"man, if only I were that powerful to remove men from power" #TheFutureisFemale

Yep, real classy woman...

The mainstream media is in love with her, for some reason. They're just as out of touch in Canada.

http://www.trackie.com/track-and-field/Forum/news-flash/14636/

Ben Dover wrote:

Yep, real classy woman...

The mainstream media is in love with her, for some reason. They're just as out of touch in Canada.

http://www.trackie.com/track-and-field/Forum/news-flash/14636/

I love it how these feminazis use their fingers to represent a penis.

LOL

Bump.

Letsrun, you're letting me down. I leave for ~ 6 hours and only 2 replies?!

Her comment is at least as bad as Sheila Reid's, concerning old, white men, which generated many pages worth of discussion.

Don't make me start trolling as an angry feminist in order to get replies.

Men and women have been around for the same length of time. If women actually wanted to be, or had the ability to be in power. Don't you think they would have by now?

What does it mean in this context to be "in power"?

You are not getting any replies because the tweet doesn't mean what you think it means. It does not mean "I wish I were powerful enough to remove these men from power." It means "I didn't remove [whatever man] from power because I am not that powerful."

Alan Bennet wrote:

You are not getting any replies because the tweet doesn't mean what you think it means. It does not mean "I wish I were powerful enough to remove these men from power." It means "I didn't remove [whatever man] from power because I am not that powerful."

Well, assuming the Jeff Adams quote is taken word for word, she uses the word "men"; not Peter Eriksson. She then goes on to add the hashtag #TheFutureisFemale. I don't follow her closely but, from what I gather, she has taken hard-line feminist stances in the past.

It seems pretty clear to me that her tweet means that she wants to remove MEN from positions of power, in favor of women. Lanni's a lawyer. She isn't a very good one if she misspoke.

Here she is speaking to MPs in Ottawa about "women's issues". She believes that there isn't gender parity between men and women in the sport of track and field and that women are being oppressed. If anything, women have it better than men in long distance running (more scholarships, more road races offering prize money, women-only sponsors... etc).

I really dislike this woman. She is such a phony and seems to love to play the role of the victim; never mind that she is the definition of privileged. Also, is she really the best athlete to be chosen to speak in front of government MPs? She is a nobody on the World scene and, as far as I'm aware, she doesn't even live or work in Canada.

Nice rant.

Nobody gives a rat's @ss about this story or your opinion on it.

Feel better?

Oops, I forgot to put "story" in quotes.

Apparently you cared enough to reply.

Twice.

Indeed. Hope that was enough attention for you.

Gawd she is insufferable. Somebody needed to ask her the Canadian team standard for the men and women, than ask what the respective world records were. It would be clearly and mathematically clear just how much of an advantage Canadian women are being given to relative to the men.

Over the past year or so she has taken an increasingly aggressive SJW tone in the media. She has become quite the feminazi. Probably thinking about her transition out of sport as she is getting up there in age.

The mainstream media and the running rags that are not much more than advertising booklets (Canadian Running, iRun) love her, but real runners know the real story.

Oh, and she has a law degree, but she doesn't practice. I'm fairly sure she has never set foot in a courtroom. Another story puffed up in the media to create that "wonder woman" persona.

Never met her before. What's her beef with me? ;)

Alan Bennet wrote:

You are not getting any replies because the tweet doesn't mean what you think it means. It does not mean "I wish I were powerful enough to remove these men from power." It means "I didn't remove [whatever man] from power because I am not that powerful."

The only thing more insufferable than watching those videos is when she teams up with that other blond moron from Canada notasha.

These were the two that got smoked at the end of that race in jamaica on espn.

She loves to play the victim because she's a lawyer, that's how they're trained and that's all they know.

She's seen how playing the victim card gets you power. She's a good runner but I think those days are over. So she's doubling down on the victim role as an excuse for her inevitable fade.

5 foot Cleve wrote:

The only thing more insufferable than watching those videos is when she teams up with that other blond moron from Canada notasha.

These were the two that got smoked at the end of that race in jamaica on espn.

That Jamaican lady gets an award for Microagression Of The Year!

She's hot though.