Ohanian, who was “so blissful you didn’t introduce me because the creator of Reddit,” purchased into Angel Metropolis FC of the Nationwide Girls’s Soccer League (NWSL) after watching the Seattle Reign—which had U.S. Nationwide Group star Megan Rapinoe on its roster on the time—promote for simply $3.5 million 2019. Citing the affect of web communities, stars like Alex Morgan and profitable franchises like Ryan Reynolds’ and Rob McIlhenney’s Welcome to Wrexham, Ohanian invested within the girls’s sports activities future he wished to see.
That extends to his daughter, who is sort of seven and isn’t allowed on social media. As an alternative, she golfs every Sunday together with her teacher and goes to golf camp in the course of the summer time. Since her teacher is a girl and her camp is for ladies, Ohanian mentioned she’s grown to imagine that golf is a girls’s sport and “her dad on his driving vary” and “a bunch of different outdated white dudes” are simply ready to select up their daughters from golf.
Whereas Ohanian loves that concept—and that she might go professional or hit balls higher than her group and work or whoever asks her out on a date—he’s conscious that golf shouldn’t be fairly as she envisions. Whereas he doesn’t need to shatter a six-year-old’s worldview, he is aware of he’ll need to navigate the game’s actuality.
“I do know although I nonetheless want to assist construct that resilience and for now I’m having fun with it as a result of hand-to-god she thinks all of us outdated white dudes are simply ready for our daughters,” Ohanian mentioned. “And I need her to think about that sport that method, and I need her to think about the world that method, however the actuality is it’s not like that and we’ve obtained to do our job to get her prepared for it.”
