Sunday, November 25, 2018

Where’s all the support for Women’s EBI 18? 

I hear a lot of complaints about the lack of equal pay in JiuJitsu for women. I don’t see a lot of those same vocal female athletes who put on women’s training events and seminars giving up press and publicity for EBI featuring women that’s coming up soon. So is the women’s pay things a plug to induce support for your personal event that you stand to profit/benefit from? Is it just lip service to garner attention? Or do you actually care about supporting an event that is actually paying women athletes? People would rather complain than support part of an actual, legitimate, attempt at a solution which addresses the disparity. There’s a disproportionate number of athleisure, lifestyle, and fashion brands that purport to/support and (at least claim to) care about women athletes as part of their marketing campaign. There’s deep pockets in the fashion industry and sporting goods, just walk into a LuLu Lemon store and look at the prices. I’m not buying the whole complain complain complain standard of equal pay while not actually supporting events or recurring efforts to actually invest money into the sport and athletes.


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