Serious NWSL fan here.  You guys know you don’t have to wait every four years to get excited about/watch women’s soccer, right?

Yeah, I don’t think France is just going to roll over in Paris on Friday in front of the home crowd.  May well be the end of the line.

I do kind of wonder if it’s not good for the sport if we take the title again.  Then again, better us than the Germans again.

The North American pro league, NWSL, doesn’t have a national television setup at the moment, but they stream all the games for free on Yahoo.  Not sure what the situation is in the UK.

The team that scored was not the one that had been looking the most threatening.  Like, if England is playing Japan, and Japan has the ball most of the time up in England’s box, and then England counters and scores, that’s the kind of scenario being talked about.

So what exactly would you have had him do about a Congress that included segregationists? He can’t wish them away, so if he doesn’t have the votes to work around them, he has to work through them, negotiate and trade favors as necessary.  His options in a representative democracy are limited by design. This is a…

Zeus was kind of the original #metoo offender, so maybe not a great example

Right?  If you’re not sure they want to be touched, don’t put the arm up at all, but the hoverhand is maximum overdweeb.

I don’t know, man. This reminds me of the pictures from when a female friend had me take her to prom back in high school in lieu of her having an actual date. Like, the “hoverhand” I would associate more with plain old social awkwardness. If they don’t want you to touch them, why do any hand thing at all? Why not just…

I’ve got some issues with all these bullet points. Re: 3: you realize there’s pop out there that isn’t emotionally positive stuff, that’s more on the darker side, right? Taylor Swift is pop, but so is Depeche Mode.

Re 2: The queer origins thing applies pretty straightforwardly to a handful of varieties of synthpop, and…

Man, this is really eye opening for me, this thread. I’ve been battling depression for years, but it’s epidemic in my mother’s family, so everyone gets what you’re talking about, even when people talk around it, refer to it obliquely. I can say shit about it to my mom or sister that would seriously alarm or panic my…

Yeah, so she’s playing against women who weren’t alive when she started coming to WWCs. Wow.

I think she’ll probably make the record, if not here, then because I don’t see anyone coming along next cycle that can replace her.  Even at 40, I think the only way she’s not on the team in 2023 is if she doesn’t want to be.

There’s indeed a lot we don’t know here.

No, the article says that’s what Lorne implied to Chris.  That’s not the same thing.

Joanna “Jojo” Levesque has traditionally performed as a brunette.

Yeah, Midwesterner here.  Only one way to get good seafood.

As they say on the 4chan, alpha as fuck

Your political angle is not without merit, but they made really solid pop music.

I don’t know about that. I mean, I think the crowd involvement is generally part of the point of live music. I can hear the album version at home any time, you know?

Same thing with sporting events. I was just at the US women vs Mexico game in Jersey last weekend after having seen them play a couple times elsewhere,…