Wednesday Wisdom: Megan Rapinoe Edition

Have I told you lately, that I adore the US Women's National Team, and particularly Megan Rapinoe?

Q: “Are you excited about going to the White House?”

Megan Rapinoe: “I’m not going to the fucking White House.”pic.twitter.com/OosAQMjYsh

— Erick Fernandez (@ErickFernandez) June 25, 2019

It's beginning to make a lot of sense, so to speak, as to why the press and pundits had to have a National Conversation about whether the US team members were acting in a manner unbecoming of lady sportswomen in the World Cup recently, when the team kept celebrating after scoring "too many" goals in a game in which the point is to score goals, in the sport's biggest tournament.

Male sportswriters scolding women for being good at sports is a worse look. https://t.co/jlU2i1ybSQ

— Fannie Wolfe 🌈 (@fanniesroom) June 15, 2019

The performance of commentators expressing concern about women's behavior, it seems to me, is often rooted in a misogynistic desire to humiliate women just as they're reaching the height of their success and, perhaps the bigger sin, power.

Good for Megan Rapino.

I reckon if more people in mainstream punditry had her courage, our country would be in much better shape.