Power and Domination in the National Women's Soccer League
Sometimes, you just want someone to tell you what to do.
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Sometimes, you just want someone to tell you what to do.
When chants of ‘equal pay!’ ring through soccer stadiums, men jump on Twitter to explain why, despite performing better internationally than the men’s team, women soccer players don’t deserve equal pay because they don’t earn as much revenue.
I did a lightning talk at AdaCamp called "how to hit a softball". This talk was born of frustration: the only activity I participate in which is less gender-diverse than open source software is softball. I've played in games where I'm the only woman on either side, out of 20+ people.
My good friend, a theater professor, is interested in sports as performance, but isn't too familiar with most sports. I collected the following links to send to her, and thought I'd share them here as well:
On the road back from Thanksgiving, my dad and my sister's boyfriend Alex were discussing the NBA lockout (which was just resolved yesterday.)
There's a thing I like to do, whenever someone says something is "like riding a bicycle".
I went home last weekend, and I was excited for a chance to snuggle my cat, cook with my mom, and engage in the endless after dinner conversations my family manages so frequently to have \-- you know, the kind where your butt gets sore from sitting still and you go for thirds and then fourths because you've just had that much time to digest, but you can't quite bring yourself to say, "Okay, that's enough dissecting of Dr. Who/Beatles' rockband/the decline of rationality in modern political thought."