Now I'm a NOW girl

Did you know that last year's women's Wimbledon champion made about $60,000 less in prize money than the dude who won the men's championship? And that just today, Feb. 22, 2007 (see above for verification), the English snobs who run the most prestigous tennis tournament in the world decided to give this year's female champion as much as the man. Just today, in a country that beat us to electing a woman to the highest office in the land by more than 25 years so far. I can't believe Venus and Serena didn't lead a boycott years ago.

There appear to be logical reasons for the difference — the main claim is that men play for the best of five sets and women only three. But women aren't incapable of playing five rounds. The English snobs simply don't allow it. Players with breasts, such as Venus and Serena, have raked in tons of cash, further popularized the sport and upped the tournament's television ratings. Plus, none of them have gone all Britney and shaved their heads. Anyone who thinks Roger Federer is sexier than Maria Sharapova should raise their hand right now.

And lest there be any confusion over whether the discrepancy was sexist until today, let us here from Tommy Haas, a German player who is currently ranked ninth in the world and said girl tennis players are great and all, but:

"I think the depth of men’s tennis is much tougher than the women’s," he told The New York Times.

Well, Haas, I think you're an outrage. Feel free to send him hate mail.