Is surfing a Democrat or a Republican?
Now, I don’t have to tell you that we live in hyper polarized times. Those on the left, haughty and cocksure, growling at those on the right, angry and befuddled. Folk generally sticking with people who share the same bent, fraternizing in similar spaces where challenges to an overarching worldview are non-existent. Echoes bouncing off digital walls.
Except, that is, for BeachGrit where people from all walks come together and share in the simple joys of Kelly Slater.
Well, it appears those days are over. In an overnight call to action, feminist hero Lucy Small has declared this, and other, surf communities must once and for all sign surfing up for a political party. “Surfing is political whether we like it or not,” she plainly stated. “So it’s up to us to choose what those politics are.”
Further explaining, she wrote, “I’m working on this theory that basically everything we do is political (I did not make that up) but the access we have to the beach, to surfboards, to travel, to hotels, to surf media, to social media, to surf films, the health of the ocean we surf in etc is all political and our surfer dollars and surfer voices are always contributing to something.
And continued, “I have been doing some deep deep thinking about all these things lately, reading some books and watching lots of films, trying to understand where surfing is situated in this political universe. Its role in history has mattered a lot and it continues to matter now. So yes, I do understand surfing as a political thing and us surfers are little political beings riding our little political wet energy mounds. Would love to hear your thoughts in the comments and welcome the opportunity to learn more :).”
I honestly have zero idea how “everything we do is political” or what utterly myopic thinker came up with that as the governing principle for life but here we are, I guess. The moment of truth. Is surfing a Democrat? A Republican? Labour? Comités Jeanne? Khmer Rouge? Shining Path?
Other?
Please be a good sport, once we decide, and accept the group decision. Surfing certainly doesn’t need any more splinter factions.
Is there a nihilist, masochistic, committed salt-head party? Oh, yeah, it’s surfing. It’s like thanksgiving. No politics or religion in the lineup. Motion dismissed.
I’m pretty much indifferent to both sides. They’re both shit.
But Lucy can fuck right off. I’m sure of that
… in the late 80’s Regan era, in my ultr-conservative U.S./ Jersey Shore suburb, the privileged kids all considered themselves Rastafarians… being clueless wearing those rasta shirts all the now-swallowed whole surfwear companies made, when our parents weren’t looking seemed to solve everything… can we throw rastafarianism into the hat here for discussion too?…
Yes please. Way better than rich punkers buying expensive clothing from the cool mall and customizing them in the large bedroom with scissors, safety pins, and a lighter. Rastafarianism!!!!!
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Righty tighty lefty lucy
Poor baby girl hails from a family named for their tiny brains. The world isn’t fair! Shouldn’t she be in Gaza doing the Lord’s work?….more as the story deteriorates….
Why exactly do we care if Lucy Small has been doing some deep thinking?
Splinter or splitter?
Group or factions?
Deep deep thinking
Sprinter
Lucy looks like a scary version of Wednesday from The Adams Family
Like Wednesday, if Wednesday were not a conscious satirical archetype.
Lucy is an unconscious self-satirical archetype. But she’s one among thousands of those.
You could make surfing, however you perceive it, political, but why the fk would you want to? If you’ve ever tuned in to Parliament Question Time, all you ever see are those cnts squabbling. Surfing transcends all that shit.
Jas it been awhile?
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Hope you and yours are ok
You took too schlong to comment.
Xox
Poor girl.
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Nah. Fundamentally God just gives you free will. The free will to set yourself up for success. And the free will to fuck your own shit up.
I thought all Lucy Small did was “wake up and think about Gaza” – ?
She cut that in half after the UN cut “civilian casualty” numbers in half. They’ll cut that in half again, just you wait.
Closes her eyes and thinks of England.
Yeah I wonder why Ukraine hasn’t been on her agenda. No insta appeal maybe
She seems nice.
Nazi’s though. There. I said it.
Xox
This chic just needs to get laid.
Charlie don’t vote