"Megan’s 'I’m a pro athlete' line on the pod absolutely came across as a rant—but a deserved one. She was giving voice to a truth Rebecca Solnit has been circling for decades: that women’s achievements and expertise are routinely erased, doubted, or redefined until they vanish into thin air.
The irony is that her postpartum story—the pelvic-floor scare, framed with wryness and endurance-athlete logic ('this is my Kílian dislocated shoulder moment')—wasn’t weakness at all. It was resilience refracted through humour. Yet in this thread, the same moment gets downgraded into a punchline about anatomy. Solnit would call it a textbook case of how women narrating their own bodies is tolerated only until it becomes inconvenient, at which point the chorus says: 'sit down, be small.'
So yes, Megan ranted. But a rant can be diagnostic. It named the casual erasures she’s been subjected to. And the fact that even here, her words were instantly bent into caricature is less an indictment of her tone than a confirmation of her point."
