[flavio321]

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I wonder how many people who complain about "marginal female talents getting attention and sponsorship solely on their looks" are in this very thread, contributing to the double standard syndrome they claim to detest?

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If women only got sponsorships out of merit then JJ Liu and Kathy Liebert would have the best sponsorship deals amongst women.
World doesn't work that way though.

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Won't disagree that the world does not work that way. Will be rabid to the death that it SHOULD, especially in a game like poker where women CAN compete as equals.

I mean, if we had a "10 fattest slobs in poker" and somehow insinuated that those on the list were LESS worthy of attention because of their girth, it would look pretty stupid, wouldn't it?

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it makes up for the milleniums of oppression they faced.

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No, if anything, treating female poker players as equals, competing against them honorably and trying to take their money before they take yours.. that would make up for millenia of oppression. I'd think that insisting on holding up female poker players as sex objects instead of for their skills would, in fact, be filed right under 'oppression'

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you are right actually. it only objectify them. but you can't fault them for taking advantage of what was given to them. male poker players have done the same so there isn't a double standard.