If women, who are simply not as good at soccer as men, want to make as much money as male soccer players, then women, collectively, must become so good at soccer as to produce a *greater market interest in women’s soccer*.
— Christopher DeGroot (@CEGrotius) July 8, 2019
With the result that they make as much money as male soccer players. If you want equal pay, perform equally. (I notice that fewer men than women seem to have trouble with this simple principle.)
— Christopher DeGroot (@CEGrotius) July 8, 2019
There is no a priori reason why the sexes, or the races, should perform equally in all domains, as if the world were not an endlessly diverse place, or as if it were answerable to people’s delusional moral sentiments.
— Christopher DeGroot (@CEGrotius) July 8, 2019
Almost everyone who read about this topic from mainstream press sources came away with the impression that the women’s teams were being treated unfairly in the World Cup despite the numbers clearly telling a different story. That’s a problem with the press, not discriminatory pay.
I shouldn’t be amazed, but somehow, as I see article after article repeating trendy nonsense about a gender pay gap in professional soccer, I manage to find a little bit of untarnished innocence deep down inside and say, “How can these hacks be so ignorant and/or dishonest?” Likewise, while watching the final yesterday, I heard the Nike “Dream with Us” commercial at halftime and was actually taken aback at the social-justice propagandizing. “Can you be the generation that ends gender inequality?” “Or will you show that champions in your sport can also look like you?” “What other maudlin, progressive, hashtag platitudes can we stick in here to make you gullible leftists forget all your reflexive, anti-corporate posturing and buy our athletic wear?” Aren’t they supposed to be at least a little subtle about it? Don’t people feel insulted by such blatant pandering? Will I ever become cynical enough to stop asking such rhetorical questions?