"It is a brave, and truly progressive, woman who celebrates love and sex as it was in the fabled Age of Aquarius."
It’s been two years since the big-wave surfer, Eddie Invitee, Jaws shredder, and WSL commentator Felicity Palmateer amassed over 10 million views, 9500 comments and 56,000 shares on a TikTok post where she told surf fans she was in hozzy ‘cause she got all busted up during rough sex.
“Put your finger down if you got jackhammered so hard your ovary got twisted and now you’re in the emergency room about to undergo surgery to save your ovary,” said the thirty-two-year-old Western Australian.
That story had a queer end, as they say. Turned out ol Flick didn’t get hurt by D but was simply high on morphine after some other unspecified procedure.
Sex sells! Who knew!
A few years before that came Flick’s brave all nude movie, Skin Deep, a project three years in the making, with cinematography by the noted RED-slingers Rick Rifici and Dwayne Fetch
As I wrote at the time, “In this new era of puritanism where even the brush of a school bag upon the unlovely ass of a woman involves the cops, it is a brave, and truly progressive, woman who celebrates love and sex as it was in the fabled Age of Aquarius.“
Around that time, a carousel of ass shots appeared thrilling the mostly male fans in the commentary pane.
“HER BEAUTIFUL BODY, WIITH GOLDEN HAIR, IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL CLOTHING IN THE WORLD,” wrote one.
“Don’t ever put your close on, you are an Angle,” wrote one literate fan.
Given everything that came before, it was a surprise when Felicity P joined the chorus of athletes putting the boot into the actor Sydney Sweeney after a provocative ad for the sports prediction app Novig appeared, the latest of goofy unrelated causes for white gals, following Georgie Floyd, BLM, Ukraine, Trans, Free Palestine and Lindsay Clancy.
The ad is a 60-second spot where Sweeney poses nude, covered only by sports equipment (basketballs, footballs, hoops), pretending to play various sports.
Water polo player Tilly Kearns, gymnast Gracie Kramer, sprinter Bree Rizzo, boxer Skye Nicolson, runner Mary McCarthy, swimmer Lani Pallister, and field hockey player Jocelyn Bartram have all piled on, plus the Female Athlete Project account.
Kearns went with “I absolutely fucking hate Sydney Sweeney’s new sports ad.”
The Female Athlete Project said “it’s incredible they could fit so much misogyny in 40 seconds.”
Bartram’s line was that Sweeney is “bringing female athletes down” while actual women in sport are still fighting for basic recognition and pay.
Felicity writes,
“The issue is that once again, women + sport = sexualising the woman to sell something. Women’s sport has fought for decades to have female athletes valued for what they can actually DO, rather than what they look like. That’s the conversation.”
A little push-back in the comments, which is interesting.
Nina Rosie Jones writes,
Once again, woman trying to put down woman it makes no sense that’s nice and be stronger together
Felicity P replies,
Supporting women doesn’t mean we have to blindly support everything another woman does. I’m not putting Sydney down, I’m criticising a campaign that plays into the sexualisation of women in sport. We can support women AND have important conversations about the things that continue to hold women’s sport back.
Where do you fall on the matter?
Do you think, like I, that sport is inherently sexualised, male, female or hybrid?
Or something else?
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I did see a funny meme – ‘ You can’t spell advertisements without semen between the tits.’
Idk, I can introduce Sydney to wrestling – that’s a sport.
of course sports is sexualised. guys and girls alike – if you’ve got it show it – makes watching that much more interesting.
let’s not forget that top surfers have been lauded for landing lucrative (sexualised) modelling contracts with non surf brands. Buzzy Kerbox, Nat Young, Laird Hamilton, Danny Fuller (Chanel), Leo, the Fletchers (Versace!), Mikey, Quinoa, Kauli etc. plus:
https://stabmag.com/news/the-five-best-surfer-jaunts-into-high-fashion/
“the latest of goofy unrelated causes for white gals…”
Well, George Floyd was a human being who was murdered slowly in broad daylight by the cops on a busy city street, so yes, there is some relation there to white girls who are also human beings.
Also, I think Ukraine has a few white girls in it.
What about the latest in goofy unrelated causes for provocateurs like yourself? You’ve had Bibi’s back on his genocide for a while, but are you now pulling for Putin too? I hear there’s good money in that
I wonder what is really behind Derek’s boner for genocide?
That sweet AIJAC coin?
Dick sucked by an pretty young Israeli woman?
Mind cooked by drugs and concussion?
All of the above?
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Were you not influenced?
I like it when the religious right and the far left agree on certain topics like this.
As well as she handled all those balls, I imagine she’d be up for some sport-fucking.
Shit, DR and Chas started Beachgrit for money.
They don’t win a lot so I am happy for them.
Some epic flack ole Flick copped in her comments, lots of questions about her IQ too, which we have all bared witness to the lack of. Does she still consider herself an “artist” or is she more focused on making cheesy prime-time Australian TV shows these days?
There’s a reason for ‘hell hath no fury like a…’ Well, possibly a scorned swillnut could stitch ’em up, but that’s a whole different kettle of (I said kettle… not nettle’)…
Sista’s throughout history, have been known to, well, it’s not always a Cinderella saga… but… don’t doubt for one minute, that sista’s can dish it out. And take it. I know that secret agent free/longy/tom tom tends to get over excited, and… But honestly, come on free/longy tom tom, you can’t compare surfeein’ to combat sports … especially not at the fucking ragles fathander. I can’t see any of the sista’s, or even the bro’s for that matter, not even the star… or flick, or even rosy, even slats, piling on, evil sisterin’ Smilla.
https://youtu.be/itO3d71KhH4
In this day and age, in the ever advancin’ wild west, you can’t blame anyone. Again, no one wants to be the ones slavin’ away, slavin’ their guts out for sweet fuck all, lifers, makin’, or doing all the behind the scenes shit, that makes the shot, vlog, poddy, vid, webby, song, movie, series, article, concert, event, etc, etc… the sale, the ‘llluuurrrvvee’, possible.
And its not just the sistas, the bro’s have been known to do stuff. Way back, there was natso, and young Cooney. Everyone knew… but… the rest is history. Ya gotta be able to sell ya self, to make it in the wild west… How else can you explain Raggles? Even secret agent free/longy/tom tom bought in, jumped into and onto the fat end of the pyramid, hook line and sinker!!!
So come on sista’s give ya sista a break!
Isn’t it a little bit hypocritical coming from her? She is always parading her ass around selling something and she is a sports woman?
If you think tyler wright is a narcisitic empty head you should spend 5 seconds with flink
What are the odds her boobs are fake?
Xix
Highly doubtful.
But can we bet on it ?
Xox
First one to find out wins.
One would think they’d be more concerned about the chick’s with dicks wanting in than a fellow women earning a check with her assets.
It’s dude’s with tits.
Xox
I did ask a surgeon buddy of mine how they do a sex change from man to female. They split the dick down the middle and fold it in like you’d take a pair of socks and roll em together inside out. Then stuff it inside making a cavity. Make a pair of lips out the nutt sack. Wild times we live!
Yummy!
Xox
Haha, Jesus Christ, just when you thought that whatshername the commentator couldn’t get any more ridiculous.
Ahhhahahahahhawwwwww.
Xox
It’s a hot chick in a sports betting ad. I guess I could understand the outrage if she was an actual sportswoman but this is an actress with big cans promoting gambling. If she didn’t have the sport props what would be the difference between this and her promoting her underwear brand??
Anyhoo, she is hot. Long may it continue.
Speaking of sex sells I’m noticing this new genre of female kooks documenting themselves learning to surf with the premise that they are going to be competitive surfers.
It’s all very subtle, but lots of shots of them working out with the rigs out.
Like this one.
Fuckin’ idiotic ho’s if ever there were
Ruining our game
And ruining every place they go to that used to be ours
It’s at times like this I wouldn’t care if the world got nuked and/or taken over by vicious robots dogs…
pretty annoying but some tight rigs Beery, so not all bad mate.
Yes some of the eye candy is probably good, though listening to 30 seconds of her now is more than enough.
Tbese sort or people (both men and women) are always soooo fucked in the head and trying to influence even fuckeder in the head idiots that I can’t watch.
Honestly. I’d probably rather shit on her face than fuck her.
And I’m normally a nice funloving guy, especially when it comes to attractive women.
Just makes me throw up in my mouth a bit…
You’re still doing fine if the thought of a woman shitting on their face makes you want a throw up in your mouth a little bit.
I’m giving you a clean bill of mental health.
I’m adding you to the list of tech titans
why does every woman out there fell the need to destroy their looks with those hideous arm sleeve tats? Gross.
The ol’ algorithm will take you down some funny holes.
I wonder how much of the popular surf content is pushed to all of us, at various points around the world.
For a long while I was lucky enough not to be recommended anything by someone named Koa, but then the California Swell happened and that streak was broken when they tried to get me to watch a Koa blog. No thank you.
I’d rather watch the aspiring lady pros, which i somehow have not yet been recommended.
someone should probably tell her that the wide poo-stance is not going to be very effective nor influiential..
Soooo hows everyone’s fridge for the connie? I’m pretty sure i can get another slab in there if i lose the carrots and cutlets.
fridge shots go in this thread
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I completely forgot that was starting back up. Go little Pip, you show em dickhead
I have a multi with him and Riss winning, on account of lil Caity coming off doing herself a mischief. If it comes through a carton of piss is up for grabs again!
Xox
Give yaself a fuckin’ uppercut ya fuckin’ pooofter
This is the usual resting state of our (my brother and I) kitchen beer fridge full of 10-packs.
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And the kitchen food fridge, again, 10-packs.
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The current laundry stash (plus cardboard recycling on the right)
Boxes of 30.
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And an archive shot of the laundry stash during the covid hoax, 24’s, a 10, and some 6ers.
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Plus there’s a shit load of moonshine, wine and a new brew of ‘shine bubbling away I can’t be fucked showing.
Get a fuckin’ act will ya…
Now that;s what I call a real fridge!!!
Et tu Brutē…😅
I knew you’d come through
Hahahahahahaaha onyas Beefy ya fucking core lord yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew
VBeef & VBeer
its an art exhibition!
The owners of Coopers brewing are religious nuts just sayin’
I just read that In Zid is back on tour and thats fantastic news. Not cuz I reckon its a good event but cuz unsurprisingly I was banned for the last one so never got the chance to properly write off our distant family members and what a shit event it was. Honestly besides Yagos 10 and that photographer getting nipped on the foot by an angry underwater sheep what an absolute pile of wank that event was. Even the usually funny Luke Cederman looked embarrassed by what was happening around him haha
I’ll probs head over for it.
If SCrunt comes over too, and Chas n Dezz stump up for my kinda beer budget, plus BG shirts and flags I’ll make the 5 hr trip south from the far north then…
Can I stay in your Subaru with you?
Xox
No.
We can all have (separate) tents.
You’ll be padlocked in yours (alone) from dusk to dawn…
What a trio, sounds hell fun. You can even do the translating for me and Longy hahaha
Looked like a fun week out, other than the cold .
Would make a proper working vacay.
You can one up Rock’s interview with Ceej by getting us an exclusive with Sally ……..when she requalifies through the Challenger early next year.
Luke Cederman wasn’t embarrassed, he was just showing how lame he is at live work, was out of his depth, and it showed, embarrassingly so.
Normally he rehearses and then edits for days to make 5 to 10 mins of video.
Trying to do his ‘character’ live showed his shortcomings.
If he’d just gone into it naturally without trying to put on an exaggerated version of what you normally see it could’ve worked, but fully kooked it without his usual control over editing.
Out of his depth by trying to ‘act’ live.
Too forced and unnatural.
P.S.
No doubt the wosl told him to put on his ‘act’, but without the experience of live work it really showed, and that was a bad decision.
Was very uncomfortable, and made the audience feel that discomfort too…
it’s a low bar to do better than that “get sent” garbage the WSL tried to inflict upon us (or whatever it was called).