I <3 Megan Rapinoe

     Okay, how much do you love Megan Rapinoe?
    Me, I’m a Megan Rapinoe superfan.
    I love, love, love the video clip of her poo-pooing a prospective invitation to the White house. And it’s not the fact of her saying that she won’t visit the White House that I love, but how she says it; or rather, how the clip opens with Megan looking doe-eyed, delicate and sylph-like,

...until she opens her mouth and grunts, “I'm not going to the f**kin’ White House.”

    The video clip is only a few seconds long and I’ve watched it a dozen times, but it still cracks me up every time.
     If you haven’t yet seen the clip, you must. Here’s the link:
     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLzR0XIpj7s

     I also love Megan's twitter quip about gays and science:

    "You can't win a championship without gays on your team. It’s never been done before, ever. That’s science, right there.”

   I'm hoping she'll show up as a host on Saturday Night Live.
   But more than her scintillating wit and gift for comic timing, I'm inspired by Megan Rapinoe's social activism and her fearlessness in speaking truth to power. During an interview with on CNN with Anderson Cooper she had this eloquent message for Donald Trump:
​        "Your message is excluding people. You're excluding me, you're excluding people that look like me, you're excluding people of color, you're excluding Americans that maybe support you...you're harking back to an era that was not great for everyone -- it might have been great for a few people, and maybe America is great for a few people right now, but it's not great for enough Americans in this world."

    And there was the powerful speech she gave during yesterday's ticker tape parade in New York City during which she declared:
​           "This is my charge to everyone. We have to be better. We have to love more, hate less. We’ve got to listen more and talk less. We’ve got to know that this is everybody’s responsibility, every single person here, every single person who is not here, every single person who doesn’t want to be here, every single person who agrees and doesn’t agree, it’s our responsibility to make this world a better place."

  And, of course, along with her brand of media influence and social activism, what's not to love that Megan Rapinoe,

...can play some soccer, too?

References:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLzR0XIpj7s

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/09/politics/megan-rapinoe-anderson-cooper-trump-cnntv/index.html

https://www.businessinsider.com/megan-rapinoe-speech-uswnt-celebration-fifa-world-cup-2019-7