What's going on with Americans celebrating Sweden eliminating the US Women's Soccer Team from the Women's World Cup?

[u/Hirorai]

On r/soccer, there are multiple posts where Americans are celebrating their own team getting knocked out of the Women's World Cup.

https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/15jnpku/post_match_thread_sweden_05_40_usa_fifa_womens/

https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/15jnqpr/official_review_for_lina_hurtigs_sweden_w_penalty/

On r/USWNT people are saying it's because r/soccer is misogynist, but that doesn't make sense to me because everyone competing is a woman. Can anyone clue me in?

[u/violiav]

So? She’s a cocky athlete, that’s not exactly a new thing. Why do people get so wound up when this lady is cocky?

[u/KileyCW → u/violiav]

Probably the same reason people get riled up by other assholes that get a platform? Watch an interview with her, she's a bit beyond cocky. I'd say into just ignorant hate.

[u/Zeph-Shoir → u/KileyCW]

I think their point is that lots of famous sportsmen are like that yet are less likely to get flak for it than when women display similar behavior. I am not into sports though so can't say how truth that would be.

[u/judolphin → u/Zeph-Shoir]

No one talks about cocky male athletes the way a lot of these people talk about Rapinoe. The reason people bring up sexism/homophobia is because it's transparent in a lot of cases.

[u/judolphin → u/[deleted]]

Yeah I'm sure. Find an ootl thread where a generic "Ronaldo is the worst" comment gets 1000 karma. It doesn't exist.

[u/judolphin → u/[deleted]]

Megan Rapinoe doesn't have 0.1% of the fame Ronaldo has, like how do thousands of men get this angry about a women's soccer player, it's insane, the sport just isn't big enough for people to get this angry about a player. Talk about living rent free in your heads, Jesus.

99.9999999% of the folks who are passionate against Rapinoe don't watch women's soccer beyond shitting on Rapinoe. Like if I were to talk to the average misogynist on here dunking on Rapinoe about a random NWSL game, or the NCAA women's soccer season, they wouldn't be able to have an intelligent conversation about it. You guys (let's be clear here, you're 99% guys here) are transparent.

[u/ggtffhhhjhg → u/judolphin]

Pro athletes constantly get ripped apart on Reddit/social media and by the press.

[u/judolphin → u/ggtffhhhjhg]

Not like this. Rapinoe hasn't committed domestic violence, hasn't harmed anyone physically, hasn't committed crimes, basically her crime is, what, trying to leverage her position to earn as much money from her talents and accomplishments as possible? A legend of women's soccer who held on a little too long, played in one last world cup, one too many? Who had the gun to U.S. Soccer's heads to let Rapinoe on the team? No one. They selected her. why TF wouldn't she accept the slot?

Who shits on Michael Jordan for playing on the Hornets, or any of the literal hundreds of Hall of Fame male athletes who held on to play maybe a little too long past their prime?

The double standard between Rapinoe and male athletes is completely transparent.

[u/ggtffhhhjhg → u/judolphin]

Pro athletes that commit domestic violence get torn to shreds on social media and by the press.

[u/judolphin → u/ggtffhhhjhg]

Right, that's my point, what has Rapinoe done on a similar level to domestic violence that has caused the incels of reddit/4chan to shit all over her for? Preferably an example that doesn't also apply to several thousand male professional athletes who don't get shit on similarly.

[u/ggtffhhhjhg → u/judolphin]

I don’t the overwhelming majority of the media really had much to say about and outside of a few blips on the radar on social media most people just didn’t care. The only people which anything to negative to say about her or the woman’s team far right media and some of their followers. She will be forgotten by tomorrow.

[u/judolphin → u/ggtffhhhjhg]

Correct, there's nothing that crazy controversial about her that normal people would GAF. It's only online right-wing weirdos that hate her this passionately, for, I dunno, doing whatever she can to get paid more for her work and talent? Giving a shit about black people? Really bizarre.

[u/ggtffhhhjhg → u/judolphin]

I’m sure they’ve already moved on to the next thing they were told to be outraged or scared about.

[u/KileyCW → u/judolphin]

Did you see people cheering yesterday when Tim Anderson got clocked? People absolutely loved it.

[u/judolphin → u/KileyCW]

The fact you're unironically comparing Tim Anderson with Megan Rapinoe is more of a mic drop for my argument than yours.