Women athletes do not deserve to be paid as much as their male counterparts.
Except when they do.
And the U.S. women's national soccer team is one such exception.
What the five members of the USWNT did by filing a federal complaint charging U.S. Soccer with wage discrimination was ask for no more double standards. This seems so basic as to not need fighting for, yet here we are.
In a week where a frontrunner for President of the United States talked of punishing women who had abortions and not too far away from that Indian Hills jackass saying players like Serena Williams needed to get on her knees and thank goodness the men’s game carries the day, I guess I should not be surprised that a group of women has to make the argument that “um, excuse us but we are the driving economic force of U.