Molly Seidel's airplane story

You also can't spell her name.

With masks, it's harder to recognize people. She doesn't seem like the type to make this up.

This reminds me of a story about Doug Gilmour, one of the top Ice Hockey players of the 80s and 90s. He wandered into a ice rink one afternoon where a kids match was taking place. Apparently there were scouts there as well and one of the kids was throwing his weight about a bit too much to try to impress the scouts. At one point Gilmore approached the kid and told him the scouts would rather see his stick and puck handling skills as anyone can throw their body around. The kid's father heard this and went up to Gilmour and started berating him. He ended with, "If you knew anything about the game you would be playing it, not watching it." At which point Gilmour said, "I guess you're right." and walked off.

Without a doubt that passenger is a poster here on LRC. I would also venture a bet that he has posted on this thread

^^^this^^^

So the guy got to know her training well enough to recommend things to her and show her her own training, but never once asked about her times, or what marathons she ran, or any of those things that would be super common? This is a really strange story...

adslkfjadf;hg wrote:

So the guy got to know her training well enough to recommend things to her and show her her own training, but never once asked about her times, or what marathons she ran, or any of those things that would be super common? This is a really strange story...

Exactly. I think Molly made up or changed the real story to make it work for her social media accounts.

^^^also didn’t happen in real life^^^

An NHL star just wanders in to a kid’s game on his time off? Not likely to be a true story.

Webbster wrote:

It seems far fetched. So this guy knew about Molly, knew about her training, knew the person sitting to him was a runner and either couldn't figure out who she was or didn't ask any specifics of her running. Like I said, far fetched.

Also, its funny how there's an army of people on Twitter just waiting and salivating at the opportunity to cry mansplaining. There aren't enough details in the tweet to come to that conclusion.

I think I could sit next to her, with masks on, and not know it was her. She just doesn't have a face that I've seen enough. The not asking about specifics is part and parcel for the socially awkward. I completely agree with your second paragraph.

cyanide wrote:

mansplaining is the new way of saying I don't want tot listen to perfect valid information and want a justice bonner to my fellow "youths". Especially valid with women who do something well but haven't proved their ability to know the subject of which they doing well well.

It's called confusing ability with knowledge. When someone with ability, usually a female, hears someone with knowledge, usually a man, and they're too immature to hold a converstation = mansplaining.

Mmkay, mansplainer.

I show up in that party

Like where the F that molly?

Lars Sqweebles wrote:

Undoubtedly this is a fake story.

However , were it real , perhaps the guy is a coach? Often a coach will know 50x more about training than the athlete. Not all athletes make great coaches.

Even so, my bet is on this being a figment of her imagination.

Agreed. Sorry, this was made up for publicity. Next.

If she was flying business class this is exactly the kind of behaviour you witness all the time, men who think they know better than everyone so they never ask, especially when talking to women.

It’s exactly the kind of men on this forum, and in this thread, and saying she made this up.

I’m not reading all thee comments because after the first few I can tell you guys have never been around women.

It was a dude. On a plane. Sitting next to a healthy woman. He’s a guy. Do you get it? He was hitting on her. That’s what guys do. He couldn’t help himself. He just had to open his big blabber machine and try to impress her. Guys loooooove to talk about anything that increases their penis size. I don’t know how you guys don’t see that.

Guys even do it to other guys. How many times have you met a guy that finds out you run and he proceeds to tell you about “that Kenyon Elvis Kaychogee who ran a marathon in like an hour and half?”

People really don’t know sh!t. Look at the boards here. People are stupid. Remember when wejo started that thread not knowing Simpson was on the 4x100y WR relay team. It is completely possible that a normie doesn’t know Seidel. You see someone in booty shirts and a halter with sweat and ponytail every day, they’re going to look different in casual clothes on a plane.

high school xc coach wrote:

Webbster wrote:

It seems far fetched. So this guy knew about Molly, knew about her training, knew the person sitting to him was a runner and either couldn't figure out who she was or didn't ask any specifics of her running. Like I said, far fetched.

Also, its funny how there's an army of people on Twitter just waiting and salivating at the opportunity to cry mansplaining. There aren't enough details in the tweet to come to that conclusion.

I think I could sit next to her, with masks on, and not know it was her. She just doesn't have a face that I've seen enough. The not asking about specifics is part and parcel for the socially awkward. I completely agree with your second paragraph.

Perhaps, but this person was a big enough fan to have created an analysis of her training and had it handy on his phone. I'm not saying this story is impossible, but....

I do not find it that strange. For a year there was a woman in a large running group pretty much every Wednesday night. Only ever saw her in running gear and that included a hat a lot. Now we only spoke a few times and never ran together.

One evening I am at an event and I see this woman dressed nicely, make up, hair done. She looks familiar. Finally make my way over and she says my name and asks how I am. Once I heard her voice I realized who it was.

In the end, he was not wrong with his advice!

This 100% did not happen. Molly is an amazing runner, but is also well known for making up stories that sound funny and interesting and garner attention. Cringey.

I hear you loud and clear wrote:

Fast Women is a hangout for Women that have spent their lives being rejected by Men. I am a Woman.

Fox News is for the extreme right. Fast Women is for rejected Women.

Ok , dude.

VAcoach wrote:

Without a doubt that passenger is a poster here on LRC. I would also venture a bet that he has posted on this thread

The funniest part is he's probably reading all the dudes on here mansplaining how he's made up.