Sheila Reid is losing It - Hilarity Ensues - Says switch from 1500 to mile is "male nostalgia"

No kidding.

"I'm trying to even but cannot rn"

"old, white dudes are draining my energy rn"

There's no long history of women's distance running in general so of course there's no history in the mile. Women's running isn't popular whether it's 1500 or mile.

HA! Nice find and nice illustration of the types of "issues" social justice warriors and third wave feminists waste their time on.

Libs bein' libs.

Anyone else see the twitter blowup sheila reid is having right now?

https://twitter.com/shewolfruns/status/677950230440992768

What a PC nut. Get over it.

She's certainly entitled to an opinion. What's more anyone complaining about anything PC is obviously a dolt.

That said, 4:30, what?! 4:20 ought to be the women's equivalent. Not nearly as many women have done it, but it's a great standard like 4:00 was some 40 or 50 years ago.

How about NCAA bring back the 1500 for Oly years?

Speaker of Hard Truths wrote:

No kidding.

"I'm trying to even but cannot rn"

"old, white dudes are draining my energy rn"

There's no long history of women's distance running in general so of course there's no history in the mile. Women's running isn't popular whether it's 1500 or mile.

She tweeted that? Along with the whole garbage sexist theory? She's an entitled brat. Discriminating against old people too. She probably thought she would be praised and get attention for herself by tweeting this. Not quite young lady. Watch her cowardly delete all her tweets on this soon

She doesn't have good arguments for her position.

Mastercova 4:12 mile; Sheila Nojuice Reid 4:27

Speaker of Hard Truths wrote:

No kidding.

"I'm trying to even but cannot rn"

"old, white dudes are draining my energy rn"

Link to aforementioned tweet -

What does being white have to do with disagreeing with her? Or old?

Answer - nothing.

Witness the effects of third wave feminism.

ClonedDuck wrote:

Anyone else see the twitter blowup sheila reid is having right now?

https://twitter.com/shewolfruns/status/677950230440992768

What a PC nut. Get over it.

There is some truth to her tweet. She is Canadian and has grown up on the 1500/3000 distances. The 4-minute 1500 is her benchmark not the mile.

The mile is a novelty event. That's why they don't run it in the Olympics.

Hello, Good Morning. wrote:

ClonedDuck wrote:

Anyone else see the twitter blowup sheila reid is having right now?

https://twitter.com/shewolfruns/status/677950230440992768

What a PC nut. Get over it.

There is some truth to her tweet. She is Canadian and has grown up on the 1500/3000 distances. The 4-minute 1500 is her benchmark not the mile.

The mile is a novelty event. That's why they don't run it in the Olympics.

But that wasn't her point, as evidenced by her writing:

"This isn't marketability it's male nostalgia."

and

"old, white dudes are draining my energy rn"

Her point was "fvck men" and "fvck old white men".

She's annoying and irrelevant, cute dimples though. After college she just sorta fell off horribly. You would think somebody who man handled Jordan Hasay and Emily Infeld in college would have a better career them, but nah Infeld has a world medal now and Reid desperately clinging on to fleeting youth and her twitter account to feel special.

reader of the forums 2.0 wrote:

What does being white have to do with disagreeing with her?

Because if you are East African, the 4 minute mile is as relevant as the 2 minute 800 meter barrier.

I gotta side with the old white dudes on this one

She should go back to flippin' Canada if she doesn't like it. I don't throw in my worthless two cents about what temperature scale they use to prepare maple syrup. She's gross anyway.

Typical runner or sockpuppet wrote:

reader of the forums 2.0 wrote:

What does being white have to do with disagreeing with her?

Because if you are East African, the 4 minute mile is as relevant as the 2 minute 800 meter barrier.

Good thing the NCAA isn't an east African association.

reader of the forums 2.0 wrote:

Typical runner or sockpuppet wrote:

Because if you are East African, the 4 minute mile is as relevant as the 2 minute 800 meter barrier.

Good thing the NCAA isn't an east African association.

The question was why the mile was relevant to white dudes, not why East Africans should switch to the mile.

phidipidippides wrote:

She should go back to flippin' Canada if she doesn't like it. I don't throw in my worthless two cents about what temperature scale they use to prepare maple syrup.

You beat me to it!

the 4 min mile isnt special when high school kids can do it.

Reader of forums 3.0 wrote:

reader of the forums 2.0 wrote:

Good thing the NCAA isn't an east African association.

The question was why the mile was relevant to white dudes, not why East Africans should switch to the mile.

No.

The question was: "What does being white have to do with disagreeing with her".

There are plenty of non white American kids who run middle distance track events and would find breaking 4 minutes in the mile a challenging task. So the comment of the person who replied about east Africans was irrelevant. Nothing about being white is relevant to disagreeing with her.

Further, I'm not sure what "East Africans should switch to the mile" even means. The NCAA is an association. East Africans are people from east Africa.