Heat of the year!
A few days back all hell broke loose when a pretty girl claimed she was monstered by a jacked gym-stud while filming a few cutsie workout routines at her local health club.
Jessica Fernandez, who identifies as Colombian and Nicaraguan and lives in Southern California, has a real healthy 56k followers on Twitch and 10k YouTube subscribers.
A video where she says a lifter stared at her “like a piece of meat” was viewed three million times.
“This guy kept making me extremely uncomfortable at the gym,” she wrote. “This is why I’ll end up crying on stream. I feel so grossed out at times with the amount of sexualisation I experience. Hopefully this spreads awareness for girls who experience this type of treatment at the gym.”
Given the buildup, the video was a real non-event. Lifter looks over a few times and, a little later, offers to help put the weights back on the bar.
Still, Fernandez said the guy “triggered my flight or fight and response to previous traumas… I was completely fine until he followed me to my squat rack in the corner of the gym…I can see how this makes me look like I have an inflated ego but I am an attractive girl in a beauty standard sense and I get extremely sexually harassed online and it makes trusting random strangers that approach me trigger my trauma which is why I respond this way.”
While fans were quick to back her up (“I don’t understand how hard it is to mind your business, people aren’t at the gym to get stared at or get hit on makes no sense”) majority opinion swung towards the demonised man.
“Girls like this go to the gym just to chase clout and be toxic. This man did nothing wrong. And she’s hiding comments calling her out. REALLY weak for someone who hits the gym,” wrote another gal.
“I watched the whole video. The guy glances over a few times, probably wondering why she’s recording herself,” wrote right-wing Daily Wire host Matt Walsh. “Then he comes over and offers to help her rack the weights. She declines, he says, ‘Oh OK’, and walks away. The end. She’s the problem here, not him.”
Women are harassed in gyms and it needs to stop, but you are not one of them. An act of kindness or a glance does not make you a victim. pic.twitter.com/34g9265KXb
— Joey Swoll (@TheJoeySwoll) January 21, 2023
Fernandez, realising the implications of publicly throwing a man under a social media bus, eventually, and with haunted eye penance, apologised.
“I will be coming out with a response to this whole gym situation in a few days. I’m sorry,” wrote Fernandez.
Whereupon Kelly Slater, a man whose Twitter profile warns “I make fun of things, point out absurdities, and tackle serious subjects like the cutback”, delivered the stunning coup de grâce, that famously cool, logical voice wrapped around a heady sense of masculine superiority.
“In a few days? You checking with your lawyers and publicist? Just apologize to the guy in person.”
Touché etc.
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So she’s voiced an apology of sorts: https://nypost.com/2023/01/…
One of the few times I can’t criticise KS.
I, unfortunately, clicked the play button on the video. The best part was the text overlay reading, “He’s going to jail for staring at an underage 21 year old!”
Genius and gym start with the same letter. So does the phrase, “go ____ yourself.”
Good take by Slater, this and giving up his spot, starting to make me hate him less.
1. NonJohn has tried to pull the PP off, it’s too well attached.
2. Influencers are gross
3. Kelly is gross. How is he still so good at Pipe?
Hope everyone picks him in surfival and he loses to jordy in rd 3.
She should never leave home. Works for me. Everytime.
Jessicunt
She also has an OnlyFans or some derivative.
Meanwhile…can you please put star in quotes.
She’s a legend in her own mind…no one else’s.
Ah the joys of surf-adjacent news.
Pip was out shredding Haliewa yesterday so he’s already looking ahead to Trestles.
next up…Pip vs Pipe. nothin like training for big lefts on small rights.
Why won’t he take up intensive pipe training with some pipe specialist, like some before him did, and better himself as a professional surfer is simply beyond me.
I think he absolutely rips though, just needs to get rid of that *
ADS posted up with Jamie to learn the inner workings Pipe.
If you want to be a well rounded champion then that’s the kind of stuff you need to do.
I can recommend going to the gym in Colombia, its fucking awesome the amount of eye candy. Even my wife will text me while im doing cardio to come down to the weights area and look at the 🔥
Colombia is, by far, firing.
He probly fuked her in the tranny dunnys
Here’s a recent photo of the Coffee sisters…
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…about to make a harrassment complaint.
Where’s Bobby Sue?
Carn Straya!!
Eyes on the prize!
The six prizes or the three prizes?
(And if you’re Greek there are three bonus prizes…)
Running to the comment section to see if DR has commented to get a phone number from them
How many only fans subscribers does she have ?
Seriously though…
Remember that time BG helped Beth Greve out in the gym?
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#metoo
I’ll send this to a female friend who remains shocked after meeting Kelly at bells one year
Did Kelly try and give her the what for?