After two decades, 199 career games with the US National Team, and 63 international goals, Megan Rapinoe is retiring. Her legacy won’t just be as a great athlete. She’ll also be remembered for her outspoken support of social justice. Dave Zirin looks back on this dimension of her career, from her decision to take a knee with Colin Kaepernick, to her recent advocacy of transgender rights.

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32 thoughts on “Megan Rapinoe, sports and social justice icon | Edge of Sports”
  1. I don’t think you guys realize you push away most working class people when you buy into this pronoun/ cis blah blah bs ….

  2. So she never got arrested,beat up, gave up her land, asks for the cops not to protect her but she’s an icon? Riiiigghht 😂

  3. I don’t really like the sport that much, unlike most people in the UK it seems like. But she is fantastic. One of the handful of professional athletes willing to rock the boat and get political about racism, sexism, inequality and presumably climate change. I hope so anyway. There are so many times where I’m watching an athlete be interviewed, and I’m imagining them saying something bold about any of these issues. Saying they’re going to donate 95% of their record breaking contract to people in need or other charitable causes, because they don’t need that absurd amount. But it never happens. Even someone you think of as being a nice person, like Shohei Ohtani (because Japanese people tend to be nice and considerate), is almost certainly not going to do that. None of them will. The money goes to their heads and corrupts them. Perhaps Meghan Rapinoe wouldn’t be if she ever got paid equally.

  4. Let me know when her team can beat a high school boys team. Then come and talk about equal pay. Yet at the same time she wants women to feel unsafe in their own spaces.

  5. You want to be a true advocate for sports professionals? Ask why an experimental substance that was shown in studies to create the risks of adverse cardiac events in 1 in 35 volunteers was mandated to athletes. Those volunteers were followed & advised not to participate in strenuous activities & suffered no sudden deaths. If professional athletes weren't similarly advised, they couldn't give informed consent. How many have we lost in the last few years? Too many!!!

  6. Her team does not represent the USA. We vehemently reject Rapinoe and her spoiled out of touch team.

  7. What a load of tripe. Sports is a meritocracy. Lousy restaurants suffer similar "discrimination" for failing to fulfill their customers.

  8. Unsubbed. Equal pay for a lower quality product and lower viewership is just silliness. Literally zero injustice here. Let’s focus on things that make sense 👍

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