Now that the victory celebration is only an unsettling memory, it’s worth taking a look at the warped world view of the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team captain Megan Rapinoe and that of many of her teammates. Myopic, entitled and self-centered only begins to describe their personalities. 

Rapinoe is not just rude, annoying and actually kind of awful, she – and her cheerleaders in the mainstream media – are being thoroughly dishonest in their whining for “equal pay.” First of all they don’t draw the crowds or dollars in tournament play that the men’s soccer teams do ($131 million vs. $6 billion). Proportionally, they actually make more than the men; women’s prize pool was approximately 23 percent of their total revenue, while the men’s prize pool consisted of approximately 7 percent of revenue.
 
Furthermore, if they’re unhappy with their pay, the team needs to take it up with their union as John Hirschauer pointed out ~

It brings me great sorrow to report that wealthy women who are paid large sums of money to play a game are unhappy with the pay structure for which their union collectively bargained and to which they themselves voluntarily agreed […]
 
The process by which two parties settle a compensation dispute through arbitration and collective bargaining (rather than publicly play-acting as Freedom Riders and disrespecting the country on foreign soil) — “the right way to do it,” if you prefer — has already proven an effective means of improving team pay, if raising team pay is indeed the point.

 
Pay scale aside, what I found truly offensive was the self-absorbed attitude of Rapinoe and many of her teammates. Here they are, playing for a nation that offers more opportunities for women than any other country in history, and rather than celebrating America they drop the flag, applaud themselves and make it all about them.
 
And instead of using their celebrity for a worthy cause, they selfishly bemoan their salaries, claiming they’re victims of unequal pay – oblivious to true female victims in much of the rest of the world.
 
The freedom, affluence and health and generally safe environment that these soccer players enjoy in the west is in startling contrast to the living conditions of a majority of women in the rest of the world.
 

The Spring issue of Open Door’s Presence Magazine provided a glimpse into the oppression, exploitation, and physical and emotional abuse so many Christian women face today in locales the soccer team has probably never visited. I suspect these women wish their biggest complaint was “unequal pay.” Instead, many of them are facing ostracism, forced marriage, rape and other forms of sexual violence – or worse.
 
Women like a 60 year-old, never-married virgin in the middle east ~

When no one in her small Christian village saw Susan Grigor (or “Gregory”) on July 9, in Idlib, Syria, the worried priest sent parishioners to search for her. They eventually found her mangled and bloodied corpse on the ground of a field adjacent to her home.
 
The autopsy revealed that Susan had been repeatedly raped and tortured over the course of nine hours before finally being murdered by stoning.
 
The men responsible for this heinous act are believed to be members of the al-Qaeda-linked jihadi group, al-Nusra (elements of which the Obama administration referred to and supported as “freedom fighters”).

Source: Front Page Mag

In too many parts of the world, perpetrators of crimes like these are rarely brought to justice, so they continue to abuse women with impunity ~

Rape, other sexual assault, non-sexual violence and abduction are threats for women in many countries where Open Doors works. The most noted form of violence is rape. Pakistan is a sad example of a country that’s very unsafe for Christian women. Each year, around 700 Christian girls are seduced or kidnapped, raped, forcibly married and converted to Islam against their will.
 
That is nearly 3.5 Boeing 737s, full of young ladies robbed of their dreams, hopes and happiness.
 
These women are cut off from their families and church. They cannot raise their children as Christians.
 
And Pakistan is not the only country where this happens. For instance, in sub-Saharan Africa, terrorist organization Boko Haram still holds an estimated 2,500 Christian girls in captivity.

 
While the soccer players demand “equal pay,” the majority of women the world over are still considered second class citizens (Islamic Sharia law anyone?). For Christian women, the status is even lower. For example, as Presence relates ~

(I)n Iraq, many Christian men face job discrimination. They are pressured to quit, are held back from promotions or are unable to obtain certain jobs because of their faith. In the Horn of Africa, Christian men are targeted for their beliefs and tortured or martyred by radical Islamist militant groups. As horrible as these things are, though, men often may not experience significant persecution in their homes because they are viewed as the heads of their households.
 
But for women, home can be dangerous. It can be a place of fear and torture. Their second-class status is exploited as they possess little power to begin with—and when they accept Jesus while living in a home where that kind of conversion is seen as wrong, even that little power can be stripped away […]
 
Christian women are often also viewed as outcasts not worth protecting because of their faith. Attacks are targeted at their bodies through physical and/or sexual assault. They face the increased danger of being raped in communities where there are no laws to protect them or where the laws that do exist go unenforced.
 
In parts of South Asia, for instance, hundreds of Christian women and girls are kidnapped every year. Their experiences include rape and forced marriage. In Yemen, there are cases where daughters are married off by family members to Muslim men as a form of pressure to convert. Added to this are the countless heartbreaking stories of women from different countries who experience physical abuse by family members because of their decision to follow Christ.

So instead of selfishly demanding more money for their privileged selves, how about trying to improve the oppressive circumstances of their fellow women around the world? Like the president who Ms. Rapinoe curses is doing?

 
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