I'm very interested in the Women's National Soccer Team's fight with the United States Soccer Federation – I think I got all those names right.
But probably not for the reasons you think. I have no dog in this fight. Let them make as much money as they want. And let them lose as much money as they want negotiating badly.
There is an angle of this discussion I see people avoiding – so, fuck it. My audience is small enough. I don't have a platform from which to be Canceled. There is a direct correlation between a college education and ideological – i.e. Conservative – thinking and behavior, specifically in females. College is where outdated, bad solutions to made-up problems are pressure-cooked into the brains of young people in the US. An example of such an idea is that there's a wage gap between men and women.
I'm not here to tell you there's not – there's not; the math is not subjective – but you and your opinion are incapable of being objective. This is one of those “hot button issues” that people think they have to have an opinion about, now. And the thing about opinions (besides just that they're like assholes: everyone has one and yours probably stinks) is that they are, by definition, subjective.
Well, I don't care what happened, but I'm curious. So I've been following Nate the Lawyer on YouTube as he covers the Lawsuit between the WNST and their Federation. So when Alex Morgan is arguing that they aren't willing to take less money to actually be paid equally with the men, I had a few thoughts.
Before I pursued those thoughts, I wanted to be sure of a couple things. The first was that you understand that these women believe – not so much what they're saying – as what they've been told. They think they're Crusaders. They think they're out there fighting the good fight. The Women's Soccer Team has always been about women proving they can be just as good as the men – that they can be better than the men. And you heard Alex Morgan make that argument: that they had to work harder to get where they are.
It seems pretty obvious to me that these women have been confused, misinformed, and propagandized to believe an untruth about the world, and are being used to spread it. So I got to wondering: are these women college educated?
According to This CampusExplorer.com article I found, because that's how hard I was willing (or needed) to look, The US Women's Soccer team is the exception to the professional soccer rule. Rather than having few to no college attendees on the roster, they have had several. As of 2011, Abby Wombach, Hope Solo, Megan Rapinoe, and Mia Hamm were all college educated. Hm. Megan Rapinoe's propagandist speeches and publicly gay personality make me wonder whether she doesn't still have the life experience of a demonstrative 20-something – the kind of person who thinks that painting their hair pink and living out a publicly gay lifestyle is either impactful or interesting. The kind of person who thinks growing an afro and kneeling at the 50-yard line of a football game is how you protest police brutality.
It's almost like athletes are emotional and don't have the time necessary to really dive into the nuances of social politics and protest.
I probably sound annoyed with these women. I have some difficult truths to share with them. But in all honesty I feel about them the way I felt when my younger sisters would say something ignorant as little girls: kind of like laughing at them a little bit. Let me explain. The college-educated female is a particular kind of female in the US of A. She's the kind of girl who does as she's told. Specifically as her teachers tell her.
See, college-educated females in the US have been told since the time that they are little girls that the world is full of mean, hateful males that are going to steal everything they have, they're going to take their bodies, and they're going to imprison them behind stoves and to bedposts. A statement which at no time in history has ever been true of any group of women, and has never been individually entered to unwillingly or unwittingly. Young girls are bombarded with fairy tales and fantasy versions of reality from the day they are born.
It's a lot of why so-called Liberal college-educated women are so resentful – of everything and everyone.
It's also why college-educated women make up the majority of the voter base for the Conservative political parties in the world.
Humans are concerned primarily with ourselves, our safety, our satisfaction; when that is achieved, we worry about the humans that have come out of our bodies – or which we have biochemically convinced ourselves make up that class; and then we care for the humans who are close to and look most like us – with a nearest-proximity prioritization. Mathematically it can be written Self > Offspring > Family Unit > Neighborhood > Society > Civilization.
In our conception of the Social Contract, we've kind of written this to be backward, right? A person's duties are in the inverse order or prioritization – probably because the thinking is that the push-pull of the two extremes of concern and duty should average out somewhere around your interest in your immediate neighborhood making the whole world a good place to live in. This is kind of the entire worldview of the Guilty Bourgeoise summed up in one sentence.
The Conservative worldview, however, skews this. They preach a duty and dedication in the order I speak while living a duty to one's self and one's self interests above all things. This is the assumption that makes up the backbone of American – and now Global – economics: The human being is in actuality, not just in theory motivated first by his own needs; and, in fact, the duties to one's society and civilization at large are irrelevant. This is, kind of, if I understand it, the entire basis of the Post-Modernism movement: a shift toward total Satanism of philosophy – complete Egotism.
Conservatism says it was better how it was, how it has always been, with the same kinds of people who have always been in power.
It is little wonder, then, that college-educated women, read: the scaredest of the world's scared little girls, those little girls with the most teachers' most favorite fairy tales in their heads, marry Republicans (but vote Democrat when it serves them), vote against the interests of their neighborhoods, their societies, and their civilizations, and raise boys to be the boogeymen they were so afraid of as girls.
This is human nature, baby.
And it's human nature to want to be paid more than you're worth.
I started all this trying to translocate the three issues that are going to collide with one another in the minds of the women involved with the WNST right now. I would correct that or addend that to include the men, but the men already figured it out when this new contract raised their pay in favor of cutting the women's. Equal pay! Hell yeah, we want to be paid more when it turns out we make less!
Then I got lost in the weeds.
The first issue here is the issue of Fair Pay. It's simpler than just “Women make less money than men per person-hour of labor.” It really is. Men have advantages that women lack in the workplace because men are willing to make sacrifices that women are not. It's that simple. Frankly, every job I've ever had, women are at the top of the immediate social and managerial hierarchies, and they all hate one another as much as they hate the men. The women who are at the very top of the corporate payscale are indistinguishable from the men in their behavior. And there are men just as there are women who will not imitate them.
The problem here is that if the Women's Soccer Team bites and refuses to play for the pay they're offered, they have to return to the NWSL – which no one watches, and is managed by the USSF. So. They can get fucked coming, or they can get fucked going – but now they're going to get fucked harder because they tried to make their employer look bad.
So they have the issue that this is significantly more complicated than they were led to believe; then they have to contend at some point with the Snaketongues whispering in their ears behind the scenes; and then they're going to have to confront the very real reality that faces every professional who relies on employment: No one gets paid what they're worth. For a variety of reasons.
And now the people who control your paycheck don't like you anymore.
Can Megan Rapinoe's celebrity keep her employed? Or is the pink hair and the Met Gala her way of announcing that she's retiring and going to be living on commission to the highest bidder who wants a professional athlete as their mouthpiece?
Cus that's what it looks like to me.
I can't end there.
I feel bad for Alex Morgan, et al. Flamethrower of a take or not.
I think we all root for these women to get paid – I think even the Men's team rooted for them until they saw how much more money the women were actually making – because none of us is paid what we're worth. None of us is paid what we're worth because all of us are owned by someone. There's about seven people in the world who own it among them.
Your house? Belongs to them. This Surface 7 I'm writing this on – belongs to them.
The money that you are paid with belongs to them.
That's what I can't get about the whole BitCoin thing – but I don't have the space or the emotional energy to get into that, here.
Nothing belongs to any of us but our thoughts.
Where are you getting yours from?
How much of what you believe was taught to you, and how much of it did you observe for yourself?
My father taught me to be arrogant. And I want to be arrogant. I set myself back a full decade of my life because I refused to be told what to think – by anyone – at any time. Put myself more than a decade back, in some terms. Less than that in others. But I'm learning, I think, each time I sit down to write these that maybe that decade taught me something.
I don't know what. Maybe I'll figure it out by talking to myself like this. Or maybe you will. Whatever the case, thank you for sticking around as this one went a little long today – and veered maybe a little too close to my football blog. Either way, thank you. It's nice not to feel so alone.
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