“In a joint statement, the U.S. Women’s National Team Players Association and U.S. Soccer Federation said they have “ratified a new collective bargaining agreement which will continue to build the women’s program in the U.S., grow the game of soccer worldwide and improve the professional lives of players on and off the field. We are proud of the hard work and commitment to thoughtful dialogue reflected through this process, and look forward to strengthening our partnership moving forward.”

In recent years, the players have raised issues about compensation and working conditions compared to their male counterparts, casting a shadow over the efforts of the most successful women’s team in soccer history and pitting the federation against wildly popular athletes, such as Carli Lloyd and Alex Morgan.

In March 2016, the players  filed a federal complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, charging the USSF with wage discrimination. The case remains active.

Financial specifics were not immediately available, but people with knowledge of the pact said it includes:

Also, in a key gain, the players’ association will now control group likeness rights for licensing and nonexclusive rights in sponsorship categories where USSF does not have an agreement.”  

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Loving that OKC gives you a check box for “I don’t want to see or be seen by straight people” but where’s my check box for “I don’t want to see or be seen by gay people”???

have you tried christianmingle? what about republicanpassions.com?

It's not a completely ridiculous question, all things being equal. Except all things AREN'T equal--I guarantee you, the "no straight views" button was added specifically so that straight men would stop harassing gay women for dates. There's no need for the other way around, because gay women aren't harassing straight men for dates. 

Actually, I'm pretty sure nobody's harassing straight men for dates. 

I hate it when white women like to act like they’re not white when they claim to be Jewish. Ummm, you’re white, and being Jewish doesn’t hide your white privilege, it actually makes you more privilege. Being Jewish doesn’t make you a Women of Colour when most Jews are BEYOND white passing.  Jews in the United States and Europe are FAR overrepresented in banking, the media, the justice system, government, ect. Jews also played a huge role in the slave trade where most of the slave ships were Jewish owned. If anything being Jewish is a privilege which has historically and still is favoring their own and benefiting off the struggles of People of Colour which has aided white supremacy. If you’re jewish and want to aid people of colour in their struggles and rape, check your privilege and call out people you know for their racism, sexism, misogyny, ect.

Sit. Your. Sorry. Ass. Down.

As a blonde, blue-eyed Jew with an Anglo last name living in metropolitan America I have undeniable white passing/white privilege. But my Jewish friends with dark curly hair, “swarthy” skin, and “Semitic” noses? My friends with last names like Weber and Katz and Rosen? They don’t pass in America, let alone in Europe (and I feel 100% confident in stating that you know jack-all about how Europeans view race, but spoiler alert: Jews definitely don’t make the white people shortlist there, light skinned or not). Ever notice how white supremacist groups always include Jews on their list of “enemies of the white race?” Or how the place where Jews are really overrepresented is in hate crime victim statistics? Millennia of rape and forced assimilation in diaspora may have lightened some of our skins (fun fact: many Jews, including many Ashkenazim, are people of color), but neither we nor white Gentiles have forgotten that our ethnicity and culture stem from the Levant.

It is absolutely mindblowing that you are using antisemitic falsehoods to deny that antisemitism exists. Far from controlling the slave trade, Jews were in fact barred by law from even entering many of the countries involved in the trade and were barred from or limited in engaging in international trade venues by several others. That is a canard heavily promoted in the black community by black antisemitic groups in the 90s, and has been utterly discredited by historians. And you’re going to pull out that antisemitic “Jews control the media, banks, and government!!!!!11!” bullshit, too? Really? Put down the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and read up on the “model minority” myth—and while you’re at it, take a look at how well financial success has shielded Jews from marginalization and violence in the past.

Were Jews often used post-Civil War as racial go-betweens and tools of white oppression against the black community? Yes, and it’s fucking shameful…but when those Jewish minstrel performers, shop owners, and slumlords went home in the evenings, it was to Jewish-only communities. Not because we chose to live there, but because white Gentiles didn’t accept us in their neighborhoods. We were “white” enough to do the jobs white people didn’t want to dirty their hands with, but not white enough to live with or go to social clubs with, God forbid. The entire reason colleges began requiring interviews and essays from admission applicants was to limit the number of Jews on campus, because we’re just so fucking privileged to be Jewish. The U.S. sent Jewish asylum-seekers and refugees fleeing the Holocaust back to Europe and refused to lift the immigration quota on Jews during WWII because it didn’t want any more white people.

Whiteness/white-passingness is a privilege (and yes, we Jews who have it need to be conscious of it). But Jewishness is NOT A PRIVILEGE, least of all “historically.” We look out for “our own” because Gentiles—white or otherwise—sure as fuck won’t.

Kiss my diasporic ass.

another one for the “tumblr sj has a worrying strain of anti-semitism” files, in case people thought i was making this shit up

I am black and a Jew, and I approve this comment. Judaism is not a privilege. Whiteness is. But as we ALL should know by now--and if you didn't, consider this your notice--one can benefit from one kind of privilege while simultaneously suffering under another kind of oppression. Black men still have certain aspects of male privilege; white women, some kinds of white privilege. Yet both can and should be seen as oppressed classes. 

So. Those of us who are oppressed--which, make NO mistake, is to a certain extent EVERYONE who is not a cisgendered, straight, white, Christian male--do nothing to advance the cause of equality by either A) Denying we benefit from the privileges we do, or B) Attacking other oppressed people for being not "oppressed enough" to count. 

Friendzone --> Girlfriend Zone

You know what’s so shitty about the friendzone? The word itself. It points the finger in the wrong direction.

Say you’re a girl. You’ve been around long enough to grow tired of boys who pay attention only as much as it takes to trick you into sleeping with them. Or boys who charm and lie and only let you see what they want you to see in order to get you to sleep with them. You grow tired of it because what you’d really like is to be valued for your company. You’d like that in a relationship and you’d like that in a friendship because what’s the point if the people you’re around don’t care for your company aside from when your legs are spread?

So it’s refreshing when you hang out with this boy who really does listen, and really is interested in hanging out and being friends. This is what friendship looks like. You know because you have girlfriends and that’s how girlfriends are: they listen and commiserate when you have a shitty date and they’re your shoulder to cry on and the ones who’ll lift you up. You’d do the same for all of your friends, after all. And you’d do the same for this boy, if he’d ever put himself out there and ask a girl out. That’s what friends do.

And then the hammer drops. He was only interested in having sex with you the whole time, and never showed it. He drops the word “friendzone” and gets mad. You? You’re feeling betrayed and gobsmacked because how did you do anything wrong? And this boy, the one you thought valued you for your company, was just playing the same game as the others, he just played it longer. He didn’t value your friendship and to him you only matter if your legs are spread.

So who deceived who?

Let’s stop letting words like “friendzone” dictate the nature of this phenomenon. It points the finger in the wrong direction. You didn’t “friendzone” him; he “girlfriend zoned” you. 

Guys! Hey, guys! Okay, I have an idea. We're Tumblr, right?  We've already made up an entire pidgin language. So what if--WHAT IF!--the next thing we do is start reclaiming the language of oppression? What if we start redefining the attitudes/pervasive ideas/terminology of those whose philosophies are hate-filled and dangerous, turn their words against them, then use our new and improved vocabulary as part of the building blocks for this better society we're working towards? 

People have done this, or tried to do this, throughout history. But Social Media should make it easier to accomplish. #YesAllWomen was a great one.  "Girlfriend-zoned" sounds like another.

Any other words we could redefine?

Why can’t there be a male hooter’s equivalent where male servers are shirtless and highly sexualized for their bodies and looks

Male Strip clubs. You’re thinking of male strip clubs.

No. Not a male strip club. A strip club is a strip club. I want a place called Cahones where waiters wear Speedos and are forced to stuff if they don’t fill out their uniform well enough. I want them to giggle for my tips. I want it to be so normalised and engrained in our culture that women bring their daughters there for lunch (because whaaaaaat the wings are good! Geeze sensitive much?) where they’ll give playful little nudges like, “Wouldn’t mind if you dad had those. Heh heh heh.” that their daughters don’t even understand but will absorb and start to assume is just the normal way grown up women talk about grown up men. I want to playfully ask my waiter if I can have extra nuts on my salad and for him to swat my arm with an Oh, you because he knows if he doesn’t his manager will yell at him. I want other men to pretend to like going there so I think they’re cool. I want to go to Cahones during my lunch break at work and when I come back and tell the other women in the office where I went they chuckle slightly and the men around us suddenly feel self conscious and they don’t know why.

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I'd very much like to punch a feminist.

I’d never, ever hurt a lady but I’d be happy to punch a feminist. It’d bring me great joy.

I’m 6’2 and weigh 180lbs

ready when you are

I thought I was going to be upset...but then it got better.

"How the Media Failed Women in 2013," courtesy of Miss Representation. This is mind-boggling and you must watch it right now.

Tilda Swinton risked arrest waving a rainbow flag in front of the Kremlin in violation of Russia’s new homosexual propaganda bill. And she wants everyone who can to reblog it in solidarity.

Guys please reblog this, it won’t ruin your blog, this is important

Thank you Tilda

I love this woman. She also showed her support to the turkish demonstrations.

so today i learned that in the late 1800s-early 1900s, the navy became concerned about possible homosexual activity among their sailors

so they sent in decoys, whose job was to pretend to want to engage in homosexual activity in order to find gay sailors

except then the job of the decoy got popular

like, really popular

like… worryingly popular?

reports said that the decoys were performing their jobs with “much enthusiasm and zeal”

eventually the navy decided. to. just stop.

This is the awesomest American History anecdote in...ever. In ever.