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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMegan Rapinoe Reveals How She Deals With Her Parents Watching Fox News
?crop=3396,2213,x0,y0&width=580&height=326&fit=bounds&auto=webpMegan Rapinoe Reveals How She Deals With Her Parents Watching Fox News
Ill say: I dont get it. How are you simultaneously as proud as punch of me, and watching Fox News all the time, doing takedowns of your daughter?
Megan Rapinoe has explained how she deals with her parents watching Fox News, in light of the attacks some of its hosts and contributors leveled at her during the U.S. womens soccer teams recent World Cup-winning run in France.
Im very similar to how they are, even though I think my dad voted for Trump and Ill say: I dont get it. How are you simultaneously as proud as punch of me, and watching Fox News all the time, [who are doing] takedowns of your daughter? the teams co-captain told The Guardian in an interview published Saturday. Thats why Im like: You guys need to go to therapy.
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Earlier in the interview, the 34-year-old also recalled growing up learning unspoken lessons about equality in what was a nonpolitical household. Both of my parents should be really progressive ― especially my mom ― and I dont get that theyre not, she said. Im always saying: You guys should really be Democrats! But theyre not, so whats happening?
Their differences in political opinions have led to some major blowups, she acknowledged. But Rapinoe remains close to her family.
Its not like: Ugh, Im from a conservative town and I never talk to them any more. I talk to my parents all the time, every day. And I feel like I have seen progress and growth, she noted. I would love it if people understood you should never say racist things and be OK with gay people, or whatever it is. But, obviously, it doesnt happen that quickly.
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Megan Rapinoe Reveals How She Deals With Her Parents Watching Fox News (Original Post)
Demovictory9
Aug 2019
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Sancho
(9,070 posts)1. Link?
Sancho
(9,070 posts)3. thanks.
Takket
(21,575 posts)4. I agree. Anyone watching Faux Newz
Is being brainwashed and needs therapy.
Cary
(11,746 posts)5. I was hoping for a better understanding of how to deal with "conservatives"
RAB910
(3,501 posts)6. The toxic affect of the anti-American FAUX NEWS
That station has done more damage to America than anything else in our history (short of slavery and the wholesale slaughter of native Americans)
FakeNoose
(32,645 posts)7. Most American families are dealing with this in one way or another
I'm sure she loves her parents anyway, so she just lets it go.
If my parents were still living, I would do the same.