Which is why the “equal play” effort was truly misguided. They made the men the enemy in the early discussions, when it didn’t need to be that way.

So they’re a top 15 or 20-ish team, give or take, based on their success making it to the knockout stage over the last couple decades. There are 211 countries vying for World Cup spots. That puts them in the top 10%. Doesn’t really meet the definition for “middling” within the frame of reference of international…

The men’s team receives a cut of MEN’S WC profit, the women receive a cut of Women’s WC. one pie is just much larger

They should hold out for the most money they can get, but in the end they are hamstrung by the realities of their sport and the revenues. Salaries in the MLB dwarf those in the NBA and especially NFL. Somebody like LeBron James should obviously make the most money of any American athlete, but just depends on the…

The men’s games appear to significantly outdraw the women’s in terms of viewership, though this site would argue otherwise. The pay difference is certainly drastic, but capitalism pays for performance, which is measured in dollars not wins.

Do you think the WNBA champions should also be paid more than the New Jersey nets players ?

This argument is both comical and uninformed.

The ones writing the check maybe?

Ummm, base salary for the USMNT is $0.

People who understand economics, and who understand that comparing the two based on their ability relative to their competition is stupid.

The people paying them probably do, given that’s where the money to pay them with comes from.

Equal pay why? Do they generate equal revenues? If yes, then fine. If no, then you’re a bloody communist.

Here’s a crazy idea for you: take a persuasive writing or speaking class and let me know when they cover, “insulting your target audience.”

Because having an honest and open conversation doesn’t work when people are trying to silence people who disagree with them.

I said it to someone else in this thread, so now I’ll direct it back towards you:

Yeah - pretty much doing it again - thanks for that.

When you condescend as a tool of explaining your point of view, you effectively shut down the conversation. This includes, but isn’t limited to, the wage gap.

I mean, the thing is that this is an issue where there are legitimate disagreements about methodology and conclusions. It’s very hard to do sound social science on these topics. Reasonable people can reasonably disagree about the size and sources of the wage gap. But as soon as you accuse anyone who thinks the gap is…

This feels really icky and exploitative regardless of his other work. Sorry. And, there is really no way to tell if it was this or something else on the application that got him accepted, and it’s many times more likely that it was something else.

Activism needs boots on the ground not hashtags and fb profile pictures. Hastags are fine but if that is all you got you insult everyone who really did something for civil rights.