You don’t need a PhD in Critical Race Theory to notice that a lot of the knuckleheads talking shit about Simone Biles for dropping out of the Olympics are white dudes who couldn’t do a single cartwheel to save their lives. Piers Morgan. Charlie Kirk. Ben Shapiro.
Oh, and this dude, Doug Gottlieb of Fox Sports, who seems mad that Biles’ mental health isn’t bad enough to keep her from sports altogether.
“Let’s not mislabel a mental health episode, where you don’t perform well because of the immense amount of pressure over being judged as the greatest of all time,” he declared, “and a true mental health issue where you shouldn’t be competing in sports.”
Alas, CNN’s Brianna Keilar happened to notice this trend of “ignorant white dudes talking shit about a black woman who survived sexual abuse at the hands of former team doctor Larry Nassar and went on to become the greatest gymnast ever.” In a segment on the network she tore into Morgan, Kirk, and Gottlieb for their terrible takes, noting that all of them could learn “a thing or two … about mental toughness” from Biles.
The CNN chyron read: “White male talking heads question courage of Simone Biles.” Which seems like a pretty accurate description of what was going on.
But Gottlieb is having a little fit over it.
I dunno, dude. Perhaps they used that chyron because “white male assholes question courage of Simone Biles” wouldn’t have made it past the network censors.
Note: If you decide that for some reason you need to criticize Simone Biles, this clever little decision tree on McSweeny’s will let you know if you can.
H/T — Thanks to Mediaite for covering this controversy so fully.
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@contrapangloss
Yeah. Simone Biles gave up the chance of personal glory (as if she needs more) in favor of her own health and safety, and for the sake of her teammates. That’s the kind of grace we SAY is an American value, but her critics don’t seem to value her decision. Plus Sunisa Lee isn’t getting all the praise she deserves for winning gold for an Olympics event that was getting even more attention than usual, which is another shame on us.
sup I heard there was a verbose troll, I came to ask if there’s need of a bartender on the normie train.
By the way, how’s things ?
@Victorious Parasol
There’s something amazingly selfless about realizing one is at their own limits and passing the torch on. Which is what Simone did. She gave someone else a chance when she felt she couldn’t do her best. She considered what was best both for herself and the team as a whole. That’s beautiful and it’s wrong she’s being attacked and berated for it.
Then we have Sunisa Lee. She should be getting cheered in the streets. She’s the classic example of an underdog story. She was on the bench as a second stringer. Not considered good enough for the main line up to compete. Then the supernova shining star stepped down and she got her chance. What did she do? She brought home the gold! That’s like a magical scene out of a movie! Yet it happened in real life!
That’s the kind of story the right wing say they love. Apparently they love it a lot less than having a chance to attack a woman, especially if she just happens to be black.
Oh yay! another troll
@ProNEETheus
Dude your the one making noise and speaking nonsense. you read like a high school students English assignment. But like a really arrogant one who think’s their Shakespeare because there in an emo stage.
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I wanted to tell you guys how my job is going. This really big ass fish in performance tank thought my mono-fin was a snack and tried to take a bite out of it. They hire ups are also having us change out costume swimming tops because one of the other rather busty swimmers had a wardrobe malfunction right in the big part of her performance where she’s front in center right near the glass. The children’s entertainment became pg-13 rated real fast.
The expression “talking heads” always seemed funny to me, so the headline seems particularly droll.
And the reporter who’s taking issue with it doesn’t seem to see that it’s not attacking him personally, but rather pointing out the fact there’s a pattern. Or to see, going back to his original comment, that “mental health issues” can be a range of things. It doesn’t mean you’re automatically bad at everything. Jeez, he seems like he’d be a headache to talk to.
@Elaine the Witch – That made me laugh, but I’d freak out at the fish attack. Glad you were all right!!
As for the gymnastics story – damn, I wish I’d watched that. I was too busy a) proofreading (which I should get back to) and b) worrying too much (which I shouldn’t).
@epitome
It did scare me a little. luckily a lot of fish just aren’t that smart. you just kind of have to smack him and little and push them away when they do stuff like that. It’s not like dolphins. They don’t have us swim with dolphins anymore because a few years back the dolphins thought the humans with the fish tails were pretty hot and kept trying to mate. That’s really hard to explain to little kids.
@Elaine : dolphins trying to have sex with women is a recurring problem from what I have seen. Never heard of them trying that on men ; if they specifically recognize women from men I would find that quite creepy.
@Ohlmann
I’ve heard of human men trying to fuck female dolphins but the dolphin wasn’t into it. Not the way male dolphins try to have sex with human women anyways.
Ohlmann,
There are anecdotal reports of wild male dolphins attempting to put the moves on male scuba divers.
They’ve also attempted to drown a 10 year old, and bludgeoned a swimmer to death.
Dolphins can be jerks.
Usually: smart, cool, friendly.
Sometimes: murderous mobsters of the sea, out to kill porpoises and huff pufferfish.
@contrapangloss
When something gets smart it gains the possibility to be a jerk. The fish that bite my fin was just a cute potato with eyes basically. I just rolled him away from me.
I was reading over on Gymnastics Tumblr and apparently her landing from the vault was a lot more dangerous and uncontrolled than it looked to the average eye as well, and anyone remotely less skilled would have shattered a knee. Whatever’s up with her head, it COULD genuinely injure her, and badly.
I wonder if the useless SWM commentators/cry-babies and edgelords are more or less annoyed that the Black woman gave up her gold-medal-winning spot to… the Hmong-American woman who won the gold medal.
Also Simone sat right there and cheered on ALL the other girls.
@Elaine: Your job sounds pretty cool, bitey fish aside. I feel sorry for the busty woman who was given an inadequate uniform, but glad you’re all getting more covered.
The wire right next to the telephone pole I can see has several birds sitting on it. Doing nothing. Just staring. 99% sure they’re mourning doves but they aren’t saying anything.
I guess our latest troll is announcing he’s the opposite of a winner, since the part of his name he capitalizes means “not in education, employment, or training”. So is he living off other people’s tax money, or in mommy’s basement?
@GSS ex-boob
Funny that you should think that I, a comfy NEETzschean, should be beneath the lot of a pathetic grouping of neurotic wageys due to my lifestyle. There is an infinite amount of time for creative and intellectual endeavors amongst one of my disposition; you all, on the other hand, find yourselves in a position to get up every day and be berated by high-risk-high-rewards stimulation-seeking giga-normies who want what they want and they want it NOW. You all are abused by people of lower IQ’s and weaker spirits, all the while, you are cucked by your employers, you are rent-cucked by your landlords, tax-cucked by the two-party government, etc. How does it feel, to simp all day for cash, only for it all to go to high-status normies who own more than you’ll ever get in 3 lifetimes over, even though you already produce it?
You are cucked:
Don’t lie to yourselves, wage-cucks. You’re not the ones in enviable positions.
@G. A. Collins
The fact that you blather about projection (an entirely normal psychological trait amongst humans, so you know) only compounds what I was saying earlier about normies being a predictable bunch of sheep. What’s next? Are you gonna post some XKCD comics and accuse me of suffering from the Dunning-Kruger effect?
@ProNEETheus
oh good, the prose pussy is back to give us a bunch of worthless paragraphs. dude go home. your fucking boring.
@GSS ex-noob
Yeah all the gals I work with have been super nice. One of them even helped me record one of our shows so I could sent it to my husband. He told me I looked like I was living a little mermaid fantasy the whole time because it has been a lot of fun. Their gonna give us tops that are more like a sport bra now because what we have are these swim tops meant to look like shells, like what Ariel wears in the Disney movie. That doesn’t work when you have DD breast like my new friend does. The company that made the swim tops didn’t even make them in her size so she’s been having to wear one to small and it just snapped under the strain. Luckily small children don’t really care about boobs that much. It was really the parents that got upset.
@ProNEETheus
Sorry sugar, only man who gets inside my body is my husband. Why don’t you go cry back to loneliness of your cold bed.
Bragging rights to whoever thinks of the best possible definition for “giga-normies.”
@Viscaria
My guess that it’s anyone who has a job, friends, a spouse, pets, and a home because pissy prose troll is upset that they have none of those things and really wants to be a white republican billionaire.
Gigs-normies:
Adult humans who have written between 1,000,000,000 and 999,999,999,999 words in a word processing program over the course of their lifetime.
These are not to be confused with giga-nerds, who have acquired (through skill or purchase) at least 1,073,741,824 units of some form of in-game currency in any 1 video or computer game, over the course of their lifetime.
(I hate that these are white collar focused, but I can’t imagine the carpal tunnel or tennis elbow from using any hand tool 10^9 times…)
@ProNEETheus
So, living in mom’s basement then. You are at least helping a bit with food and rent, right, uberman?
Human time is explicitly finite, yet even when my sorry ass spent several years NEET at my mom’s house due to burnout from gradschool with uncontrolled depression and anxiety-fueled IBS, I was still able to spare a few hours each week to handle most of the cooking, housework, and yardwork. Still not a well functioning human, but part-time design/assembly work at a small scientific instrument business means I’m not a complete leech like most glibertarians/randroids and able to help more with upkeep and upgrades to the property.
Which of your creative and intellectual endeavors have actually progressed beyond a bit of gas passing by your ears on the way out your ass and into an object or process possessing value to others? Art? Music? Literature? Science? What, uberman, have you accomplished? What have you brought us puny mortals from the realm of the gods, and how are you able to be so long-winded about it while bound to that rock with those eagles always eating your liver? Smearing a bit of barely comprehensible shit on the internet doesn’t put you any higher than a dog dragging its ass on the carpet.
@proWhosis
Most of what you write is utter nonsense, so picking just one thing to mock was difficult.
The bit below has me giggling.
Both “among” and your florid preference “amongst” refer to several objects. While you can sensibly refer to “one among many” (even “one amongst many”), your choice would only be made by someone with no grasp of either style or grammar.
@ProNEETheus, the
You know as much about my career and finances as you do about my neurology and psychology. Zero.
@ProNEETeus : outside of the general gripping about how edgelords like you tend to be very unoriginal, I would also point that A – a lot of people here do actual stuff against exploitation and B – in your sentences, normies, chads, simp, and IQ all litteraly are meaningless. And no, I won’t let you the benefit of the doubt and won’t believe you actually know a sense to them that make sense in context.