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Let's call a spade a spade here: these men who play the women's events do so because they think it's a "soft" field. Which is the ultimate slap in the face to ALL women poker players.
Right, but then what is the best way for you, as a woman, and for all women to go about proving those men wrong?
By feeling insulted, and bitching and moaning about it on the internet, or by playing your A game in the tournament and outplaying those men, proving to them, that you are better then they thought you were.
Actually forget about proving it to them, prove it to yourself. Go out there, play your best game, and prove to yourself, that the ladies event isn't a soft field.
Also, as an aside, I wouldn't take it so personally anyway, the majority of events at the WSOP are, in fact, pretty soft over all, filled with a lot of dead money. It's not an insult to women to assume that the majority of the entries in the ladies event are dead money, just as it isn't an insult to men to assume that the majority of entries in the Main Event are dead money.
It's mostly just the facts, regardless of gender.
As for the women in the ladies event that aren't dead money, they should be delighted if the men entering, just naturally assume they are weaker players. Any edge you can get in poker is crucial to your win rate. Being under estimated by your opponents is an edge, often times it's a huge edge.
Personally I know, if my opponents think I am weak, and dead money at the table, I am more then happy to let them go on thinking that. Why let them know the truth, and in doing so, give them more accurate info, and lose my edge?
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Did it ever occur to anyone that maybe Rosa plays these women's events instead of tables full of men precisely because of the kinds of rude behaviors like Wicked Chops? That she wants to avoid the rudeness about her gender? That other women maybe have been subjected to rude behavior and crude comments and simply want to play an event with other women?
I really don't want to ignite a whole new argument in saying this, ... although I probably will... but to be honest, women do not and have not experienced redicule and harassment on the same level that Trans individuals have. Over the past few years, I have spent a lot of time and had many close relationships with TS's, and in my personal experience, I would say, sure they may feel like a women, but it's not quite so simple as just saying, they feel like a women, so they are a women. It's not that simple for them as individuals, or for society. And saying that their treatment by society, as well as their inner battles, trials and tribulations are the same as a womans, is just not true.