ESPN takes Will Cain out of context in equal pay argument during USWNT award segment

The U.S. girls’s nationwide soccer staff on Wednesday obtained the Arthur Ashe Braveness Award at ESPN’s annual award present, the ESPYSfor his or her struggle for equal pay with the lads’s staff and elevating consciousness for pay inequity and social injustices in each area.

The noble trigger was heart stage in Los Angeles, and it got here with a montage exhibiting how and why the gamers determined to take up the difficulty of equal pay and their lawsuit towards U.S. Soccer.

The montage then talked about the “critics pushing again at them” exhibiting tweets from those that disagreed and Will Cain, a former ESPN host now with Fox Information Channel, providing his opinion on the matter. The montage included this quote from Cain.

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“I believe equal pay is a ridiculous idea in and of itself. Soccer, for higher or worse, on the lads’s facet throughout this globe is rather more standard than the ladies’s,” Cain is quoted as saying.

The clip then confirmed U.S. girls’s soccer icon Brandi Chastain, saying “Oh, we get that argument on a regular basis.”

ESPN didn’t take Cain’s full argument, and it was seen on social media. State Freedom Caucus Community communication director Greg Worth discovered the total clip from Cain’s take and posted it on Twitter on Wednesday evening.

Here’s what the present “Fox & Friends Weekend” host stated within the clip.

“I’ll let you know why it’s like this. Now there’s two issues, initially. Whenever you speak about, as Trevor Scales simply laid out, the bonus distinction between the lads’s staff and the ladies’s staff. Between what a winner, if it had been the U.S. males would get within the World Cup, and the ladies.

Host Will Cain as former NFL participant Tim Tebow visits “Fox & Pals” to advertise his new kids’s e-book “Mission Doable” at Fox Information Channel Studios on Might 17, 2022 in New York Metropolis. (Roy Rochlin/Getty Photographs)

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“The ladies acquired paid out from a pool of $30 million from the Women’s World Cup. The boys would draw from a pool of $400 million. Why is that? It’s as a result of the Males’s World Cup generates $6 billion in income. The Girls’s World Cup generates $131 million in income. If you wish to speak about pay disparity, the Girls’s World Cup gamers receives a commission out 20% of the full income. The boys receives a commission out 7%. As a proportion level, they’re getting rather more.

“The issue is, for anyone needing equal pay, and by the best way, I believe equal pay is a ridiculous idea in and of itself. If the ladies generate extra income, they need to receives a commission greater than the lads. Don’t try for getting the identical, try for getting what you’re price. And if you happen to’re price extra then get extra.

“And so what I’m saying to you proper now’s, soccer, for higher or worse, on the lads’s facet throughout this globe is rather more standard than girls’s soccer.”

When former ESPN host Charly Arnolt introduced up the scores between the ladies’s and males’s World Cups, Cain and former host Ryan Hollins each stated that was within the U.S.

“And that’s evaluating a Girls’s World Cup Closing that featured the USA towards a Males’s World Cup Closing in the USA that didn’t characteristic the U.S. staff.”

Megan Rapinoe and Allie Lengthy have a good time throughout a Victory Ticker Tape Parade for the U.S. Girls’s Nationwide Soccer Workforce down the Canyon of Heroes on July 10, 2019 in New York Metropolis. (Debra L Rothenberg/WireImage)

ESPN didn’t instantly reply to Fox Information Digital’s request for remark.

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Cain wrote in response: “It’s nonetheless true. Nonetheless unpopular. Full context. Full fact.”