Many tears.
Reckless surf tabloid BeachGrit’s twin desks were sent reeling, this morning, after one of its principals was publicly accused of continuing a disturbing pattern of wanton sexism. The latest in a series of offending posts was carelessly uploaded to the website’s lightly trafficked Instagram account and featured a sixty-ish-year-old woman in a full wetsuit and jacket getting extremely barreled on a nine-foot longboard, blown out with the spit and sent into the atmosphere where she rode an airplane before doing a hands-free full rotation.
The Committee for Equity in Women’s Surfing, with a mission of supporting access, inclusion, equity and equal pay and promises to be “new wave of professional surfing,” immediately pounced on the ugly piece of content, declaring, “Per usual @beach.grit is disrespecting women. What will your daughter think @surfjournalist?”
Surf journalist Chas Smith had not considered asking his young daughter before sharing the video and immediately apologized to her for perpetuating such bigoted trash and promised he would be better.
Many tears flowed thereafter.
Smith thought about calling his older daughter, who plays soccer for Vanderbilt, to apologize to her as well, hoping beyond hope that she hadn’t seen the thoughtlessness which might have led her to believe she could do backflips to the atmosphere and ride an airplane after scoring a goal but couldn’t handle any more shame.
He is currently seeking help.
imagine what the league of women’s voters did to old Ed Buchanan? in Hooterville, of all places!
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I think the monty python clip about the womb belongs here AND there…
dix
I left mine a phone message with that question…probably won’t bother calling me back…
a limited liability corporation, which has now become a trend, will also set up a trust for its readers so that they can individually and/or collectively fight for the right…(what are we fighting for?)
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The 1st motion of every meeting is scissoring.
Equity or death!
My 7 year old daughter loves BG. Especially the cat memes. I would get her a T shirt for Christmas if they had them. The video in question is definitely corny but not offensive. Stop yer baiting.
The patriarchy?
Perhaps the woman having fun in the little Tikgram video should be attacked by Chas’ critics for daring to be a woman in a silly video making fun of both herself, and surfing (and possibly airplanes?)
BTW her surfing is lot more convincing than mine will be next time I go out.
This is why we can’t have nice things!
This is all so fucking absurd. I love it! Good disco tune tho.
Hilarious! Transgender people always make a great punchline regardless of their relevance to the topic!
Isn’t the topic gender? Women… equity in surfing… Chas’s daughter…etc etc?
Ill give them some kudos if they can show me a committe for equity in garbage collection or truck driving.
Whats that? You only want equity in good jobs not the shit ones? Gimme a break.
Agree.
If you’re not willing to attempt to address the issues with problems you have little interest in or understanding of, you shouldn’t be allowed to do anything.
Without googling, who was the first female world surfing champion?
My point was – and is – that whataboutism isn’t really a valid response to a legitimate concern in any situation. Your response: NO GOOGLS!!1: WHAT ABOUT 1SFT NO. ONE WORLF SURFBLOARD CHAMPION – AND FIMALE?
Drunk posting isn’t a good look. What would your 2000 followers think?
“What would your 2000 followers think?”
I think the best jokes should be completely inscrutable to the person they’re directed towards.
Im beginning to think you dont even surf.
I’m beginning to think it’s important to you that people know you surf. It’s not 1990. No-one cares.
Ill tell you what no one carrs about: the committee for equity in surfing.
2000 followers! How long are you going to keep wasting your time? Youre not very good at this.
… wait, so your whole “thing” is that I’m somehow part of this group? Woof. I wish you’d bothered to explain this sooner.
Vanderbilt, the Harvard of Tennessee!
Q: Why do birds fly upside down over West Virginia?
A: There’s nothing worth shitting on.
CSU Bakersfield, the WVU of California?
Scholarships funded by JDs.
Was the tap at (2:08)?, or (2:09)?
Also, hot women dont have sll these hang ups. Quit complaining.
Hold on…
A: I doubt the creator of that little video was Chas, who merely reposted it.
B: BG does not, as an editorial principle, post endless “articles” of pretty young women wearing teeny swimsuits as per standard female objectification industrial practice.
C: Articles about women’s surfing on BG are never dismissive but supporting, unless a clear case of Byron-esque over-privilege and ditzy lifestyle influencer crystal-waving bullshit.
It’s impressive that BG has such an influence on a wimmin (with wife, two rescue rabbits, and two cats in a house on a bluff overlooking Mavericks) to the extent that she follows (stalks ?) BG and aggressively comments on a harmless video of a grandmother riding from the barrel to a plane and into a magnificent twirl…
They aren’t doing much to help the stereotype that woman like to bitch and moan.
Pulling out my hanky to dry my eyes!
Time will tell whether your actions match your words.
You sure are spending a lot of time talking about something you seem pretty desperate to give the impression you don’t care about.
Well I just don’t know how you say I’m giving the impression I don’t care. I have apologized to one daughter, thought about apologizing to the other one, wrote a story and am seeking help.
Your response to my response to your response to a comment on an entire article you wrote about a twelve word Instagram comment took more effort than the twelve word Instagram comment. Giving the impression you don’t care is the last thing you’re doing.
Seems like a variation on the ol “I wouldn’t join a club that would have me as a member” trope.
I do care! You are disenfranchising my care feelings.
Turning a twelve word comment posted somewhere into a Beachgrit article is the Beachgrit business model.
Fuck hey haha.
I’m here for you
btw, Vanderbilt is a great school. Congrats to her!
Do the work, Chas
but, ballet…”Dad, you have to stand on your tippy-toes and bend and swirl…kinda like the lady in the video.”
If life’s a waste of time, congrats on wasting it on your 2000 insta followers.