Sheila Reid hangs up her spikes

Kettle wrote:

Very true. wrote:

I find many posters are exceptionally mean to female runners. Each post has it's specifics, but really, the mean post against female runners are all the same. See the mean post against Stephanie Garcia and Brenda Martinez over the past couple of years. Much of the anger is based on jealousy IMO. Women track teams get as many as 18 scholarships and the men only get about 12. Many men on Let's Run are mad, IMO that 2:10/4:55 women 800/1600 runners get at least partial scholarships. There are, I am sure deeper psychological issues which bring on the hate toward women runners.

Are you really suggesting 'deep psychological issues' as a reason to call someone out for making idiotic claims?

Guys are 'mean' (read: blunt, insensitive, fact and logic driven irrespective to emotion) to everyone. The guys on the receiving end of this type of commentary just don't turn into victims about it.

Kettle wrote:

vivalarepublica wrote:

I was wondering why this thread had so many replies. And of course it was because the delicate sensibilities on the letsrun crowd about a woman expressing her opinion. Never really thought about the mile being a nostalgia fest, but it kinda is.

Also, the 1500 is superior to the mile because it starts on a straightaway rather than a curve so you don't have these nutty tapered double waterfall starts and such.

It is not correct to pretend males here were 'offended' or 'triggered' by what she was saying. They were making fun of her for being an illogical fool. Saying they were 'triggered' is a response to make them seem inferior or to insinuate they had lost control of their faculties.

Here's the issue. She was trying to divide track into 'he' and 'she' for nothing other than the sake of being a victim of the patriarchy. Yes, the mile's most significant barrier and perhaps one of track's most memorable moments was when a white male ran under 4 minutes. Rather than acknowledging that it was a great moment for the sport of track and field, she perplexingly found a way to turn her and her gender into victims and attempt to divide the sport. Y'know what? Almost every single male who runs the mile will never run 4 minutes, they can still appreciate what that means to the history of track and field.

Calling her out for being annoying is not being 'triggered' or 'offended', it's good common sense and more people should push back against this type of behavior.

askndfa.sdkfj wrote:

Kettle wrote:

It is not correct to pretend males here were 'offended' or 'triggered' by what she was saying. They were making fun of her for being an illogical fool. Saying they were 'triggered' is a response to make them seem inferior or to insinuate they had lost control of their faculties.

Here's the issue. She was trying to divide track into 'he' and 'she' for nothing other than the sake of being a victim of the patriarchy. Yes, the mile's most significant barrier and perhaps one of track's most memorable moments was when a white male ran under 4 minutes. Rather than acknowledging that it was a great moment for the sport of track and field, she perplexingly found a way to turn her and her gender into victims and attempt to divide the sport. Y'know what? Almost every single male who runs the mile will never run 4 minutes, they can still appreciate what that means to the history of track and field.

Calling her out for being annoying is not being 'triggered' or 'offended', it's good common sense and more people should push back against this type of behavior.

The problem is that you are too dumb to understand what she was saying. On that basis, there is no point in discussing. Good day.