So like UFC is attempting to do with Brock Lesnar or EXC with Kimbo Slice? Like that?

There’s a certain something to be said about marketability of fighters and the ability to make a profit in the mma business.

Gina Carano is no different, so to criticize them for this when it’s merely one of the many things they’re pushing is retarded.

In both cases they’re just added attractions on cards, both which have provided pretty entertaining fights. Pyle was someone who was heavily touted prior to his IFL losses. With this loss to Shields, and his 3-3 record in his last 6 fights, does he really expect a promotion is going to push him to the moon?

Regardless of his record, he was still put into a title shot. If he would’ve beaten Shields, EXC would’ve had no choice but to build part of their promotion around him.

Why Gina Carano gets promoted as a star is a fair topic for discussion. Nobody here objects to that, in fact, discussions happen all the time, debating why companies promote certain fighters and not others. So, again, it’s perfectly fair to debate why Carano gets promoted over fighters like Mike Pyle. And there is plenty of merit to the argument that her stardom is a sexist strategy by Elite XC to sexually exploit her for male consumption.

(Unfortunately, disgusting jokes by people like Maura Ranallo support the theory. I like the guy and I was genuinely disappointed by his juvenile sexism. I hope he’s sorry because comments like that really set back the cause of female fighters trying to gain respect and acceptance in this sport.)

What’s not acceptable is the blatant sexism of Pyle’s statement, for which he deserves all the ridicule he’s gotten and more. He doesn’t make a reasoned argument about promotional strategies, he just comes off as an ape whose macho ego is hurt because a woman is above him.

Then you have guys like Columbia Lou who is far worse than Pyle. Maybe Pyle is uneducated or too dumb to understand the sexism of his own remarks; and maybe we can cut him some slack for being emotional because he is personally invested in the situation. Lou, in contrast, is a pure sexist, who is clearly educated enough to understand the issue (even if his understanding is warped) and is actively promoting sexism. He didn’t say “Cut Pyle some slack” – he said Pyle’s remarks actually increased his respect for the guy. And he prefaced it by objecting to the concept of sexism itself.

Hey Lou, let’s hear your objection to the concept of racism – isn’t it just Marxism applied to races? Wouldn’t you love to take us back to an era before we had an awareness of sexism and racism? *spit*

Pyle’s complaint that Carrano, basically being used as a sideshow attraction, is being pushed ahead of male MMA fighters has merit. It is typical Gary Shaw promotion.

The above comments by Columbia Lou have merit as well. Social ideals are like a pendulum that swings back and forth until it settles at ‘just about right’. In a reaction to millennia of truly horrible treatment women, the pendulum has swung far over to the other side. Too far, in fact, but it will move back to the center eventually.

The slams of Columbia Lou that I am reading above are what I would expect to hear: emotional, rash, and without much rational thought. Decrying someone as sexist, racist, etc. is an easy way to attempt to marginalize points of view you don’t like or haven’t taken the time or effort to understand, all through the glorious power of demagoguery.

Thankfully people like you are an endangered species in the civilized world. Hopefully the last remnants of your kind will also disappear soon.

You will happily find a home for yourself in Saudi Arabia or some similarly medieval society that hasn’t yet been afflicted with Marxist ideologies like anti-sexism.