Japan’s Women Flying Coach While the Men Fly Business
Japan’s World Cup-winning women’s soccer team flew to the London Olympics in coach, while their male counterparts, who have never won jack shit, flew business class on the same plane.
Japanese IOC committee explained that while the women’s team is ranked third in the world and the men’s team is ranked 20th, they are still women. So…
*sigh* This stuff infuriates me.
Full disclosure, I made up that quote – but I have to think that if you gave the Japanese guy who made the call a shot of sodium penethol, that’s pretty much what he’d say.
These women would probably have been happy to fly coach if they’d gotten to go at all: http://msmagazine.com/blog/blog/2012/07/10/newsflash-saudi-women-will-not-be-competing-in-olympics/