When Equal isn’t good enough. Judge rules on U.S. Soccer pay issue noting that women’s national team rejected offer to be paid under the same pay-for-play model as the men, instead opting for more guaranteed money.

FastFourierTerraform · 2020-05-02T15:19:16+00:00

I wonder if Megan Rapinoe sues the casino for gender discrimination when she decides not to play roulette, but then when black comes up she totally would have picked black. After all, some men chose black and won money. (Casually ignoring the men who bet red, as all feminists do).

RyansPutter · 2020-05-02T17:53:55+00:00

Not to mention the fact that the women also get benefits, whereas the men only get paid. All of the men play for the MLS or a European league, so they opted just to get paid. The women don't have big contracts with leagues, so they opted for more stability.

Deathbysugar2020 · 2020-05-02T18:59:57+00:00

Directly from the article:

The men’s team is paid for individual performances in a pay-for-play model, while the women opted for a pay structure that includes more security in the form of negotiated annual salaries, maternity and child-care benefits, and severance pay when they are no longer on the team.

NulloK · 2020-05-02T15:51:41+00:00

https://www.cbssports.com/soccer/news/a-dallas-fc-under-15-boys-squad-beat-the-u-s-womens-national-team-in-a-scrimmage/

jsu718 · 2020-05-02T18:45:57+00:00

They are already getting paid a larger percentage of the revenue. If they had truly equal pay, they would get even less.

jeff_the_nurse · 2020-05-02T15:01:23+00:00

Translation: those who bring in less to a business will not make as much as those who bring in more.

MordecaiTMM · 2020-05-02T15:36:34+00:00

Male soccer players make next to nothing, and the female team cost their owners $1m the year they Won, getting paid entirely out of pocket and not profits.

They could all be naked, and people would stop tuning in to the novelty sooner or later.

a_posh_trophy · 2020-05-02T17:44:44+00:00

This is the equivalent of an extra asking to get the same pay as Bad Pitt because they had a few scenes with him in the same film.

asdf333aza · 2020-05-02T17:09:15+00:00

I not familiar with soccer, but I like to think of it as them being in two different leagues. The males get better pay because they are the best at their sport. Their level of athleticism is higher. As such they probably bring in more revenue and viewers. The females are the best for females. The males are the best overall and top of the species. Like I said, I don't know much about soccer. However, if you take a men's NBA team and put it against a WNBA team, the NBA team would stomp them. I assume similar results would come from an USMNT vs a USWNT. There's a huge difference in being the best girl versus just being the best. And being the best overall is going to bring in more business and earn more money than just being the best females.

I_stole_this_phone · 2020-05-02T19:37:13+00:00

Shocking discovery everyone. Men like watching men play sports and women like watching men play sports. I watch women sports when i know a player personally.

BN91 · 2020-05-02T21:10:44+00:00

Do they seriously not see that it's not about gender? Or are they choosing to act like they dont understand that?

jl05419 · 2020-05-02T16:48:45+00:00

Football as all sports is just a show, the better the show the more you get paid. Just see how big is the diference on salari between messi or ronaldo to any less famous football player. At the end it doesn't matter how many hour you train every day it only matters how many people will pay to see you playing. Taking in count than in sports men usually(almost allways) have a higher level people will just go and see them because is more entretaining. I can understand to some extend(the league makes enough to pay it)complaining about been payed less that the minimum wage but all above that you have to earn it.

rborens · 2020-05-02T20:20:38+00:00

Anyone have the text so I don't need to support the wapo?

rabel111 · 2020-05-03T05:00:01+00:00

Sounds like a good logical decision. How long until they find a democrat superior court willing to overturn logic and law for the sake of feminist approval.

MordecaiTMM · 2020-05-03T07:50:27+00:00

They negotiated their own pay and then cried after they won because they should have been paid better the whole time somehow..

With any luck, this is the end of women's soccer..

ChaosOpen · 2020-05-02T19:08:16+00:00

Anyone have a link to the article that doesn't require a paid subscription to read?

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