johnny leggowanker wrote:
this is the most ridiculous take I've ever heard. it's not exactly the same but it reminds me of this insanity -
https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2020-08-18/padres-fernando-tatis-jr-grand-slam-baseball-unwritten-rulesit's is fu@#@#%@#%@#$ing MARATHON. anyone running anything close to shalane, regardless of gender, trained their ass off. you are dimly aware you're alive at the end of 26 miles, whose to say he even knew who she was?!
I don't care if it's shalane or Jesus or bob Kennedy or Marion jones or Norah jones, the presence of a celebrity is not going to make me not leave every ounce out on the course.
If this is something you complain about, you are the worst, and you don't understand running.
With all due respect, this topic is discussing the issue in all races, of all distances, and I don't think you appreciate quite how disruptive a middle ranking male can be in a close women's finish if he is obsessed with beating women and ends up getting in the way. I even had one push me out of the way in the finishing strait when it became very narrow, before the finishing line, when I was racing another woman a few seconds ahead of me, whom I might have otherwise caught. I've had a few men catch my heels in road races too because they insist on running right behind me.
Its a bit amusing how all these men, who have never had it happen to them because they are men, are trying to tell women what it is like to be a woman and have that happen to a woman, and then dismissing women's expressed opinions because it either doesn't agree with their narrative or some other women came along and said it hasn't bothered them.
Imagine if a man came along and said it really bothered him witnessing it. You would be stuck between following the male opinion and disagreeing with some of the women!