ALEXI PAPPAS IS DEBUTING IN CHICAGO

yes, yes wrote:

hatehatehatehate wrote:

I can’t believe that an outspoken female runner that markets herself well wouldn’t be more popular on Letsrun!

Perhaps for an inoculated subject like you she could change her gender when the pacer drops off the course. What a progressive moment.

I'm inoculated because I'm not bitter enough?

vivalarepublica wrote:

Let's not put Katherine Switzer on the same level as Pappas. What Switzer did required a lot more courage than creating some mediocre art. Yes, creating art and putting it out there and opening yourself up to criticism takes some courage, but not the courage that has made Switzer's story still resonate decades after it happened.

Please, Switzer has piggybacked and upstaged Bobbi Gibb at every damn opportunity. Without Gibb's action and publicity, it's questionable Switzer would have followed suit. And Switzer did it without really facing immediate and direct anonymous feedback, and yeah I remember the foiled assault from an elderly Jock Semple, which is what AP gets on social media. No doubt its as bad as the response here x100.

You honestly think it's horny guys giving all the Bravie comments, likes, retweets? Go ahead, start a thread asking forum posters to compare their perspectives on Alexi's looks to those of Emma Coburn or Shalane Flanagan, see if the consensus supports your contention.

red glare wrote:

You honestly think it's horny guys giving all the Bravie comments, likes, retweets? Go ahead, start a thread asking forum posters to compare their perspectives on Alexi's looks to those of Emma Coburn or Shalane Flanagan, see if the consensus supports your contention.

The primary market for attractive women on instagram is other women (who want to mimic them), not horny guys. That's why she acts and models clothes rather than competes.

If you've seen much of the "attractive woman runner" IG accounts, you'd know she's not even in the top half in follower count, she doesn't show herself in tight clothing in every single post, and you don't see all the "OMG, I want to impregnate you tonight" sort of comments. Her content is built far less on her appearance than on her message. But believe what you want, whatever.

Alexi has her niche all figured out. She’s definitely good looking, but not in the same way that, say, Emma Coburn or some Instagram fitness model is. So that’s a plus for her in terms of marketability—high school and college girls love her because she seems more relatable and less intimidating than some extraordinarily hot chick who models yoga pants or whatever. She’s someone that they could also realistically be. Also why she doesn’t really have a huge male fan base. Nothing wrong with any of that at all, that’s just how marketing works.

I do have to wonder though, how long her “manic pixie dream girl” act will last. Dancing awkwardly around and screaming “OMG that’s so magical!” at every mundane thing might work for you in your 20s, but it’s hard for anyone to still seem cool doing that into their 30s, even if you have a young female fan base.

Anyway, I say she runs 2:31.

Is Alexi Pappas Update? wrote:

vivalarepublica wrote:

Let's not put Katherine Switzer on the same level as Pappas. What Switzer did required a lot more courage than creating some mediocre art. Yes, creating art and putting it out there and opening yourself up to criticism takes some courage, but not the courage that has made Switzer's story still resonate decades after it happened.

Please, Switzer has piggybacked and upstaged Bobbi Gibb at every damn opportunity. Without Gibb's action and publicity, it's questionable Switzer would have followed suit. And Switzer did it without really facing immediate and direct anonymous feedback, and yeah I remember the foiled assault from an elderly Jock Semple, which is what AP gets on social media. No doubt its as bad as the response here x100.

I feel like an idiot for not knowing about Bobbi Gibb. You are right, she definitely is not as much of a self promoter as Switzer. Seems like she has less of an outgoing personality.

Regardless, I stand by my statement that Switzer's act required more courage than the artsy, quirky, bravey act.

If you're an American citizen you should not be representing and competing internationally for another country. Period, end of sentence.

Secondarily, her physique is unattractive. She's probably trying to overcompensate for this with an annoying personality. Fail!

If you're going to be promoting yourself on social media don't expect everyone to adore you.

M.A.G.A...

Exactly. I'm not convinced she's truly intending to race, however.

hatehatehatehate wrote:

yes, yes wrote:

Perhaps for an inoculated subject like you she could change her gender when the pacer drops off the course. What a progressive moment.

I'm inoculated because I'm not bitter enough?

This ain't a civil rights issue and she ain't a victim. It's not 1942 and there hasn't been anything unusual, courageous or ground breaking about a woman speaking her mind for a very long time, at least not in the USA. Your response indicates that you have been well conditioned to see an oppressor under every bed. Lighten up and eat some greens from your sandwich bag.

Set up a nice cheering section on Halsted and Jackson in Greektown, which is at 16.5 miles. Table of fries and Coke, no Pepsi. Annual lame local TV coverage can add it to the staples such as Boystown, Pilsen and Chinatown.

Best call was a couple of years ago, "...they are now crossing the Hudson RIver..."

Is Alexi Pappas Update? wrote:

Biggest waste of an Ivy education since the BroJos, all of this could have been achieved from attending any given art school. Not hating on her at all, there are plenty of attention whore scenesters in places like Boulder with a hella less talent and accomplishment, they DREAM about having half as many social media followers as Bravey Alexi has. Not like she invented this niche profession either Katherine Switzer has pretty much perfected it and she did it via old school media.

https://twitter.com/AlexiPappashttps://www.instagram.com/alexipappas

BTW WTF was she doing at the WINTER Olympics? There to cheer on the Greek skiers and bobsled teams? JFC

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bk7_ErElBai/?hl=en&taken-by=alexipappas

This is WRONG Tirunesh Dibaba is NOT RUNNING CHICAGO, She is running Berlin.

yes, yes wrote:

hatehatehatehate wrote:

I'm inoculated because I'm not bitter enough?

This ain't a civil rights issue and she ain't a victim. It's not 1942 and there hasn't been anything unusual, courageous or ground breaking about a woman speaking her mind for a very long time, at least not in the USA. Your response indicates that you have been well conditioned to see an oppressor under every bed. Lighten up and eat some greens from your sandwich bag.

I’m pointing out the well-known response here to outspoken women that are good at marketing themselves - haters. Your rant on seeing oppression everywhere is not only an illogical inference but frankly irrelevant.

Will Alexi ever surpass this performance?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1hWGjnHGpY

Clock’s tickin’ wrote:

I do have to wonder though, how long her “manic pixie dream girl” act will last. Dancing awkwardly around and screaming “OMG that’s so magical!” at every mundane thing might work for you in your 20s, but it’s hard for anyone to still seem cool doing that into their 30s, even if you have a young female fan base.

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It's still working for SFH and she's 50.

mermaid_fan wrote:

Will Alexi ever surpass this performance?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1hWGjnHGpY

hahahaha

OMG, magical BJ! wrote:

Clock’s tickin’ wrote:

I do have to wonder though, how long her “manic pixie dream girl” act will last. Dancing awkwardly around and screaming “OMG that’s so magical!” at every mundane thing might work for you in your 20s, but it’s hard for anyone to still seem cool doing that into their 30s, even if you have a young female fan base.

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It's still working for SFH and she's 50.

SFH has been able to hold the spotlight for, well, other reasons.

hatehatehatehate wrote:

yes, yes wrote:

This ain't a civil rights issue and she ain't a victim. It's not 1942 and there hasn't been anything unusual, courageous or ground breaking about a woman speaking her mind for a very long time, at least not in the USA. Your response indicates that you have been well conditioned to see an oppressor under every bed. Lighten up and eat some greens from your sandwich bag.

I’m pointing out the well-known response here to outspoken women that are good at marketing themselves - haters. Your rant on seeing oppression everywhere is not only an illogical inference but frankly irrelevant.

Your ramblings are all Greek to me.

The Cheezeborger wrote:

Set up a nice cheering section on Halsted and Jackson in Greektown, which is at 16.5 miles. Table of fries and Coke, no Pepsi. Annual lame local TV coverage can add it to the staples such as Boystown, Pilsen and Chinatown.

Best call was a couple of years ago, "...they are now crossing the Hudson RIver..."

That's hilarious because the NYC Mary does not even cross the Hudson River.