It hasn’t been a great week for women and it is only Tuesday.

After the fantastic soccer victory on Sunday, we find out (although we probably already knew) that the women’s team is woefully underpaid and under awarded in prize money in comparison to their male counterparts. Then, after pretty much dismissing the alleged victims, we find out that what they’ve been saying about Bill Cosby is true – he drugged women in order to have sex with them. Then this morning is the footage of the freshman football player from FSU (now former player) punching a woman in the face in an altercation in a bar, which given his age, he shouldn’t have been in anyhow. There’s some murkiness around the circumstances there, but still, decent men don’t punch women in the face.

The soccer situation is ridiculous and FIFA should get to work leveling the playing field, so to speak. Honestly, there’s no reason the women shouldn’t be sharing the same kind of prize money as the men. We’ve seen other sports fix that situation – tennis is a good example. This year’s men’s and women’s singles champion will each take home $2.85 million dollars.

The whole Bill Cosby thing is really unfathomable and once again, the victims were shamed or ridiculed instead of being taken seriously. Sure Bill seems like a great guy but when so many women came forward, it seems like someone should have taken the situation seriously. And how, after testifying that he did exactly what they said he did, when under oath in 2005, could Bill Cosby have been so smug in denying the charges?

The former FSU student may have had the bad luck of getting into a scrape which, had it not been for his predecessor, Jameis Winston, may not have gotten him booted from school, but too bad.  He was an underage star athlete in a bar. That title comes with expectations and he didn’t live up to them.

I’m not exactly Gloria Steinem but I’m pretty outraged. The total lack of respect for women is sickening and anyone with a mother, sister, daughter or wife, should be angry.  Would it be too hard for us to start respecting everyone, regardless of race, sexual orientation or gender, or do we have to continue doing this one group at a time?

You know what song I’m going to pick today –