Washington Post · Jul 1, 2019
The USWNT is after something far more subversive than just better pay
Megan Rapinoe, left, celebrates after scoring her second goal in a 2-1 quarterfinal victory over France. (Francisco Seco/AP)Megan Rapinoe and her unapologetically sinewy colleagues make you forget politics and categories. These are no first-wave, third-wave, millennial, post-colonial, post-structural, modern-eco marchers, boneless and aggrieved. Protestors aren’t supposed to be this ungrim and prancing, are they? There was Rapinoe, exulting in her pure self-driven dynamism and radiant in her cause, striking that pose like Diana Prince discovering she’s Wonder Woman: “I have no father. I was brought to life by Zeus!”