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06-13-2019, 04:34 AM | #14 |
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Re: Women's World Cup - a bit of griping
Did you see the game? I will say again that I know few people who had issue with scoring. Even fewer with celebrating. But at some point, considering the vast imbalance of skills, many are uncomfortable with the kind of celebrating that happened towards the end of the second half. I have never felt this way before...ever.
And yes, we possibly disagree about the definition of sportsmanship and in the abstract that would be nothing. But taking this back to some of the politics (not Dem/Rep politics that I oppose being in sports, but the pay equity issues), the last thing the US Women's Soccer Team needs is even a faction of their own country men and women thinking they acted like entitled, spoiled brats on the world stage. As is often heard in this house, 'most things are cultural' and the if the argument is going to be 'you non-athletes just don't understand our culture' then the result is that parts of the bigger culture that it exists in is going to step back from firm support of their issues.
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