Snarky the Snark Pwesents ...

Take Back the Sports Page? The political wing of the women’s sports movement is in trouble. These activists are accustomed to challenging timid bureaucrats and university administrators. But in taking on TV sports coverage, they are challenging the market itself.  -Christina Hoff Sommers

[A] USC study praises one alleged positive development: "In 2004, we noted a decline in disrespectful or insulting treatment of women, compared with previous years. In 2009, we saw even less of this sort of sexist treatment of women.” Argues Sommers: “ On this point, the researchers have not been doing their homework  The women’s sports hype-machine, with its relentless ads, insipid slogans (“We Got Next” and “Expect Great”), and grating theme songs—not to mention the relentless Title IX war on college men’s teams—has created a men’s resistance movement that is now brazenly out in the open. And its weapon is humor—sexist, “disrespectful,” and often funny. The last decade, coinciding with the life span of the WNBA, has seen an avalanche of politically incorrect jokes and parody articles at the expense of female sports. Here are a few examples:. • TiVo refusing to record women’s basketball. — Sportspickle.com • Female Athletes Making Great Strides In Attractiveness. — The Onion • The odds a man will attend a WNBA game this year are 1 in 168.2. And the odds he'll do so willingly are 1 in no freaking way. — Steve Hofstetter, National Lampoon "Sports Minute" • Breast Cancer Launches WNBA Awareness Month. — The Onion  • WNBA Franchise Moving to Tulsa Sounds About Right. — The Onion • New "Girls Gone Wild" DVD to Feature WNBA's Sexiest Hard Fouls. — Sportspickle.com • Flat-Chested Sorenstam only a perky set of C cups away from Superstardom — Sportspickle.com • “The mere concept of the WNBA is inherently flawed, like someone opening an inferior pizza place right next to the best pizza place in town, then using female chefs as a marketing hook. Who cares? It's still subpar pizza, right?” — Bill Simmons, ESPN’s “Sports Guy.” ” Dyin'  here boss.