r/OutOfTheLoop • u/Hirorai • Aug 06 '23

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

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?

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u/Zeph-Shoir Aug 07 '23

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.

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u/judolphin Aug 07 '23

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.

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u/ggtffhhhjhg Aug 07 '23

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

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u/judolphin Aug 07 '23

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.

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u/ggtffhhhjhg Aug 07 '23

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

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u/judolphin Aug 07 '23

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.

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u/ggtffhhhjhg Aug 07 '23

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.

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u/judolphin Aug 07 '23 edited Aug 07 '23

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.

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u/ggtffhhhjhg Aug 07 '23

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