#play like a girl

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Play Like A Girl!

Women's Soccer in the United States ⚽⚽⚽

From its early days, the story of women's soccer is one of resilience, determination, and sheer love for the game.

The first recorded women's soccer match in the U.S. took place way back in 1922, featuring the Dick, Kerr's Ladies of England and a local amateur St. Louis team. While this historic match sparked interest, the sport didn't really take off until the 1970s. 

A game-changer was the passing of Title IX in 1972, a federal law that said "no way" to sex-based discrimination in schools. This opened the door for more opportunities in sports, including women's soccer.

The first NCAA Women's Soccer Championship took place in 1982, further legitimizing the sport at the collegiate level.

Meanwhile, the U.S. Women's National Team (USWNT) was formed in 1985, making their international debut at the Mundialito tournament in Italy that same year.

The team's success in the 1991 Women's World Cup, where they emerged as champions, marked a turning point in the popularity and recognition of women's soccer in the United States.

In 1999, the United States hosted the World Cup. The USWNT captured the hearts of fans everywhere with their nail-biting victory against China in a penalty shootout. Who can forget Brandi Chastain's iconic celebration after scoring the winning goal? That moment became a symbol of the growth and success of women's soccer–and women athletes–in the United States. 

Fast forward to 2013, when the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) was created as the go-to professional league for women's soccer in the U.S. Today, the NWSL and USWNT continue to make waves in the sport, with the national team winning multiple Olympic gold medals and World Cup titles. So get out there, and Play Like a Girl!

Further Reading:

Title IX and Women’s Soccer in NARA’s Film Holdings

[inkskinned]

this is just my opinion but i think any good media needs obsession behind it. it needs passion, the kind of passion that's no longer "gentle scented candle" and is now "oh shit the house caught on fire". it needs a creator that's biting the floorboards and gnawing the story off their skin. creators are supposed to be wild animals. they are supposed to want to tell a story with the ferocity of eating a good stone fruit while standing over the sink. the same protective, strange instinct as being 7 and making mud potions in pink teacups: you gotta get weird with it.

good media needs unhinged, googling-at-midnight kind of energy. it needs "what kind of seams are invented on this planet" energy and "im just gonna trust the audience to roll with me about this" energy. it needs one person (at least) screaming into the void with so much drive and energy that it forces the story to be real.

sometimes people are baffled when fanfic has some stunning jaw-dropping tattoo-it-on-you lines. and i'm like - well, i don't go here, but that makes sense to me. of fucking course people who have this amount of passion are going to create something good. they moved from a place of genuine love and enjoyment.

so yeah, duh! saturday cartoons have banger lines. random street art is sometimes the most precious heart-wrenching shit you've ever seen. someone singing on tiktok ends up creating your next favorite song. youtubers are giving us 5 hours of carefully researched content. all of this is the impossible equation to latestage capitalism. like, you can't force something to be good. AI cannot make it good. no amount of focus-group testing or market research. what makes a story worth listening to is that someone cares so much about telling it - through dance, art, music, whatever it takes - that they are just a little unhinged about it.

one time my friend told me he stayed up all night researching how many ways there are to peel an orange. he wrote me a poem that made me cry on public transportation. the love came through it like pith, you know? the words all came apart in my hands. it tasted like breakfast.

[chloesimaginationthings]

New FNAF clown Jackie from secret of the Mimic!!

[batfamhastwitter]

Part 34! Alfred let Tim leave the poster up for a day before he makes him take it down

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[cidnangarlond]

[dykekarkat]

there's something about neil and the ease with which he withstands torture but is fully undone by simple pleasure. 2 weeks in the nest that he can barely remember but his refusal to bend to riko and tetsuji is Easy for him. not even the slightest temptation to sign their contract because pain is something so easily endured. neil kisses andrew and it is the worst thing and best thing that ever happens to him. his father and lola and his mother trained him to endure a million different kinds of pain to survive but it's andrew kissing him that neil decides to die for. he has noo defenses against andrew's touch it breaks him down in a way all the pain and torture was never able to do. makes you think huh.

[alienssstufff]

One of us is gonna have to say it.

MonoPearl

[mokimo-art]

Efah really likes this trend

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

The girls are back (from the grave)

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[subby-fluffybunny]

Everyone always talks about fast and hard fucking, but where’s the appreciation for being fucked torturously slowly? When they force you to feel every single bump, lump and inch of their strap and go deep, really deep, and never pick up the pace, while they ever so gently circle your clit too. The slow build of your orgasm and feeling your cunt tighten around the strap and feeling everything even more intensely… when your orgasm finally goes over the edge it feels like something entirely different to a normal orgasm, it starts off kinda slow and then hits so HARD and you can feel every single contraction and each one brings another strong wave of complete euphoria and it keeps going for almost as long as they keep pounding you. Bonus points if they teased you for 30 mins before hand using just your nipples, and then put vibrating clamps on them while they fuck you.

That being said, I need a domme to come do that to me please 🥺👉👈

MEN AND MINORS DNI THIS IS A POST ABOUT LESBIAN SEX

[canarydraws]

Andromeda 💙💜🩷

[heartorbit]

figure skating set right now please. thanks

[chloesimaginationthings]

Vanessa TOTALLY got those Tapes for the FNAF lore..

[lostiel]

[stephreynaart]

“The song is still dumb, but it’s my Dipper’s song”

[hoshizoralone]

began playing halo and cortana is probably my new best friend