Why Melissa Bishop doesn't comment

Bishop just makes this whole issue even more apparent. If the rest of the field was even slightly tom boyish people wouldn't notice as much.

Instead you have the height of feminine appearance as the first apparent female.

Well, I just became an anti-Melissa Bishop fan.

She doesn't say anything because in Canada she could go to jail for two years for hate speech.

Nuck Fike wrote:

Well, I just became an anti-Melissa Bishop fan.

Alright, watch this one then. If it doesn't make you a fan if hers nothing will. Rooting for her to be the best

She has such a beautiful stride.

Makes me want to go down to the track right now!

She ran so well in Rio. Goddamit.

The trans-genders are a new mascot of the Left. If Bishop rocks the boat, then radical Left Wing orgs like Media Matters will hunt down and harass all of her sponsors. She will be labelled a homophobe and a hater.

Very sad.

falconrunner22 wrote:

The trans-genders are a new mascot of the Left. If Bishop rocks the boat, then radical Left Wing orgs like Media Matters will hunt down and harass all of her sponsors. She will be labelled a homophobe and a hater.

Very sad.

Sadly, this is true. SJWs are unscrupulous humans looking for any opportunity to personally attack and harass anyone who is seen as different in their eyes. They are a clique of cyber bullies who try and pin the bad guy image on the person or group they attack, thus their bullying aspect is ignored by them and their shallow supporters.

She probably doesn't say anything because, unlike the majority of letsrun posters, she has a modicum of class and doesn't have any desire to insult her rivals.

Sponsors could have a lot to do with it. They probably told her what to say or not say. This is a touchy subject, so I'm sure Nike had their PR opinion. Maybe they'll pay her extra or give her more opportunities b cause they feel sorry for her, that she lost to essentially legal cheaters. But ultimately she could have lost millions of dollars from the 4th place versus getting a gold against an all natural women field.

"Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced a bill that would criminalize anti-transgender speech, with violators receiving up to two years in prison."

http://www.theblaze.com/storie...soon-face/

She is not free to express how she feels.

falconrunner22 wrote:

The trans-genders are a new mascot of the Left. If Bishop rocks the boat, then radical Left Wing orgs like Media Matters will hunt down and harass all of her sponsors. She will be labelled a homophobe and a hater.

Very sad.

You have no idea what left wing is, which is sadder.

Why Bishop keeps quiet wrote:

"Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced a bill that would criminalize anti-transgender speech, with violators receiving up to two years in prison."

http://www.theblaze.com/storie...soon-face/

She is not free to express how she feels.

Just so the normal people on the board aren't fooled by trolls, there is no way this law would have any application to commentary on the women's 800.

This law is very narrow Google Zundle in Canada to see the kind of things hate speech laws are meant to address.

Bish can say what she likes.

To the moron that keeps using the term SJW and the same moron who keeps referencing hate speech laws, time for bed ok little buddy? You are too stupid to be trusted to choose your own bedtime.

Hope tomorrow is not as pathetic as your today was.

z.,xmc/.zx,cm wrote:

To the moron that keeps using the term SJW and the same moron who keeps referencing hate speech laws, time for bed ok little buddy? You are too stupid to be trusted to choose your own bedtime.

Hope tomorrow is not as pathetic as your today was.

z.,xmc/.zx,cm wrote:

Bish can say what she likes.

She really can't though. I'm certain she hates that fact that the IAAF/CAS allows intersex athletes to compete unconditionally, and that this cost her a gold medal.

Yet, if she expresses any degree of frustration with the situation, she'll be besieged by an army of Internet keyboard warriors, which could in turn jeapordize her sponsorships. Her words will be taken out of context, she'll be called sexist, racist and a sore loser, as Jozwik and Sharpe were.

You'd have to be incredibly naive to think she can comment at all on this. The only thing she could say is to welcome her new intersex competition and pretend like she's ok with it, which, she is not going to do because that would be a lie. So she had to refuse to comment on it.

It sucks what the IAAF has done to women in track.

You have to be incredibly naive to assume that Bishop feels exactly the same way as you do about this issue.

Maybe she's not saying anything because of sponsor issues. But maybe she's not saying anything because she's not quite as horrible as you.

I definitely don't think she feels the same way about it as I do. I'm positive that she's substantially angrier than I am about it.

You must have like zero empathy if you can't envision what it's like to be in her shoes, to train so hard for years and have your opportunity taken away by the cowards at CAS and IAAF.

And I think you also have to be dense to think otherwise. If she thought it was a good idea to have intersex athletes competing in women's track, she would've come out and said so. There is no reason for her not to comment if that's how she feels. But she doesn't feel that way. She's furious and rightfully so.

The letter why wrote:

You have to be incredibly naive to assume that Bishop feels exactly the same way as you do about this issue.

Maybe she's not saying anything because of sponsor issues. But maybe she's not saying anything because she's not quite as horrible as you.

So you had no problem with that 800 race at the Olympics? You were happy with it?

Karma Police wrote:

So you had no problem with that 800 race at the Olympics? You were happy with

Dude, not a single one of these SJW trolls cares one iota about the race. Anyone who cares about the racing was appalled with the "women's" 800m. The people who think it was right for intersex athletes to compete have probably never even watched an 800m race before.

Stop being a troll. The Canadian laws are used to stop any type of speech the government does not like:

"The tribunal recently fined comedian Mike Ward $42,000 for telling a joke that some people found offensive."

Bishop is not free to say. Canada does not have any tradition of freedom of speech.