“Peace out Rip Curl. What a tragic end to an iconic brand”
The iconic wetsuit brand Rip Curl, once a brave little two-man company that kicked off the whole surf industry biz in 1969, flew its queer flag high yesterday with a post celebrating the transgender longboarder Sasha Jane Lowerson neé Ryan Egan.
Rip Curl joined two other Australian swimsuit brands in a pivot to the queer market describing their ambassador as, “West Australian waterwoman who loves the freedom found in surfing, disconnecting from the mainstream, and the feeling of dancing on constantly changing waves… It’s a state of mind, always being ready to try something new, curious to seek out knowledge and learn the rules – and break them.”
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Nine months ago, Sasha Jane Lowerson made history when she became the first transgender surfer to compete at a WSL event, the Manly Classic, a one-day longboard contest.
You’ll remember Sasha Jane Lowerson, of course.
She is a robust forty-six-year-old strawberry blonde with terrific arms who blossomed into chemical-induced womanhood in 2020.
Following news that Rip Curl had dumped the Christian amputee Bethany Hamilton, herself an arch critic of transgender gals in women’s sports, for Sasha Jane Lowerson raised the hackles of the American swimmer Riley Gaines.
Riley Gaines is a 23-year-old former competitive swimmer from Tennessee who has made a name for herself as an advocate for women’s sports.
She has been vocal her concerns regarding transgender athletes in women’s sports.
In 2022, while swimming for the University of Kentucky in the 200-yard NCAA freestyle championship, Gaines tied for fifth place with the University of Pennsylvania swimmer, six-foot-one trans gal Lia Thomas.
Lia Thomas, who used to be known as William Thomas, was a competitive swimmer on the men’s team but began the chemical transition to the sisterhood in 2019, and a couple years later joined the gal’s team.
When Riley Gaines saw the Rip Curl pivot she lit up on X writing,
“You mean to tell me Rip Curl dropped Bethany Hamilton for opposing men surfing in the women’s league then picked up male surfer who surfs in the women’s league. Crazzzzyyy.”
You mean to tell me @ripcurl dropped Bethany Hamilton for opposing men surfing in the women’s league then picked up male surfer who surfs in the women’s league as a women’s ambassador?
Crazzzzyyy 🤯🤯🤯 pic.twitter.com/GMvM5qfP0q
— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) January 25, 2024
The post lit a fire.
Almost half-a-million views, 18k likes, 4k reposts and 1400 comments almost all supporting her posit that trans-gals don’t belong in women’s sports.
Ian Cairns, big-wave, gun-toting superhero, wrote: This is a slippery slope for Rip Curl,
@wsl and @ISAsurfing Haven’t they heard the news that DEI is on the way out? Glad I don’t have a daughter surfing in West Oz longboard events. Not cool.
Others wrote:
Guess I’m not wearing my Rip Curl rash guard anymore
Rip curl and all their sister brands are absolutely dead to me.
I’ll never buy another product from them under any circumstances.
Fatal marketing mistake @ripcurl. Won’t be buying your wetsuits or clothing anymore
No one with an IQ above 30 believes that it’s fair for biological men to compete in Women’s Sports, Riley. So, the question is, WHY does the “progressive”  Left hate women so much. And the deeper question, WHY aren’t Liberal women defecting en masse?
This is gross. Company owners need to control their urge to sell out to a woke corps and hold the ship with integrity. The people working at these companies deserve better than garbage being shoved down their throats by non caring corps pushing ideology.
How are the advertising team not getting fired for this , how many companies have been damaged and they still use the larping blokes in their campaigns. I thought they had to know trends , not watching hard enough
If true, everyone should boycott @ripcurl until they go bankrupt. No redemption for this.
RIP…RipCurl. You deny, betray and ultimately erase women with this gesture.
I’ll never buy any of your products again.
Bethany will always be the ambassador of women’s surfing in my book. The WSL is the new Bud Light. Go woke Go broke.
When Bethany made her stance on the trans-issue public, wise old Kelly Slater waded into an overflowing pond with some sage-like advice: “Make a trans division and we don’t have this confusion.”
Takeaways: Is this gonna be Rip Curl’s Bud Light moment or do you think the Rip Curl customer is thrilled beyond measure with the company’s bow to the transgender lobby?
You know my stance on she-dick.
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Women should not be playing sports. That’s why we have a low birth rate
So which personality disorder do you have?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.go…
You were born a man. You can never be a woman. You can only lie to yourself. Reality doesn’t believe your lie. Science doesn’t believe your lie. No sane person believes your lie.
Get help before you kill yourself
You’re truly an ignorant fool. You can’t recategorize the truth of DNA.
You leftist dimwits don’t get to redefine your way out of reality.
There’s no such thing as “trans people”. There’s only mentally ill men with gender dysphoria who need serious psychological help, and mentally ill women with gender dysphoria who need serious psychological help.
Indulging mental illness does not help.
Do you tell the schizophrenic on the street corner that they’re not mentally ill? If you did, that would be cruel.
Grow the fuck up and face reality.
some folks are stuck, dna wise neither one nor the other…….. they really should switch.
I already transitioned to a man.
So you’re saying you deny science AND live in your mom’s basement.
Take that skirt you’re wearing off, and put on your big boy pants, cause reality is heading your direction fast.
F RIP Curl, Real chicas were Not born with big penis.. They are, in reality called Lady Boys, and that is World Wide.. Sausagefest Sword Fencing and Sloppy Fudge Packing is More Like Their Sports.
Isn’t Del a pseudonym for twat?
follow the chain of command with all these companies going down this path. All the big funds involved. Blackrock, vanguard, statestreet etc all the davo crew who are also pushing climate change inciting world wars by funding both sides (always have) people like george soros backing all these types of agendas like BLM etc causing divide. Divide and conquer is as old as time. While we are distracted with this rubbish ummmm why no public arrests with epstiens mates? Whats going on with charles? Whats going on with the border? hoe come trump is in court every other week but biden(s) arent? you think its ok to sent BILLIONS to Ukraine while actual americans sleep in the gutter. They can spend money to bomb somewhere far away but cant house and feed their tax payers? Civil war incoming.
Riley’s post is getting a lot of attention thanks to Sasha. I’m sure Riley appreciates that.
NO FUNDS AVAILABLE
Spent all your money on hookers and blow?
And the rest you just wasted?
blow, make the call, then chicken out is what really happened. met some interesting people…russians & injectors of H. scary to look back upon!
This is the first post of yours I don’t get. I have software
Scary Russians (totally plausible)
or scary injectoze?
save lives…proposed….
https://scontent-sjc3-1.xx….
good bye surfboarding. hello prideboarding.
Why not waterboarding?
Yeah! Why not waterboarding? Prideboarding might just be the name of the X-Games next year.
xx vs xy FFS. What a bunch of tits to talk like this.
I live around bunch of confused lads like Sasha. Poor people feel neglected by relevance so they decide to create some by claiming flat earth stuff but about their demand to go into any bathroom they want to shit out yesterdays dinner. The struggle.
Riley is fire, Id smash.
This dude should be sponsored by BetterHelp. He needs some help it looks like.
Riley Gaines support for her anti trans stance.
It all makes sense now. No wonder those rip curl wetsuits always felt tight in the crotch area.
You gotta get their new girl’s wetsuits, they’re a bit roomier down there.
Hmm , will be an interesting Monday at RC HQ!
Who was the marketing genius who decided that Sasha would sell more product that Bethany H…..sales /sales /sales in a depressed market …..Sasha ‘s demographics look a little on the lite side!
*estrogen lite
Perhaps more important from a business perspective is the ATTENTION factor.
Rip Curl is getting a lot of attention for this marketing move and that is something that matters – they initially got the same attention from “Shark Girl” Bethany Hamilton many years ago, but that appeal faded and her extremist, bigoted and ultraconservative Christian religious beliefs proved her to be more a burden to the company than an asset.
Rip Curl dropped Bethany – she didn’t quit, they cancelled her contract.
Better to have a tranny on the programme than a brainwashed religious bigot.
yeah they say any publicity is good publicity…..
Big difference about a story of a young woman having her arm bitten off by a shark and her recovery to learn to surf…to Pipe……vs…..a bloke becomes woman and wants to compete against women.
Beth quit….RC in damage control ,and this week will RC will see how their Wokeness is viewed by the market?
Calls a man a man = “brainwashed religious bigot” lol. Thanks for the laugh.
You just know rip curl are gonna troll everyone by giving him a wildcard into Bells.
haha – main event for sasha!!!! especially as no steph and carissa
Derek never one to miss a good ladyboy story
The wsl deserves this anyhow