Monday, June 27, 2005
Michelle Wie
If you haven't heard of her before, she bounded onto the golf scene last year at 14. I saw a 60 Minutes interview with her at the time. She played the US Women's Open and tied for 39th, and played in three men's events missing the cut in all three of them. In January she missed making the cut by only a stroke though, so not bad. Better than Annika Sorenstam who I think played one men's event and was so embarrassed by her performance she said she'd never make that mistake again - and she's the best female pro golfer. This year the LPGA gave Wie an exemption for the US Women's Open, and this past weekend she was tied for the lead after three rounds, but shot a horrible 84 the final round and dropped out of sight. She was the first amatuer to get an exemption from the LPGA and they did it for ticket sales, and it worked for them. She's the female Tiger Woods.
Women for the most part should remain in their place. Usually that's at home raising the kids, cleaning the house, and cooking the meals. If they have some talent though, then there's nothing wrong with them joining the "women's" pro sport. Yes, there's two of them, the "real" pro sport (comprised of all men) and then the female one that excludes men so they have a chance to win with their inferior skills. Women haven't failed so much so because they are weaker physically, they've failed because (pardon the pun) they have no balls. In pro sports they have allowed themselves to be intimidated into making their ladies sport counterparts. In any single player pro sport the mental game will be as much a factor in winning as skill, and if you allow yourself to be intimidated, then you have no chance. Annika made a weak stab, got her ass kicked, and crawled back over to the women's group and said she didn't think she wanted to do that again. Wimp.
Michelle Wie is a ballbuster, and she wants to play with and beat the men. She LIKES being this nice little teenage girl (though at 6 foot little is stretching it) that goes out on a golf course and kicks men's butts. And before any femmes flame me for my previous paragraph, consider the majority of flack Wie has gotten for not wanting to play in the women's sandbox, has been from women and not men. It seems she has no desire to play with and beat the women, but to play with the men, play at Augusta. (If she can win the Amatuer Public Links coming up, she will be invited to Augusta, they have already said she would be welcome there if she did that) If not this year, maybe next year, or the year after. Maybe she won't ever win, but her skill and mostly her attitude is what makes her deserve to be there.
At least until she's 18, at which point she should be married and at home barefoot and pregnant.
Women for the most part should remain in their place. Usually that's at home raising the kids, cleaning the house, and cooking the meals. If they have some talent though, then there's nothing wrong with them joining the "women's" pro sport. Yes, there's two of them, the "real" pro sport (comprised of all men) and then the female one that excludes men so they have a chance to win with their inferior skills. Women haven't failed so much so because they are weaker physically, they've failed because (pardon the pun) they have no balls. In pro sports they have allowed themselves to be intimidated into making their ladies sport counterparts. In any single player pro sport the mental game will be as much a factor in winning as skill, and if you allow yourself to be intimidated, then you have no chance. Annika made a weak stab, got her ass kicked, and crawled back over to the women's group and said she didn't think she wanted to do that again. Wimp.
Michelle Wie is a ballbuster, and she wants to play with and beat the men. She LIKES being this nice little teenage girl (though at 6 foot little is stretching it) that goes out on a golf course and kicks men's butts. And before any femmes flame me for my previous paragraph, consider the majority of flack Wie has gotten for not wanting to play in the women's sandbox, has been from women and not men. It seems she has no desire to play with and beat the women, but to play with the men, play at Augusta. (If she can win the Amatuer Public Links coming up, she will be invited to Augusta, they have already said she would be welcome there if she did that) If not this year, maybe next year, or the year after. Maybe she won't ever win, but her skill and mostly her attitude is what makes her deserve to be there.
At least until she's 18, at which point she should be married and at home barefoot and pregnant.
