For real, though. THIS is the energy I’m carrying. Even though this International Women’s Day feels especially…frustrating.
In this country, women’s rights are being eroded day by day and state by state. We have an administration led by a (“alleged”) pedophile and rapist. What’s even more enraging is how many people in the United States continue to support this criminal organization.
And then there was the controversy over the men’s Olympic hockey team choosing to invite Kash Patel into their locker room (doesn’t he have criminals to catch…I mean one of them is RIGHT THERE in the White House!) and throw their support behind the (“alleged”) pedophile and rapist after guffawing at his “joke” about having to invite the ALSO GOLD-MEDAL-WINNING women’s Olympic hockey team to the White House too. And, instead of just admitting they fucked up, in true, Fragile Male Ego fashion, the players said they support the women’s team, but then complained that everyone was being too harsh on them, with two of the players even having THEIR MOM making excuses for them.
Meanwhile, it was left to the women’s Olympic hockey team’s players to have to answer questions about the crap the men’s team pulled. Here’s Hilary Knight demonstrating how a Queen responds to idiotic male behavior:
Let’s be real here, though. I was absolutely NOT surprised by the actions of the men’s team. I’ve been around hockey long enough to know the misogyny runs very deep.
And in the end, well, the women’s team was treated to dinner from Stanley Tucci at a Michelin-star restaurant and, along with other women Olympic athletes, will be feted by Flavor Flav this summer in Las Vegas.
The men’s team? Sure, they were recognized at the State of the Union address and, ordinarily, that would be swell. They were also treated to McDonald’s at the White House.
So, they could have chosen to be true allies with the women’s team and be widely seen as heroes along with the women’s players, but they chose cold burgers and stale fries because standing up for a women’s team and program that has medaled in EVERY Olympic competition since women’s hockey was added in 1998 was just asking too much. (The women’s lowest finish was a bronze medal in 2006.)
The men’s team could have chosen to fully celebrate an unprecedented feat: both the women’s and men’s teams winning gold in the same Olympics. Instead, they chose to center a male president (he has not earned being called a man)—and make no mistake, that is exactly what Trump wanted out of this—that ultimately diminished their accomplishment.
Talk about scoring an own goal.
My wish for this International Women’s Day is that, by this time next year, we never again have to hear about the “male loneliness epidemic,” and that everyone involved in the Epstein Pedophile Cartel answers for their crimes. EVERYONE.
May International Women’s Day 2027 be a lot happier than 2026.