Predictable wrote:
She doesn’t want to have to answer the question ‘Should the Olympics go ahead?’ Using mental health to protect herself from a difficult question is disgraceful. Obviously she is terrible at press conferences and is worried she might say something that upsets her sponsors in Japan and potentially loses her a lot of money. She should be banned.
You think she should be cancelled because she's doing something you don't agree with?
Typical. Don’t acknowledge you were wrong about the tournament vs player longevity point and instead bring Trump into this.
Trump has nothing to do with this. Please get over him.
The point of a business is to provide a good or service in exchange for another good or service. Their job isn’t to worry about if you are happy at home.
Please learn to take personal responsibility instead of asking others to kiss your booboos
Grand Slam Organizers know they FUBAR'd this and are in damage control mode.
Double-speak spin here:
https://www.cp24.com/sports/grand-slam-leaders-pledge-to-address-naomi-osaka-s-concerns-1.5451588
Yawn^2 wrote:
Typical. Don’t acknowledge you were wrong about the tournament vs player longevity point and instead bring Trump into this.
Trump has nothing to do with this. Please get over him.
My original post was sarcasm... bro...
The more you double down, the more I laugh.
Ernest wrote:
Grand Slam Organizers know they FUBAR'd this and are in damage control mode.
Double-speak spin here:
https://www.cp24.com/sports/grand-slam-leaders-pledge-to-address-naomi-osaka-s-concerns-1.5451588
QED
It wasn't going to be workable to let her beg off of interviews because she is the biggest draw in tennis other than Serena. She's ranked #2. If you let the best players off, no one will do it. Sure, the international press asks a lot of dumb questions and occasionally an obnoxious or hard-hitting one, but that is or was how we found out what the athletes thought about. I can see that many here don't care about the mental health of athletes. If I were the coach of one of the young stars, I'd tell them to stay off social media, because that is hell on athletes. It is all the time and there is always criticism no matter what they do or don't do. For instance, Osaka is criticized now for her silence as a consequence of wokeness, whereas when she was expressing her wokeness, she was criticized by the same people for it.
the clear answer wrote:
Predictable wrote:
She doesn’t want to have to answer the question ‘Should the Olympics go ahead?’ Using mental health to protect herself from a difficult question is disgraceful. Obviously she is terrible at press conferences and is worried she might say something that upsets her sponsors in Japan and potentially loses her a lot of money. She should be banned.
You have just shed light on why she suffers from anxiety and depression. She just wants to play tennis and do some fashion stuff on instagram on the side. But she is going to get grilled by the French media (almost said press) about the Olympics at every presser and can potentially cause a huge uproar in Japan if she says the wrong thing or speaks her mind in stead of sticking to a script crafted by a publicist. She is just a tennis player and shouldn't have to carry the Tokyo games on her shoulders.
So she can answer questions about blm but not the olympics? Either she has anxiety or she doesn’t. You can’t pick and choose.
The more you try to express yourself, the more I laugh.
Yawn^2 wrote:
The point of a business is to provide a good or service in exchange for another good or service. Their job isn’t to worry about if you are happy at home.
Please learn to take personal responsibility instead of asking others to kiss your booboos
I'm not sure what personal responsibility has to do with it. If I get cancer I don't expect to be told I need to be tough and just get on with it.
And businesses provide goods and services for PEOPLE. It's a human-based endeavour, we don't run an economy to please the gods or because it's a law of physics. If providing these goods and services become too difficult for people it ceases to be positive for people.
She has now backed herself into a corner where she has to answer even more questions. Bottom line is she got too big for her britches and tried to wag the dog.
Just make a rule that you have to speak to the press or forfeit. It won't be long before she crumbles just like she did when she quit this time
Yawn^2 wrote:
So she can answer questions about blm but not the olympics? Either she has anxiety or she doesn’t. You can’t pick and choose.
? Pretty sure it doesn't work that way.
She has anxiety. End of question.
Yawn^2 wrote:
this is what I have wrote:
Sucks to see that tons of LRCers will go after a young athlete who has said that she struggled with depression/anxiety before ... Saying that she makes it up, she's dramatic, she should drop her contract , grow up etc... Almost like you guys enjoy seeing her fail :/ disappointing but not really surprising lol
Life can be hard for everyone, no matter their wealth/fame etc... and you can't really understand someone's mental health struggles unless you go through it (and even then, there are different degrees). It would be better if the first reaction was to have empathy instead of calling her a drama queen and going on about the contract ..
How am I supposed to empathize with a millionaire who doesn’t want to talk to a reporter because of a weak anxiety excuse? Kinda hard to walk in their shoes no?
Glad you worked it out with your boss, but had your company not been accommodating, I would not criticize them for firing you if you did not fulfill your job obligations, but would perhaps criticize them for not being flexible.
My boss doesn’t make a few of my coworkers give public speeches/presentations because they have major social/public speaking anxiety. No one bats an eye.
Nevertheless, “Weak anxiety excuse”... that says everything we need to know about you. I hope you don’t have children.
Good for your boss. If I ran a company, those people and you wouldn’t be in it. If the French open wants to accommodate her they can do so. But you want to inmates to run the prison.
Tatar wrote:
Yawn^2 wrote:
The point of a business is to provide a good or service in exchange for another good or service. Their job isn’t to worry about if you are happy at home.
Please learn to take personal responsibility instead of asking others to kiss your booboos
I'm not sure what personal responsibility has to do with it. If I get cancer I don't expect to be told I need to be tough and just get on with it.
And businesses provide goods and services for PEOPLE. It's a human-based endeavour, we don't run an economy to please the gods or because it's a law of physics. If providing these goods and services become too difficult for people it ceases to be positive for people.
If you got cancer and your healthcare plan provided through your job didn’t cover it, your company has ZERO responsibility to care for you. Work isn’t day care. Businesses provide goods and services for profit. It’s what drives the economy. The more difficult to produce, the higher the cost. How do you not understand this?
hdi37ejqodhwu wrote:
Just make a rule that you have to speak to the press or forfeit. It won't be long before she crumbles just like she did when she quit this time
^That is what HAS happened.
You live in the perfect world for you but still want more. Think about it, she's not participating in the tournament and was given a fine by the organizers.
You just don't like the idea that people exist that oppose treating people like that.
Dwightarm wrote:
Yawn^2 wrote:
So she can answer questions about blm but not the olympics? Either she has anxiety or she doesn’t. You can’t pick and choose.
? Pretty sure it doesn't work that way.
She has anxiety. End of question.
Okay, so if we assume she does then where was the anxiety when she was speaking about sjw issues? You can’t be afraid of heights when looking off a skyscraper but be fine with heights on the side of a cliff.
Her “anxiety” clearly ebbs and flows which means it is fictional or at the very least exaggerated.
Yawn^2 wrote:
Dwightarm wrote:
? Pretty sure it doesn't work that way.
She has anxiety. End of question.
Okay, so if we assume she does then where was the anxiety when she was speaking about sjw issues? You can’t be afraid of heights when looking off a skyscraper but be fine with heights on the side of a cliff.
Her “anxiety” clearly ebbs and flows which means it is fictional or at the very least exaggerated.
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