Gender Inequality (?)

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Thanks for noticing the BasementDweller -- AtLarge.

I see this same principle play out in my own game. I can hang with some pretty good players at times when the balls are agreeing with me. Leave me enough shots outside my comfort zone and you'll start seeing the limits of my stroke.

Seldom do I watch a female professional and think about how easy the game looks for them. They are always bearing down and so focused, which isn't a bad thing but it just makes me think they are playing a more difficult game. The men on the other hand, there are times when a tough 9 foot table looks like a valley. The game becomes totally effortless for them.

I attribute this difference to the men playing the majority of their shots well within their comfort zone, while the women are often times playing right on the edge of theirs.

The best men are better than the best woman there is no disputing that , however there are a few woman who I could take around the country and rob men who been playing pool all thier life ,Kelly Fisher is one of them she shoots a different game than other woman might be because she's s black belt and has no fear but she can fire balls in from anywhere ,,
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[PINKLADY]

It's about choices. Most women like myself get pretty sick of men behaving like children around a pool table. If we want to get better at the game, we have no choice but to expose ourselves to this type of behavior repeatedly. Even competing against them on a local level is like going to kindergarten sometimes.

It just gets tedious and old and makes most women want to walk away and do something else.

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oh - is that because we're BEATING them????
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and we're smart enough to quit & go make MORE $$$$ elsewhere????

 

[PINKLADY]

No, it's not about smart or stupid... I think it's just a different state of mind....

The way I understand it can best be described like this... when you are in the zone do you play better?....

....I also think that men have more of a killer instinct when competing also,....

i was kidding earlier. and we've had this debate before.... i STILL can't wrap my head around it. i understand what everyone has said, but it simply doesn't make common sense to me. so again, i state: perhaps i have more testosterone than most women????

now what you suggest as "ïn the zone", i relate to. as well, you should, for more than one reason.... when i'm at that place, there's no stopping; no misses. it's complete Force & little technique & pure risk (albeit Trust).

i think it's conditioning & raising. and if you're a mother, you absolutely have that killer-instinct - so that's off the table. i find no excuse for women to not play pool as well as men (except when we lay-down cause yáll's panties are in a wad). yes we are inferior in other sports for physical reasons. but pool, is like chess - intelligence is required.

KK9 & i had this discussion the other night, (cause he's like - "excellent"), and i reminded him that i can be very competitive when i want to be. and that's when he reminded me that my gay male best friend had deemed me: a gay man trapped in a woman's body.

 

[SJDinPHX]

:rotflmao1::rotflmao1::rotflmao1:
oh - is that because we're BEATING them????
:rotflmao1::rotflmao1::rotflmao1:
and we're smart enough to quit & go make MORE $$$$ elsewhere????

Sorry Pinkperson, Nothing is more fun than watching a man, (any man) beat a woman, (any woman) at any game,
'specially pool !..Women can actually only do two things better than men.....Crying, and breast feeding !..:sorry:

PS..But you're definitely right about one thing !..Unless they are real 'ugo's, any smart woman can make more $$$$ 'elsewhere', than a man ! (like maybe the nearest motel?) LOL :thumbup:

SJD...CMCP (Chief Male Chauvanist Poolplayer)

 

[SmoothStroke]

The women play great.

 

[NitPicker]

Life requires balance. Equal importance. If we were all just equal, equality wouldn't have to be demanded, it'd be a given. It's a simple as that.

 

[SJDinPHX]

I can walk from New York to China before most women shoot the only ball that's left on the table, and it's straight in the hole.
When they have a full rack I can go to the moon and back hanging on a sparrow, come home make a grilled cheese or maybe a 10 course meal, clean the dog poop, wash the car, take a nap because it's been a long day, before they go down to shoot a shot, they usually get up again, maybe 20 times.
Excluding a few women, it's painful to watch.

I am not a hater I am actually a fan. This comes from experience and being around many female players, which includes taking a number 1 World Champ to many qualifiers before she won anything. She is one of a few that runs a rack under 18 hours and 93 minutes.

I am not afraid to lose to a woman, I am afraid I will slit my wrists waiting to shoot.
When they stand there mulling over easy stuff looking like a constipated Gilbert Gottfried, I want to stick needles in my eye to ease the pain.

99% of Men play at a nice pace, the other 15% have been to Thailand for surgery.

Damn..I thought I was hard on 'em..Go for it SS... I am sure there will be no repercussions !..Fortunately, most good women know their place (kitchen, laundry room, dishwasher, nail salon, etc.:embarrassed2 Few are foolish enough to venture into 'our' world!

 

[PINKLADY]

Sorry Pinkperson, Nothing is more fun than watching a man, (any man) beat a woman, (any woman) at any game,
'specially pool!....
SJD...CMCP (Chief Male Chauvanist Poolplayer)

....I am not afraid to lose to a woman, I am afraid I will slit my wrists waiting to shoot....

yáll are funny! i feel your pain. it's the same reason i don't play men. (plus, i don't shoot slop)

 

[FranCrimi]

Well, welcome to Men's sports. You must be new to this country A little chirping and squaking is nothing compared to other sports. Let me know when a pool player comes in spikes high into your knee while playing a baseball game, then we can talk

Men's sports? See, the problem is that you may think it's a man's sport but it's not. We have just as much right to be in that pool room as you do, only we have to fade all that bad boy behavior if we want a place to practice and improve. When most women get a taste of what that's all about, they run. Some of us stick it out but I can assure you it's not a pleasant experience.

If everyone would just act with common courtesies, you'd see more women there and playing to a much higher level.

 

[PINKLADY]

it's really irritating when solid women players simply want to practice, and men are either constantly asking for a game via a drink, or betting if we're wearing thongs vs panties....

much less when we whip them across the table from finally folding.

and the last time i checked, JEAN BALUKAS & her pool hall weren't BROKE.

 

[Tramp Steamer]

it's really irritating when solid women players simply want to practice, and men are either constantly asking for a game via a drink, or betting if we're wearing thongs vs panties....
much less when we whip them across the table from finally folding.
and the last time i checked, JEAN BALUKAS & her pool hall weren't BROKE.

Pink, you and I have been friends for a long time, but I must, in all honesty, protest your scathing attack on men.
I have never, in all my days at the pool hall, seen, or heard, of anyone treating a young woman in the way you have just described. Nor, have I ever seen a pair of thongs, or any other type of female undergarment come flying across the room.
You may not know this, but I have been a staunch supporter of women's rights for years. Let me tell you a little story that will demonstrate my sincerity.

A friend of mine had wanted to be a woman for a very long time. He had told me on many occasions that he had always felt he was a female trapped in a males body. Finally after many months of soul-searching he decided to undergo a sex change operation and his doctor scheduled the surgery.
While he was recuperating in the hospital I went to visit him, or I suppose I should say her, and to see how she was doing.
"How did the surgery go? I asked.
"As well as could be expected." She replied. "The doctor tells me that I should make a full recovery and go home in a few more days."
"That's great." I said. "So tell me, what would you say was the most painful part of the operation?"
She thought for a moment, then said. "It was probably when the doctor stuck this giant syringe in my ear and sucked out half my brains."

Now don't tell me I don't care.

 

[Poolmanis]

I did not read whole thread but i got similar opinion that Steve Davis have

 

[pt109]

People can discuss all they want about gender....got some news for y'all...
...the cue ball doesn't care or discriminate who hits it.
The game tells the truth.

 

[Poolmanis]

One thing what comes mind also is women can think daily things when having sex... Men can´t. And if there is even chance of sex normally men can´t think anything after that anyway
That pretty much tell how brains are different with genders. Of course every rule have a exception and some women can have more "man" kind brains.

 

[PINKLADY]

Pink, you and I have been friends for a long time, but I must, in all honesty, protest your scathing attack on men.
I have never, in all my days at the pool hall, seen, or heard, of anyone treating a young woman in the way you have just described. Nor, have I ever seen a pair of thongs, or any other type of female undergarment come flying across the room.
You may not know this, but I have been a staunch supporter of women's rights for years. Let me tell you a little story that will demonstrate my sincerity.

A friend of mine had wanted to be a woman for a very long time. He had told me on many occasions that he had always felt he was a female trapped in a males body. Finally after many months of soul-searching he decided to undergo a sex change operation and his doctor scheduled the surgery.
While he was recuperating in the hospital I went to visit him, or I suppose I should say her, and to see how she was doing.
"How did the surgery go? I asked.
"As well as could be expected." She replied. "The doctor tells me that I should make a full recovery and go home in a few more days."
"That's great." I said. "So tell me, what would you say was the most painful part of the operation?"
She thought for a moment, then said. "It was probably when the doctor stuck this giant syringe in my ear and sucked out half my brains."

Now don't tell me I don't care.

hehehehehe!!!! and this, is why i LOVE :smiling-heart: you! (and AZB)
you've obviously never seen a "thong break" - a good $30 pair can increase it by 5mps.

 

[KRJ]

Men's sports? See, the problem is that you may think it's a man's sport but it's not. We have just as much right to be in that pool room as you do, only we have to fade all that bad boy behavior if we want a place to practice and improve. When most women get a taste of what that's all about, they run. Some of us stick it out but I can assure you it's not a pleasant experience.

If everyone would just act with common courtesies, you'd see more women there and playing to a much higher level.

I don't think it's a man's sport, but if men are involved, you may get a little lip now and again. From a select few. But what I get from pool "bad boys" is far less crap, and far less injuries than from any other sport I played, by far. I've yet to be injured in a pool game, EVER.

So, folks may need a thicker skin to play pool, but at least nobody is trying to take that skin off your body,literally

 

[Rhea]

i think some women are excellent pool players, we know who they are by name. as far as sports, well, softball you're hitting a melon, basketball is ok but wnba is boring, I need some stupid dunks, hockey-no, football-no, soccer-well, soccer girls are hot to me, but they are the best in the worlds most popular sport, gossiping. also, some are really good at sport fukin:thumbup:. the only thing I don't like is women broadcasters in sports they never even attempted to play such as football, no disrespect, but football is a mans game, no women, no girly men, in the words of the great ex-goc of calicali.:thumbup: as far as pool, the two that could comepete are fisher and belukas, maybe Korr in her prime. The rest are good but not in a mans level. maybe if they had the "zone", but I don't believe they do, being in the zone is a dudes thing, they are to intellectual in their thinking, they don't have the feel that men do. if im wrong, so be it, but its my view. sry if I offended anyone, please don't get me banned, im tired of being banned for speaking my mind.

Si Meng Chen is every bit as good as if not better than Alison, Kelly, and Korr.

 

[KRJ]

Si Meng Chen is every bit as good as if not better than Alison, Kelly, and Korr.

You mean she is a rising star, and might, just might, possibly rack up the world tourney wins, national tourney wins, gold medals, multiple player of the year awards, ranked number 1 for six consecutive years, HOF inductee, etc as Allison Fisher.

So, yeah, she's so close to being as good or better than Allison