In an editorial on the resignation of Larry Scott, James Martin concedes that Scott brought barrels of money to the tour, but that he did so at the expense of principles. What Martin does not mention is that putting not only money--but anything--over women's rights is merely reflective of the world's major governments, and is not unique to the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour. Once in a while, a major power will take action against certain forms of discrimination (recall the U.S. boycott during South African apartheid), but never discrimination against women and girls. So it is no surprise that the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour pours its money into countries that are especially brutal to women.
Writes Martin: "And when the WTA’s head honcho has the gall to then suggest that this strategy will help bring about social change, does anyone else just want to wretch?" Absolutely. But in the U.S., we have wretched for years when our own government says that.
Martin also dares us to come up with one major women-only tournament on U.S. television that "isn’t on some low-rent cable channel at a ridiculously inconvenient time." The Family Circle Cup comes to mind right away, and--depending what is defined as "major," there are others, too.
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On the other hand, what better country fro the "Women's" Tennis Association to take a lot of money from. How about a country that hates women. That's justice, and funny!
Good point. Scott followed the money, for better or worse. Not to mention that he would be be hard pressed to find a country that likes women. But I do understand Martin's point, and have made it before myself.
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