The U.S. Soccer Federation stated a fact in a legal brief. Then, when angry feminists such as Megan Rapinoe complained, the organization’s president, Carlos Cordeiro, profusely apologized for the truthful, yet apparently politically incorrect, language it used.
That’s right: You’re not allowed to tell the truth if feminists don’t like it.
What was the federation’s supposedly sexist crime? In the words of the United States Women’s National Team captain and star Megan Rapinoe, it was that in court filings regarding the lawsuit against the federation over “equal pay,” the federation used “blatant misogyny and sexism as the argument” against the women’s team. A spokeswoman representing the female players called the federation’s argument “plain simple sexism” and said that “it sounds as if it has been made by a cave man.”
Per the Washington Post, the passage in dispute here was a motion that read:
This is an objective fact. Facts cannot be sexist or bigoted.
Professional men’s soccer players are, on average, substantially stronger and faster than female players. The USWNT, while admirable in their success in the Women’s World Cup, competes at a far, far lower level of play than the top men’s international teams.
Heck, the world champion U.S. Women’s National Team lost badly to an under-15 team of teenage boys in a scrimmage. That’s right: The best female players got walloped in a match against a professional men’s youth academy team. Admittedly, the game was for fun, not for the formal record, but still, the result explains everything about the difference between men’s and women’s soccer.
For the U.S. Soccer Federation to say that the top levels of professional men’s soccer “requires a higher level of skill based on speed and strength” is not sexist or offensive; it is a fact. It is a stunning and disturbing testament to the profound and widespread fear political correctness causes in our society that outrage over such a benign statement would actually lead Cordeiro to cower and beg for forgiveness. (And what a stunning absence of spine he has demonstrated, much to the detriment of his sport.)
This is just the latest example of Rapinoe and her fellow left-wing feminists stirring up fake outrage and playing the victim despite their ridiculous levels of personal fame and privilege.
The funny part is that this entire controversy stems from an “equal pay” controversy that, quite frankly, is manufactured and devoid of any substantive basis. As Cordeiro explained:
That’s right: U.S. Soccer has actually paid the women more. Oops.
There is indeed a disparity in favor of the men’s World Cup in terms of prize money and rewards, but this is due to differences in viewership, not sexism. And these figures are determined by FIFA, not by U.S. Soccer, the entity which the women’s team is suing. All of this reveals that the whole controversy is much ado about nothing.
Of course, this is all par for the course for Rapinoe, who is far from a role model for young women. Sadly, liberals seem intent on continuing to glorify the privileged celebrity’s outrage-mongering and bending over backwards to accommodate it.
The result? Rapinoe’s exercises in fake victimhood won’t stop — at least, not until folks find their courage and stand up to this nonsense.
UPDATE: Carlos Cordeiro has now resigned.
