Motherhood, says Chappell Roan, is exhausting and joyless.
Motherhood, says Chappell Roan, is exhausting and joyless.

Chappell Roan and Bethany Hamilton square off in brawl over motherhood

Derek Rielly

By Derek Rielly

“All of my friends who have kids are in hell. I’ve not met anyone who’s happy, anyone who has light in their eyes.”

The campy, sorta drag synth queen and grammy winner Chappell Roan, formerly Kayleight Rose Amstutz, has been slammed by surf queen Bethany Hamilton over recent comments Roan made about the horrors of being a mammy.

On the Call Her Daddy podcast in March, Chappell Roan sparked debate by saying, “All of my friends who have kids are in hell.”

Chappell Roan, who is twenty-seven, observed her peers with young children, noting, “I don’t know anyone who’s happy and has children at this age… I’ve not met anyone who’s happy, anyone who has light in their eyes, anyone who has slept.”

Motherhood, said Chappell Roan, was exhausting and joyless.

As readers know, “Family” has become a dangerous right-wing idea, one that perpetuates gender roles and economic inequalities and which is garlanded with notes of fanatic Christianity and white supremacy.

And, here, Bethany Hamilton, the thirty-five-year-old one-armed mammy of four, swung in to reassure her almost two-and-a-half-mill fans that motherhood ain’t so bad. Quite often, it’s beautiful and profound and a way to unlock a deeper sense of self and life.

“While yes there are some challenging days and some tough moments… I really love my children and enjoy their presence and the light that they bring!” Bethany writes.

“I think there’s a really dark tone towards motherhood on social media in particular and I think truly there is a lot of cultural shifts that need to happen surrounding family. Mothers may not be supported in the way that they need. Our mindsets may need to be reordered.

“But motherhood truly is a blessing when you see your children as a gift with a deep purpose…. It truly is a JOY.”

The 1988 world champ Barton Lynch summed up majority opinion below the line writing about Chappell Roan, “So sad.”

I love babies, got three of ’em, and can’t imagine what sort of vacuous, drug-soaked, T-dick riding life I’d be leading if not for they.

Reader, where do you stand on the issue of mammys and babies?

 

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Influencer (pictured) being dumb. Photo: Youtube
Influencer (pictured) being dumb. Photo: Youtube

Influencer arrested for bringing Diet Coke to untouched Andaman Island tribe

Chas Smith

By Chas Smith

“He landed briefly, left the offerings on the shore, collected sand samples, and recorded a video..."

Influencers, man. What big ol’ piles of doo. Adding another chapter to the Annals of Idiocy, the US-by-way-of-Ukraine Like Farmer Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov was arrested, days ago, for sneaking onto a restricted Andaman island carrying a coconut and a can of Diet Coke.

North Sentinel, which is governed by India, is home to the Sentinelese people, a tribe that has been completely untouched by the industrial world. There’s believed to be 150, or such, though no one quite knows as any outsider is banned from coming within 3 miles of the Manhattan-sized island in order to protect the group from disease and allow them to preserve their way of life.

Polyakov, however, thought the opportunity to taste Diet Coke for the worst time outweighed the possibility that all Sentinelese might die from small pox.

The 24-year-old commandeered a boat and rowed over, blowing a whistle offshore for an hour to attract the tribe’s attention before heading to shore.

Andaman and Nicobar Islands police chief, HGS Dhaliwal explained, “He landed briefly for about five minutes, left the offerings on the shore, collected sand samples, and recorded a video before returning to his boat. A review of his GoPro camera footage showed his entry and landing into the restricted North Sentinel Island.”

Polyakov had, apparently, attempted to reach the island in 2024 but was stopped by staff at the hotel where he was staying. He was arrested on Monday, Dhaliwal continuing, “The American citizen was presented before the local court after his arrest and is now on a three-day remand for further interrogation.”

The Sentinelese have actively and aggressively shunned outsiders, menacing anyone who dares get close and killing a missionary who made landfall in 2018.

The Bay Boys of the Indian Ocean.

If you don’t live here, don’t preach here.

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Live Chat: Day Three of the Surf City El Salvador Pro!

Chas Smith

By Chas Smith

Let them be eliminated.

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Filipe Toledo smashes his surfboard at the US Open
Filipe Toledo smashes his surfboard at the US Open after losing to Tanner Hendrickson. | Photo: @tsherms/Steve Sherman

Filipe Toledo attacks WSL judges in wild post-heat interview

Derek Rielly

By Derek Rielly

“I don’t know what else do I have to do to get bigger scores. I wish they (judges) can go out there and do the same thing.”

The world’s best surfer in waves two-and-a-half-feet-and-under, Filipe Toledo, has launched an unprecedented attack on the WSL’s judges after easily winning his opening round heat at the El Salvador Pro.

Two-time world champ Filipe Toledo, who turns thirty in a couple of weeks, scored the highest heat total of the round, 15.77, beating Italo Ferreira and Griffin Colapinto for first-day honours.

“With all my three waves I thought I was over eight points,” Filipe Toledo said in his post-heat presser. “Especially on my last wave. The variety, the speed, the air in the middle, the blow tail at the end. So yeah, I don’t know what else do I have to do to get bigger scores. I wish they (judges) can go out there and do the same thing.”

 

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Giving judges hell ain’t new to Filipe Toledo.

Two months ago in Abu Dhabi, Toledo collided with the WSL’s official photographer Thiago Diz on his penultimate wave in his round of 16 heat against Kanoa Igarashi.

Toledo had been having a shocker and the collision, on the meaningless end section, took out a fin. Thiago looked freaked out by the hit and Filipe lit up at everyone, Thiago, the man, judges, injustice etc.

“This display of lack of empathy was shameful, unforgivable sportsmanship,” wrote Matt George.

In 2023, the legendary surf coach Glen ‘Micro’ Hall described Filipe Toledo, Gabriel Medina and Italo Ferreira as having “victim mentality” when they cried over their losses at the Surf Ranch event.

The previous year in El Salvador, Filipe was beaten by the Californian Griffin Colapinto, which resulted in Griff getting “violent, gruesome threats” and Filipe’s daddy Rick wading into the mix claiming, “We really hope that something will be done, and that this will change, as it is becoming unbearable to see and hear the things we are hearing. during the events, I am embarrassed for the others.

The sport’s judging has long been an issue with the Brazilian world champs, Gabriel Medina, Filipe Toledo and Italo Ferreira, a legacy, likely, of the country’s obsession with soccer, a sported noted for its participants to easily dissolve into tears.

In 2017, Filipe Toledo was banned for one event after the pint-sized ball of fury stormed the judging tower, waving his little board at ’em etc.

“Filipe is a really good kid and an incredible surfer,” said the WSL’s Renato Hickel. The WSL is very fortunate to have someone of his caliber on Tour and he is constantly progressing the level of surfing in the live arena. It’s disappointing when we have to pass disciplinary action for any of our surfers, but that behavior is not acceptable for the sport.”

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Bay Boy (pictured) harassing non-native surfers.
Bay Boy (pictured) harassing non-native surfers.

Notorious Lunada Bay Boys gang loses bamboo hangout once used to harass “non-native surfers”

Chas Smith

By Chas Smith

“That was important to the plaintiffs to remove."

It has been a hard few years for California’s most infamous surf gang. The Bay Boys, as they were called, once proudly ruled Palos Verdes’ Lunada Bay. The Southern California wave is very reflective of its neighborhood, lightly below average, and yet the Bay Boys protected it as if it were the Banzai Pipeline itself. Stories circulating about outsiders receiving menacing stares or worse. Menacing swears.

Well, a lawsuit was filed by one Cory Spencer and Diana Miernik in 2016 against the city, which lost and was forced to:

-Add stone benches at key points along the Lunada Bay bluffs, similar to benches in other coastal areas of the city.

-Improve the existing pathway along the Lunada Bay bluffs.

-Add simple signage to assist with navigation and to ensure the public is aware that the beach access at Lunada Bay is available to everyone.

And rip out a clump of bamboo where the Bay Boys allegedly partook in their brand of naughty.

According to KTLA:

With the help of a helicopter on Monday, the city of Palos Verdes Estates removed large amounts of non-native bamboo from Lunada Bay. The environment, however, was not the primary reasson.

Workers cleared the plants as part of a lawsuit settlement involving the notorious Bay Boys surf gang, which had been harassing “non-native” surfers for decades, the Daily Breeze is reporting.

The gang’s tactics included slashing car tires, hurling rocks, and picking fights. The lawsuit, filed by two out-of-town surfers, accused the city of failing to take action to stop them.

So.

Now that Lunada Bay has signs declaring it available to everyone and no bamboo forest for rock hurling, have you booked your Palos Verdes surf vacation?

Report back please.

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