Molly Huddle calls out misogyny on letsrun.

You are all a bunch of wankers hanging out in your mom's basemen wrote:

lets go brandon wrote:

Hillary wannabe.

Hillary Bor? Molly looks nothing like him!

Someone responding to Molly's post on Twitter. This person nails it:

https://twitter.com/Badgergrrrl/status/1448011014436425728

Right? Just so painfully accurate

It's the wild west on these boards. Racism, Sexism, Trolling with Politics, and all forms in between are injected. The moderators just don't have the time to look over every single post and lots get through (or they are being willfully ignorant).

It's devolving and it's just a matter of time before sponsors take notice. Matter of time before the Running community takes notice and ban Letsrun from getting media credentials, and so on.

Top thread in Letsrun right now:

"Apparently It’s Very Hard Not to Sexualize Female Athletes"

Why do some randos on letrsun get to discuss female anatomy? It took YEARS for the Hot Or Not thread to be removed. Why?

I guess it has come to the point where I used to root for Molly. I wish her well and enjoyed watching her career unfold from her high school days in Elmira, to her college running at ND, and finally as a successful pro. I find myself very much opposed to the politics of many elite runners and Hollywood stars. I actually am surprised how liberal most of the elites are.

As much as I disagree with the idea that these boards are toxic and exclusionary that Molly puts forth, your reactions are just as ridiculous as those of the people cheering her on in the comments.

Some people here don’t realize that not everyone has been desensitized to everything because they spent their adolescence/adulthood on internet forums. Forum culture is probably just as alien to someone like her as Arab or Chinese culture (though the difference is in a different dimension). Her reaction is normal.

The reason letsrun has the reputation it does is because most runners are normal people, they stumble upon the boards and see something that isn’t normal. Getting upset about them getting offended is a weird reaction, it borders on narcissism.

I thought that post was hilarious.

But I also think Dave Chapelle is hilarious.

Something tell me Molly and I have different worldviews.

I think it's hilarious when people poke fun at men as well, just to be fair. We're all flawed. Men and Women both of glaring flaws and it's funny to point out. The end.

GodDoesNotExisz wrote:

It's the wild west on these boards. Racism, Sexism, Trolling with Politics, and all forms in between are injected. The moderators just don't have the time to look over every single post and lots get through (or they are being willfully ignorant).

It's devolving and it's just a matter of time before sponsors take notice. Matter of time before the Running community takes notice and ban Letsrun from getting media credentials, and so on.

Top thread in Letsrun right now:

"Apparently It’s Very Hard Not to Sexualize Female Athletes"

Why do some randos on letrsun get to discuss female anatomy? It took YEARS for the Hot Or Not thread to be removed. Why?

Are you aware of that freedom of speech thing? Nothing should be off limits as long as it’s running related. It’s a private site so the owners can do as they please with the content but I think too many running related threads are already removed based on being considered ‘over the line’. If you can’t handle it, no one’s forcing you to read. Now all the political garbage and Corona BS, should be immediately removed as it’s not relevant to the subject matter pertinent to the intentions of the site.

ihatejoe wrote:

I actually am surprised how liberal most of the elites are.

Why? Elites are 20s/30s, most are college-educated, lots of them are women (unlike many sports), large percentage are PoC. And they spend their time training with athletes from around the globe.

They're not conservative-type people.

Just as we harshly criticize athletes, they in return can call out bad behavior. I say it is all fair.

Iron Bars wrote:

Just as we harshly criticize athletes, they in return can call out bad behavior. I say it is all fair.

Molly can say as she pleases but it’s just a window into her controlling nature and childishness wanting to cancel a website that allows different (and very valid) points of view than her own.

Vacilated wrote:

Iron Bars wrote:

Just as we harshly criticize athletes, they in return can call out bad behavior. I say it is all fair.

Molly can say as she pleases but it’s just a window into her controlling nature and childishness wanting to cancel a website that allows different (and very valid) points of view than her own.

Still free speech. Just ignore and continue trolling. :]

Iron Bars wrote:

Vacilated wrote:

Molly can say as she pleases but it’s just a window into her controlling nature and childishness wanting to cancel a website that allows different (and very valid) points of view than her own.

Still free speech. Just ignore and continue trolling. :]

Another Level wrote:

I feel like some people just don’t get the joke. Or maybe they don’t understand that people post things for a reaction not because they are serious.

Well thats a relief. I really thought the crazy covid denying trump loving antivaxxers were serious.

ihatejoe wrote:

I guess it has come to the point where I used to root for Molly. I wish her well and enjoyed watching her career unfold from her high school days in Elmira, to her college running at ND, and finally as a successful pro. I find myself very much opposed to the politics of many elite runners and Hollywood stars. I actually am surprised how liberal most of the elites are.

The elite athletes you reference positions' are not liberal - they are moderate. Conservatives have allowed a relatively small group within the conservative population to weaponize the conservative narrative in this country with extremist views. You have main streamed David Duke. Congrats!

Look at your post objectively - you are claiming to abandon your support for a female athlete simply because she called this MB for what it actually is - a safe place for small minded, insecure racist and misogynists.

Kobbs Hessler wrote:

Why is she so obsessed and upset by comments made by random Internet trolls on an obscure running website?? Who cares. Stop reading LR and go somewhere else. Problem solved. People who lean right politically know that CNN and MSNBC are all lies all the time, yet they don't get all outraged and whiney. They just read/watch more accurate sources. Grow up. And Molly, by all means, don't prove the trolls right by acting like, well, nevermind. Congrats on the baby.

You just can't help yourselves can you?

EXACTLY!

Get rid of the non running stuff.

The other stuff can stay.

She's not wrong.

You are all a bunch of wankers hanging out in your mom's basemen wrote:

lets go brandon wrote:

Hillary wannabe.

Hillary Bor? Molly looks nothing like him!

Someone responding to Molly's post on Twitter. This person nails it:

https://twitter.com/Badgergrrrl/status/1448011014436425728

lol@ this. if we want to be real, there are plenty of boys who couldn't crack their d1 top 7 that would wipe the floor with the very best females the US has ever offered. This is weak smack talk.

Jamin, of all people, would be an olympic medalist if he was female.