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“And, so who came out first, you or your twin sister?”

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“If Morgan or Rapinoe earned more than a top American male national team player in a year, the judge pointed out, it was only because they had to play so many more games — and win more of them. Not to mention attending many more training camps and performing many more duties. If you pay a woman $10 an hour but she has to work a double shift to take home as much as a man making $20 an hour, that ain’t equal. What matters is the rate they’re paid at, not whether she manages, with sheer strenuousness, to make up the difference. From January 2017 through October 2019, Morgan and Rapinoe et. al. won 83 percent of their games, while the men’s team won just 48 percent. The women racked up a record of 48-4-6. The men went 21-11-13 over the same stretch. The women played 58 matches, with 46 friendlies, five World Cup qualifiers and seven World Cup games. The men played just 44 matches with no World Cup games. So yes, Morgan made $1,201,449.64 over that period, more than her male peer. But had she been paid at the same rate as him for the same work, she’d have made $4,104,920.65. For Rapinoe, the difference between being an American woman player and an American man was the difference between $1.16 million and $3.7 million. For Lloyd, $1.2 million versus $4.1 million. For Becky Sauerbrunn, $1.18 million versus $4.17 million. The notion that a woman has to work two jobs to have a chance to make what a male earns at a single job is not only legally wrong under Title VII and the Equal Pay Act, it is morally repugnant. What is likely to rile a jury just as much are the crummy little details of their treatment. In 2017, U.S. Soccer pampered its men’s team with charter flights on 17 occasions. It did not charter-fly the women’s team even once. Players consider charter flights a major reprieve and factor in physical recovery, as they allow for more rest before and after games, with no long waits or missed connections in airports. This injury, the judge noted, ‘is concrete.’ For years, the USWNT has made less money for more and better work and has been treated worse for it. A judge has recognized that. Next, a jury can make the federation accountable for it — with back pay and punitive rewards for every little slight and baked-in sexist assumption inflicted on every individual in the entire class of plaintiffs, which includes any woman who has been called up to a training camp since 2015. If the federation was smart, which it isn’t, it would recognize the size of the bill about to come due.”

— More from Sally Jenkins for the Washington Post (via hangrysweatpants)

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Alice & Nat

The L Word Generation Q s01e02

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history fucked me up

oxford was built and operational as a college before the rise of the mayans and cleopatra lived in a time nearer to pizza hut’s invention than to the pyramids being built

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You saved me from the acid!

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Harley Quinn The Animated Series

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Not sure what this is but I love him

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home and away out there giving us everything tbh

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A HAPPY WILLOW!

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“I was hoping to speak to the manager. I heard she’s super hot, tall and pretty.”

“How can I help you?”

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This whole ban on pda is killing me. Your rule not mine.

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“After he ordered a cup of coffee, he sat at a table close to a window. He crossed his legs and looked out the window. The sight of the rolling clouds on the blue sky caught his attention. He stared as the clouds slowly formed into a certain shape for a second or two, then slowly changed to another. A lady walked up to him, placed a cup of coffee in front of him and proceeded to sit across the table. “What are you looking at?” She asked. He gave a little smile as he turned to her. “Have I ever told you about my love for the sky?” “No,” she shook her head, “what about it?” “Well, I love it a lot,” he replied, “And I used to take a lot of pictures. Whether it is a sunset or a sunrise, blue or orange, with pink clouds or glittered clouds. I remember my gallery was full of it.” “I even sent most of them to her,” he went on, reaching out for the coffee, “she loved the sky just as much.” “And then?” “Then,” he said, after a sip, with her listening attentively to every word that was finding its way out of his heart, “things didn’t last. She left not too long after that.” “Since that day, I kind of stopped looking up to the sky and take pictures. I was afraid that I would be reminded of her. It hurt so much to be reminded.” “What about now?” He placed the cup back on the table and took out his phone. He positioned it and snapped a picture of the view out the window. Then he started typing something on his device and put it away. Before she knew it, she received a notification of a new message. She took out her phone from her bag and realized that it was a text from him. “Just what are you doing?” She looked up from the screen and gave him a raised eyebrow. “Open it.” She then clicked to view the text and it was a picture he took just a minute ago. It was a beautiful shot of an aligned clouds on the blue sky. She stared at it in awe. “This is to answer your previous question,” he said after a little pause, “Now, I have realized that you cannot deny the whole view over a small thing, over something that is no longer there. That you have to keep looking for a new reason to start all over again.” “And next time,” he smiled at her, “I will take better pictures, I promise.””

— Lukas W. // Forgotten Words #255 // The sky (via somepiecesofmyheartandsoul)

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https://twitter.com/archeometrie/status/1170031822614474752?s=12

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i feel like were not reacting enough to this one.


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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) 

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