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Originally Posted by Juanda Had Trips
Still I think it's ridiculous to act like you're being discriminated against because you can't play a tournament.
It's not ridiculous if it's true. It's not "like", men
are being discriminated against in this case.
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It's a social event before anything and I don't think there's anything wrong with prohibiting men to play on a moral level.
WSOP events are not "social events before anything". They are public sport competitions. If you gather up some girls at your home for a drunken home game - I could care less. If WSOP discriminates against men or women or gays or blacks or whatever - I care.
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It's good for the game, its a gateway to bringing more women to other events...
Honestly, I don't care if more women or more blacks or more whoever play. The game welcomes everyone, no one is being purposefully kept out. Widespread harassment of women by men at the tables is a myth. In my experience it's actually the opposite - women at the table are often able to get away with much more than men. Women in general prefer slots. Let's be honest, on the whole they just don't enjoy poker as much as slots for example. Just like most men don't enjoy slots.
There's no "higher goal" of bringing more women to the sport. The doors are wide open for them or anyone else. If by "good for the game" you mean it brings more weaker players to the game - I don't care about that either. I think poker has become and should be a serious sport, not an easy way to make a lazy buck off the fish. So I don't care about "what's good for the game" which is a code for "whatever brings in more fish for us". I care about fairness, I care about equality.
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with some men acting the way they act when its 9 men and only 1 woman at the table
It's a myth. I've played 5 days a week for close to two years. I've never seen anything like that happen. Women have always been treated with utmost respect. In fact, I have seen women get special treatment e.g. break rules repeatedly and not get in trouble, etc. I'm sure isolated cases of inappropriate treatment happen but there's absolutely no widespread problem.
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I don't think its despicable or disgusting that women want to be with other women rather than surrounded by men in a social event, especially if they're new to (live) poker and feel unconfident/uncomfortable.
Some white men felt uncomfortable with blacks so they used to ban them from their events. So that was OK too then, right?