Federer, Nadal, Djokovic and Andy Murray have drawn bigger crowds and made tennis the money making machine it is, and from which, women benefit. Then Djokovic tweeted that he felt the men should be paid more money than the women because of this fundamental drawing power.

The hair began to fly and the Queens of the Court lined up to denounce, not only what had been said but more importantly, "that they had said it" !

It's this pressure to clamp down on 'free speech', and avenues of thought, which is presumed by the female lobby (since that is what it is) to be out of order. As in PC, there is a growing list of subject matter, issues which are too hot to touch and are definitively influenced by the people who have a connection to the media.

"If the facts get in the way" then it is prejudice and bias which is claimed to substantiate the contra argument, not an expose' that those facts are wrong.

That women's tennis is more 'eye catching' than an edge of seat contest of skill and physical endurance goes without question. From the cut of the jib, some of the most beautiful and athletic women  draw the fans to the woman's game with fashion and shape being as much on display as the volley and serve. Whether you judge the tennis as pure tennis or become a voyeur of the female figure I suppose each has its fans. 

The men seem content to dress in the most unattractive way with baggy crumpled shorts and a colour coordination which is freakish. They are there to play tennis!

The women on the other hand seem to be the total opposite with the tennis dress, a careful revealing ensemble, epitomised by Maria Sharapova, its duality of purpose possibly detracting from the aspect and skill of the game they play. 

"What ever". The almost immediate media response and calls for an apology (which was forth-coming) from that tough band of gender equality activists Billy Jean King and Martina Navratilova 
was enough to send the men into free fall.
There is nothing more formidable than a woman on the war path other than a group of women on the war path !!!