Every year, the ESPN hosts its annual ESPY Awards ceremony. One of the awards is the Arthur Ashe Courage Award, which is given to a “member or group in the sporting world who makes a difference far beyond the field of play, impacting the world in indelible ways.”
This year, one athlete and one team were among those considered for the award. The athlete risked his life to save others. The team complained they weren’t getting enough money.
Seems like the first guy should get the award right? After all, Peyton Hillis saved his son and niece from drowning in a rip tide off the coast of Pensacola, Florida earlier this month. He was hospitalized for two weeks, with doctors saying it was miraculous that Hillis didn’t die himself.
That takes a lot of courage. And yet, Hillis lost the award to a team whose claim to fame is complaining that they deserved to get more money.
Who is this mystery team? The Megan Rapinoe-led, America-hating U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team (USWNT).
These entitled progressive activists who play soccer as a side gig got the United States Soccer Federation (USSF) to force the men’s national team to split any future prize money won at international tournaments with them. It’s a big blow for the USMNT, considering their prize money dwarfs what the women earn at tournaments.
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The USWNT’s whole argument for wanting a share of what the men earn was that the teams weren’t paid equally from prize money at these events, since the women's team historically being the more internationally successful one. This disparity in earnings makes sense, seeing as men’s soccer generates far more revenue than women’s soccer, and thus makes the earning higher.
But if you put that logic aside and reframe the USWNT’s as a step in equal rights for women, then of course a liberal sports organization would give them the award.
But wait, there’s more! Not only has the USWNT been crying for a bigger pay day, they’ve also strongly advocated for men who think they're women being included in women’s sports. They were strong advocates of the Biden administration changing the language of Title IX to include transgendered females (biological men), despite experiencing firsthand how men almost always dominate women in athletic contests.
So a group of women who duped the American soccer world into thinking they weren’t treated fairly and who are advocating for the destruction of women’s sports are being given an award for courage over a guy who - in no uncertain terms - risked his life to save two children?
It shouldn’t make sense. It doesn't make sense. But with how this upside-down world operates, it's not surprising.
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