Is the stance on the national anthem tied to the equal pay issue?
It seems that way, only Rapinoe would fit the role of an activist, the rest are just out there trying to get equal pay to men’s sports and painting themselves in the same light as a women’s white collar worker who is underpaid in comparison to her male counterpart (which is wrong and I agree with it being wrong).
They are equating pay to success in terms of winning when the reality in sports is winning does not bring pay in comparison to positive advertising eyeballs.
The irony of the whole situation is that women are largely to blame for the revenue gap. If women watched women’s sports the way men watch men’s sports, the money would be there.
Here we go with the "virtue-signalling" hypocrisy again.
Again, whatever victory they claimed is based solely on the men conceding because the men frankly don’t care about national team salary anywhere near as much. FIFA still rewards US Soccer less for a Women’s World Cup win than they would for a Men’s World Cup win, how US Soccer splits the winnings is up to them and with the support of the men’s CBA they make sure all of the men and women are compensated equally. If the men say “eff that, if we win it all we want all of the men’s winnings” then this agreement blows up. This won’t happen because the men are making their bones in the club game, and playing for country at the World Cup is more of a privilege than a money maker, they also don’t want the PR headache. They also know there is basically no chance of winning the Men’s World Cup and if it happened their off field opportunities would make up for any shortfall from prize money. On the women’s side, the national team is more like a club than the men’s side, hence why the A team usually plays friendlies where the men’s team typically gives new faces a look during a friendly. Generally if you are not on the USWNT you are not doing well financially as a pro women’s soccer player, so the women’s players are more inclined to fight for every last bit of national team money. That is well within their rights, but the way they have gone about it is simply embarrassing.
Ah. My sarcasm meter was turned off.Oh, they ARE? Well that explains a lot.
i would tell you, but i haven't watched a single min of germany's matches. but, this type of thing happens in tournaments all the time. The German men's side got dumped out of the world cup in the group stage last year, as did Belgium.
They're too busy making signs to protest the USWNT protests to notice any soccer results.
Lamb chop lovers, those sociopathic baby killers, should be sent to prison for their insane dietary crimes.
Honestly, isn’t just the opposite?
Representing the country and playing soccer is actually what I've been seeing...however, the fact that they're not all singing or putting a hand over their chest, like numerous athletes in every other sport, seems to trigger some. What protests have you seen out there over the past two weeks? Or was the Dream Team staging a silent protest that we never heard about?
When only 3 of 11 sing and less than half have their hands over their heart they’re doing something for some reason.
Here is a great video of the greatest basketball team of all time basking in their glory and hearing their national anthem...only one guy is singing. How has it been 31 years and no one has gotten to the bottom of what they were protesting?
I have no idea what the team is protesting. Or even if they are protesting anything. I'm inferring a bit from the outraged posts in the thread.
Back in the day she would have been on the front of the Wheaties box!
You are beyond ridiculously ignorant. They are there to represent their country if they are not there to represent their country they should NOT be on the team. It is a PRIVILEDGE not a right. If you want to represent your agenda there are plenty of other countries in the world to live....Ask Brittany Griner how that worked out for her.
Others need to get some pointers from her then…best player at the last World Cup, and wasn’t even there to play soccer!
I’m simply trying to understand how we can draw the conclusion that only 3 of 11 women singing was an obvious protest, while not drawing the same conclusion when only 1 of the 12 men was singing.
Isn't a protest actually a perfect representation of the freedoms our country affords?
Let it go. It’s a topic that has been lamely and pointlessly “debated” to absolutely no effect at least a half dozen times on the CE forum.Here we go with the "virtue-signalling" hypocrisy again.
When it's someone else making some point you disagree with, they are virtue-signalling and it's bad.
When you (anybody using the term "virtue signalling") has a point to make, it's also virtue signalling but it's somehow the good kind.
Virtue signalling about virtue signalling is inescapably hypocritical and self-defeating.
I would tell people (on both sides) to wake up and realize how they're being manipulated, by their echo chamber, into looking ridiculous by repetitively regurgitating these sorts of populist sarcastic expressions. But then those very same people would accuse me of being "woke", which is yet another obvious case of self-defeating hypocrisy posing as sarcasm.
My concern being that the sheer depth and breath of the resulting irony of them saying I'm woke might cause a tear in the fabric of the space-time continuum. I just can't risk it.
So fine. Stay asleep, unvirtuous, and manipulated. See if I care.
Rapinoe made a comment several years ago, but I don’t recall others commenting on it…can you link to the quotes where they confirmed they are protesting the anthem during the World Cup? Thanks.
