"This won’t undo the damage they have already done to their company. It will only make trans activists hate them too."
Three days ago, a post on the Instagram page of Rip Curl Women celebrating the pioneering trans-surfer Sasha Jane Lowerson went viral after anti-trans-women-in-sport activist Riley Gaines slammed Rip Curl as “crazzzyyyy”.
“You mean to tell me that 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 as a women’s ambassador?” wrote Gaines.
Calls to boycott Rip Curl grew from a murmur to a raw.
Skateboarder Taylor Silverman joined in the chorus, unsparing in her criticism of the New Zealand-owned company.
“According to Rip Curl this man is a ‘waterwoman’…reality is he’s just a mentally ill man making a complete mockery of actual women and “The “community” is so supportive that Rip Curl had to disable the comments!”
For context, Sasha Jane Lowerson is a talented strawberry blonde goofyfooter of middle age who created history last year when she added the Western Australian women’s longboard trophy to her mantlepiece where it sits alongside the trophy she won when she was still Ryan Egan.
“Trans-girls aren’t going to take over the world, we just want to be included, we’re humans too,” Lowerson says. “I’ve been hiding in this male shell up… for 42 years. To still be made to be that guy that I’m not, it’s shattering,”
Very inspirational and pioneering and very much on the prevailing progressive zeitgeist.
Rip Curl had joined two other Australian swimsuit brands in a pivot to the queer market describing their trans 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.”
After the post was disappeared late last night skater Taylor Silverman delivered her coup de grace,
UPDATE- it appears @ripcurl has removed this post of a man dressed up as a woman from their Instagram ripcurl_women. This won’t undo the damage they have already done to their company. It will only make trans activists hate them too. https://t.co/eDf9EHb4Ok
— Taylor Silverman (@tmsilverman) January 28, 2024
“This won’t undo the damage they have already done to their company. It will only make trans activists hate them too.”
Rip Curl can’t win for losing, no?
Meanwhile, for the first time I can remember, Rip Curl are selling their suits, which are some of the best in the game, at wildly discounted prices.
Flash bombs at half price? Those buttery two mm short-sleeved steamers at two hundred Australian shekels?
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The cunts are still selling them in the US for 600$
Im 188 cm maybe I could buy one of Sasha’s. Im used to the ballsack smell and we are the same size. Im frothed.
I find it difficult to try to differentiate between who is trolling who on this and other comment sections, basing my observation who is ‘liking’ or ‘disliking’ who’s comments. I was always under the impression that Chief Hot Stuff, formerly known as “Hot Stuff,” formerly known as ‘Bexy’ and whatever other monikers he used, was the biggest troll but I find myself agreeing with many of the things he says. But the amount of sarcasm and rhetoric used is astounding. So hard to keep up!
I just dont like being too obvious
ALWAYS
Jeez zuz everyone going the jugular today I noticed. Cos this day won’t come round for another 4 years or whatever?
Oh, that is NEVER going to happen.
In sport, XX should not equal XY. In anything else, whatever.
Better than ok, just trying to relax on reacting to click bait.
They Are F ing LadyBoys, and let em compete against each other, over a hill and far away from me and may the best ‘man’ or chick with a f ing big boner win or whatever it is they do to each other.
Interesting that the chick has a “f ing big boner”, in your scenario. Do you think about big boners a lot, or do average sized ones do it for you as well? Scared of trans women cos you wanna fuck them is very common with conservatives. Embrace it, son, and go cop a D.
u r a tranny bitch clown
You are horny for people that you profess to hate, so who’s the actual clown here.
Quit taking it in da ass kook
Sebastian Coe former Olympic champion and now the President of International athletics said simply this. He will be fighting for the future of women’s sport personally. Without concentrated pushback women will be overwhelmed and never win another Olympic medal.
RIP Curl.
Nobody’s arguing they aren’t human, or that they shouldn’t be allowed to compete, just that they shouldn’t compete as members of the opposite sex due to the advantages male puberty brings them. (The same physical difference is why so few trans-men compete in sports against biological males.)
Seeing so many people speaking out to protect fairness in female sports is indeed inspirational. Someone competing unfairly in order to feed their need for validation is not.
almost exactly 6 years ago, walked into WRV in VB middle of day, midweek, at a low point, temporarily wetsuit-less and very cash poor due to some life issues. There was a beautiful hooded 5/4 Rip Curl hanging on the rack. Sticker price pretty far out of my range at that moment. No one else in shop, so worker guy just hanging around. Suit had a tiny little divot on the chest, looked like someone had dinged it on the edge of a table, but nowhere near a puncture. Shop guy was like, oh man, that one’s damaged, I’ll give it to you for $80, plus will throw in a jar of that wetsuit repair stuff and a bar of wax for free.
Not on the east coast anymore, but forever grateful to that guy and the shop — and that suit was worn constantly and in some of the best + coldest conditions I ever encountered in the mid-atlantic. Performed like a champ through it all.
Long story short, unless there’s some sort of mass murder situation, I’ll be RC and WRV for life.
There is perfectly good reason why rip curl drop there trans athletic water women.
Sasha was attacked by a shark-
https://www.smh.com.au/nati…
GW male or GW female?
I often wonder what old submarine captains do for work once they leave the forces?
Work in surf retail and constantly yelling “ dive, dive, dive” at the sharemarkets?!? https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
HOLY TITS YOU PAY THAT MUCH FOR THINGS IN AUSTRALIA?
Wait, rip curl ( Kathmandu) sack Sasha because she’s Transgender?
There’s so many laws against that even in bum fuckkkk backwards Australia!?!
I’m going check there share price.
Woohoo- sinking faster than you yyou can say boycott Rip curl in a board meeting!
Taylor Silverman isn’t a girls name..
I like Sarah Silverman…
Neither is Ryan Egan.
I had always figured that the surf/skate world would have been a safe haven from the ‘trans’ ideology but now I see that nothing is safe. woe is me.
Transworld Sport is going to make a comeback
so is Playboy…and Playgirl…https://wonderclub.com/images/PLAYG…
http://www.waves.com.br/wp-…
Even sports like powerlifting where it would seem impossible for anyone to seriously argue in favor of allowing males to compete as “women” aren’t safe havens from it anymore.
The skate world has been wildly more accepting of trans folk and progression in general than the surf world. So many redneck fucks in the water. These “provocative” stories, Dez, and to a lesser extent Chas, are serving up, and the comments btl, are a sad embarrassment.
Tell you what’s embarrassing…that skateboarding!-!
You’re damn right
We can call each other Nigerians!!
If do that It entitled me to get a free house in Melbourne ?
Asking for Hamas labor voting family of 345
In sunshine
Coolaroo .
Nigers
Homies
…are all over the commercials with a variety of hair and clothes styles and are buying & selling everything from insurance to burgers to pharmas…even cute white girls. Wives, girlfriends, baby mommas, mistresses and concubines are furious…Ever seen a Mexican?
Ive been inside one and one only
legal dept checking….
yes, and I’ve seen a few Mexicant’s as well
big wednesday…got a dunebuggy…you go live from Ehukai~
you can find me hiding behind the stone, or lounging atop it like a goanna lizard in the heat of the day.
Standing up for this attention seeking, talentless loser, seems like a weird hill to die on.
I dont think hes standing up for Sash at all
Perhaps Islam is right. Maybe we should kill all “trans people”.
thats a threat. i am reporting you as cancel culture demands
Go back to the cinema sites that you usually frequent, couch potato.
Keeps getting crushed in skate comps by trans dudes then takes it upon herself to cast hate at all trans people across the globe. Fckn sore loser.
Saying that biological males who’ve gone through male puberty shouldn’t be allowed to compete in the women’s division due to their huge physical advantages isn’t “casting hate at all trans people.” I also wouldn’t consider it being a “sore loser” if an athlete objected to losing out because an opponent was allowed to have an unfair advantage.