Quick, someone remind me why I care one bit about Alexi Pappas and Mary Cain?
Quick, someone remind me why I care one bit about Alexi Pappas and Mary Cain?
John Wesley Harding wrote:
both of these women already have a reputation for seeking attention, which they haven’t been able to earn through recent running success.
Mary Cain has a reputation for attention seeking? Huh?
RunMore wrote:
Quick, someone remind me why I care one bit about Alexi Pappas and Mary Cain?
You don't have to jagaloon, you can just be a good person and keep unkind comments to yourself.
I don’t get why there is so much animosity towards alexi pappas. She’s a 30 yr old liberal arts major who has published a book, directed and acted in two movies, and ran in the freaking olympics! She seems pretty damn successful for 30 yrs old.
You guys saying she is attention starved act like she’s putting out home videos like Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian or tweet storming like Donald Trump.
somanysh1ttalkers wrote:
I don’t get why there is so much animosity towards alexi pappas. .
The dream for most people isn't to run in the olympics. It is to run for your country in the olympics. Running for some random country that gives you citizenship isn't a good look for anyone. I totally get why the Kenyans switch countries for cash. But I can't imagine many of them are really proud of having to do it.
haha YOYO wrote:
RunMore wrote:
Quick, someone remind me why I care one bit about Alexi Pappas and Mary Cain?
You don't have to jagaloon, you can just be a good person and keep unkind comments to yourself.
No, I think I will say exactly what I want on a public message board.
adsfdasfasfsafadfa wrote:
somanysh1ttalkers wrote:
I don’t get why there is so much animosity towards alexi pappas. .
The dream for most people isn't to run in the olympics. It is to run for your country in the olympics. Running for some random country that gives you citizenship isn't a good look for anyone. I totally get why the Kenyans switch countries for cash. But I can't imagine many of them are really proud of having to do it.
They probably don't have the luxury of worrying about national pride or any government's flag. Doubtful it's an issue at all for their loved ones.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOmQP9guIl0standwithbabbitt wrote:
embf wrote:
I cannot believe the amount of pure misogyny on this discussion post.
#whitepeopleproblems
#CallousBigotry
What a f*cking dumpsterfire of a website (letsrun.com)
jabouko wrote:
HELLO have NONE of you faced severe depression before? forget being womenhaters, are yall really not taking depression seriously? cmon. pathetic
Many people here deal with and/or have dealt with depression, but they don’t feel the need to milk it for publicity.
rojo wrote:
2) Pappas is the one who put Cain in touch with the NY Times for the expose on Salazar.
You can read the lengthy article by David Alm on their friendship and struggles below. I enjoyed it, particularly the part of how Mary reveals she loved how Alexi asked her about what she wanted to major in, what her love life was like, etc. when everyone else only asked her about running.
https://www.runnersworld.com/runners-stories/a35120434/mary-cain-alexi-pappas-friendship/
What is the first thing you learned?
Alexi is more accomplished than Jordan Hasay.
That said both will go on to be scandalous PE teachers fondling female student-athletes they teach and coach.
"The dream for most people isn't to run in the olympics. It is to run for your country in the olympics. Running for some random country that gives you citizenship isn't a good look for anyone."
You're kidding with this, right? What "most people" do YOU know?
Issue I have with Mary Cain is that her MeToo timeline doesn't add up. I compare it to Jennifer Lawrence distancing herself from Harvey Weinstein AFTER he is condemned. She had to find something to distance herself from Salazar.
Spot on. The embedded idea that women are intellectually , professionally, morally, and in all other ways inferior to their male counterparts. Look out. They'll be letting us vote someday....
83hw8fh wrote:
rojo wrote:
2) Pappas is the one who put Cain in touch with the NY Times for the expose on Salazar.
You can read the lengthy article by David Alm on their friendship and struggles below. I enjoyed it, particularly the part of how Mary reveals she loved how Alexi asked her about what she wanted to major in, what her love life was like, etc. when everyone else only asked her about running.
https://www.runnersworld.com/runners-stories/a35120434/mary-cain-alexi-pappas-friendship/What is the first thing you learned?
Are you serious? Did you read the link you clicked on to get here?
somanysh1ttalkers wrote:
I don’t get why there is so much animosity towards alexi pappas. She’s a 30 yr old liberal arts major who has published a book, directed and acted in two movies, and ran in the freaking olympics! She seems pretty damn successful for 30 yrs old.
You guys saying she is attention starved act like she’s putting out home videos like Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian or tweet storming like Donald Trump.
Made the Olympics? Lol what a joke. She’s American. She didn’t come close to making the olympics for the US. It’s embarrassing she chose to run for Greece. How about let people actually from Greece and live there, run for them.
Also all of her mental health sh*t is beyond annoying. I’ve personally dealt with it much more severely than her and when I read about her struggles, it’s rather annoying. She hasn’t dealt with real mental health issues which is going to piss people off but not all struggles with mental health are the same and her “struggles” really downplay true mental health issues.
Hater gunna hate
A friend who works in publishing passed on an advanced copy to me because she knows that I love everything running. I wanted to like it but it’s just really badly written, and she comes off ad not really caring or knowing very much about running. I share the young death of a parent, and that definitely effects your life forever, and her story is unique because she’s done a lot of different things, but she hasn’t dedicated enough of her self to any one thing to come off as particularly knowledgeable or like an insider about any of them. The whole book just made me think of my friends whose CVs are their reason for living, or who do everything for social media. It’s really depressing. I probably just expected too much of it, so if you do read it just think of it as a celebrity memoir and not a book that cares about running.
briswiss wrote:
somanysh1ttalkers wrote:
I don’t get why there is so much animosity towards alexi pappas. She’s a 30 yr old liberal arts major who has published a book, directed and acted in two movies, and ran in the freaking olympics! She seems pretty damn successful for 30 yrs old.
You guys saying she is attention starved act like she’s putting out home videos like Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian or tweet storming like Donald Trump.
Made the Olympics? Lol what a joke. She’s American. She didn’t come close to making the olympics for the US. It’s embarrassing she chose to run for Greece. How about let people actually from Greece and live there, run for them.
Also all of her mental health sh*t is beyond annoying. I’ve personally dealt with it much more severely than her and when I read about her struggles, it’s rather annoying. She hasn’t dealt with real mental health issues which is going to piss people off but not all struggles with mental health are the same and her “struggles” really downplay true mental health issues.
It sounds like you haven't really dealt with anything. Most people who have addressed mental health problems don't spend a lot of time gatekeeping other people's struggles.
Also, like the poster said, she ran in the Olympics. Your handwaving doesn't change that. You can argue what that is worth to compete for Greece.