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Let's be real, who here watches the WNBA?
So if you aren't a top caliber professional you shouldn't participate in it? What company do you have a pro model board on?
I never said that women shouldn't participate in skateboarding. I would however like to know how many people on here have bough an Elissa Steamer board or any other girl's pro board? I am curious, because my guess is that little to no one has and this simply creates a divide in genders for skateboarding (ie all girl teams or something that seperates themselves from the industry).
Everybody's acting like it can be an equal playing field and it should be, when this is probably a very difficult standard to achieve. Just look at all the struggles of implementing Title 9 into women's collegiate sports. It has greatly increased the amount of women that participate in sports all the way up to the Olympics but there's no way that something like that could guarantee that companies will succeed by making their teams on half women half men or something like that.
My real point is you all say that you back girl skateboarders and think they should be allowed in the sport, but nobody wants to support them directly. Yet you're pissed because some cocky douchebag says that they don't have a place in the sport, when y'all have helped make it true.