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Adventures in The Patriarchy™ Vol. XXV: WNBA Under Curious, Novel Form of Siege Warfare

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Chronicling the ongoing intersectional struggle to liberate women — inclusively defined as the legacy kind and the transgenders — from The Patriarchy™, one microaggression at a time.

Multiple WNBA games interrupted by airborne dildos

In what appears to be a coordinated assault by more militant factions of The Patriarchy™, we’ve seen multiple instances in the last week of dildos crashing onto WNBA courts.

The dildo assaults come on the heels of very public demands levied by the WNBA players that the ownership “pay us what you owe us” — i.e., something approaching parity with male NBA players — disregarding, as these gendered economic arguments usually do, the basic economics.  

Via Mises Institute (emphasis added):

At the present time, the average WNBA base salary is $102,249, while the average NBA salary is $11,910,649. In the NBA, the players’ share of the league revenues is between 49 and 51 percent while in the WNBA, the players’ share of the league revenues is 9.3 percent. So, doing some simple math, the WNBA players are demanding the same percentage of revenues as their male counterparts, thus what they are “owed.”

There is a problem with those calculations, however. The most recent count for WNBA revenues is $200 million, while two years ago, revenues for the NBA passed $11 billion. Both leagues have expenses well beyond player salaries, and even with the WNBA’s newfound popularity, the league lost $40 million last year. Economically speaking, the WNBA is not producing wealth but rather destroying it.

This is not an irregular occurrence, but rather a standard feature of the WNBA since its founding in 1997. Had it been an ordinary business, it would have folded years ago, but instead is kept alive in large part because of subsidies from the NBA, which owns 42 percent of the league. Given that this arrangement has lasted for the past 28 years, it is doubtful that the NBA will pull the plug anytime soon. But while the WNBA players are demanding more “revenue sharing,” they ignore the fact that revenues are not what is significant; profits are. Should the players be paid via 50 percent of the revenues, as they are demanding, the league’s losses would grow significantly, enough to scare off potential investors and possibly the NBA itself…

Why is the WNBA losing money while salaries are less than 10 percent of revenues while the NBA is profitable even when half of its revenues are spent on the players? The simple answer is that the NBA has more than $5 billion to pay its other expenses while the WNBA would have only about $100 million for all other expenses if the league’s leadership were to give into the players’ demands.

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For the record, below is the kind of performance that allegedly deserves far more than the current industry average of $100,000+ — in addition to endorsement deals and free rides on chartered planes, which the players demanded and got last year so they don’t have to fly commercial with the peasants.

And, mind you, the individual featured here is Angel Reese, one of the supposed top-tier superstars of the league.

Not exactly your standard Air Jordan.

Still, the lack of comparison notwithstanding, Reese is the beneficiary of a slew of endorsement deals, including a signature shoe deal with Reebok, earning her an estimated net worth of $2 million — still, apparently, not enough for throwing up bricks for a living.

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