Letsrun, please sponsor Rochelle Kanuho

You say you disagree and then conflate makers with entertainers. Craft is not the same as skill, either. Performance entertainers have to engage the public, that's their sole audience of consumers. Pro athletes who are part of far larger teams in far more visible sports and making way more income than any distance runner know and do this, it's a mistake to assume the latter should be exempt. Sure, skip it if you want to live even further below the poverty line. For the vast majority of alleged pro runners it's not a real profession, anyway.

Rochelle actually does have a social media presence which demonstrates a sense of humor:

https://twitter.com/rochellekanuho?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Ackley wrote:

Rochelle actually does have a social media presence which demonstrates a sense of humor:

https://twitter.com/rochellekanuho?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Runners with a sense of humor? I thought they didn't exist. I would follow if I had Twitter.

I did no such thing. I compared one sports person with another sports person. one of them concentrates largely on her training and preparation for performance, whilst maintaing a very limited social media presence, the other relied and depended upon the sole fact that she was considered attractive, which afforded her a level of media and fan approval that bore little if any relation to her performance as a sports person. any distinction between "makers and entertainers," exists exclusively in what passes for your mind.

this is why you do not understand what I said. I do not consider sport to be a part of the entertainment industry. a sports person is not, to me, an "entertainer," flogging a product. I do not judge an athlete by how, "entertaining," I found their performance and I am not one of those dullards whose only level of interaction with the sport is how fast a race was run.

the idea that a race has been put on merely to make money, to generate television revenue, to increase shoe sales, to produce clicks on online adverts, the concept of runners in races wearing singlets advertising their allegiance to their sponsor, all of these things are utterly repugnant to me and they have precisely zero to do with the reasons I watch, coach, officiate at and participate in track and field athletics.

point 1. I didn't say they should be exempt. I said I didn't think it was right.

and point 2, which seems to have zoomed way over your head, is that the subject of this thread, Rochelle Kanuho, is not a pro athlete. she has no allegiance to anyone or anything and does not have to adhere to your, or anyone else's, idea of how a pro athlete is supposed to behave in the modern, online, Twatbook-obsessed world of sports as entertainment for brain-dead tv-lounge lizards.

and, vivalarepublica "I would follow if I had Twitter."

you don't need Twitter. you can bookmark it as favourite in your browser.

cheers.

seconded wrote:

For real. If Letsrun is all about supporting the blue collar runner, it doesn't get more blue collar than this.

well, start the go fund me. I got $20 on it.

You can now return to your normal wanking schedule in the alternate reality enjoyed on Letsrun.