microaggression? or having the overreaction?

Jim Turner wrote:

It's hard to take Erin Monaghan seriously with quotes like "You bet Andrew Bisharat wrote a piece about it in National Geographic’s adventure blog because he jizzes all over anything bro-club."

Isnt she defeating her own argument by writing that?  I'm confused...

I'm gonna guess she probably doesn't care if most people take her seriously.  She's already written plenty of other articles similar to this one where she rants about some pretty petty stuff and turns them in to huge issues (the "Beta Babes" one comes to mind), so people already have their opinion of her established.  As with many people on the extreme of either side, be it left or right, they write things to reaffirm their own opinions and seek confirmation from others on their side.  If you read the comments on her article, she only responds to people either agreeing with her or pointing out things that people within her group didn't approve of (the "oriental" remark).

As well, Erin doesn't seem to understand hyperbole or being facetious.  When Cedar said he has a "climbing burka" for his wife to wear,  anyone who has even the slightest sense of humor could tell that was meant as a joke, but she took it very seriously.

I feel like the feminists who act this way and get offended by everything are more likely to hurt their cause then help it. If you get so offended by one small comment on a podcast that write a huge blog post, who really has the issue? 

You can't spend your whole life in a safe space. You can spend it getting outraged, but do something with that outrage, instead of writing on a blog. People, in any argument, are more willing to listen to you if you're cool and collected, rather than spouting about everything that offends you. 

Billcoe wrote:

6 pages, these people don't even start to get warmed up at 6 pages. Pitchforks and torches will be out by P2, but 6 pages? Reallllllyyyy?!  Cedar and Aleks Z are generally hillarious. Wrights comments are probably more a function of him not being around a lot of women...living in a dumpster an all. 

PS, "Oriental women" is not the correct term. "Asian women" is what she meant. 

It's summer, there won't be as many people cooped up inside being miserable (unless they live in Arizona like me).  Six pages was a fair guess this time year.  If posted in winter I would of said 10.

jgfox wrote:

It's summer, there won't be as many people cooped up inside being miserable (unless they live in Arizona like me).  Six pages was a fair guess this time year.  If posted in winter I would of said 10.

But winter is prime climbing seasons in most the boulder fields around here.

I dream that one day we'll achieve true equality, and the booty-short-wearing woman be put on an equal plane with her male counterpart, the shirtless bro, and ridiculed mercilessly.  I want to live in a world where a woman isn't judged by her looks but by the wisdom of her decision to climb offwidth in a sports bra. One day...

I think Cedar has a point. That's why I always wear my puffy and beanie when I climb, even in the summer. If I was wearing a tshirt or no shirt at all, people would just be walking by, admiring my body for the work of art that it is, rather than noticing that I'm sending 13a. I want people to pay attention to how hard I climb, rather than how good I look. If you want to admire my body, swing by my sprinter van later and we can hang out on my crash-pad couch,  spin poi or slack line (my abs look great when I slack line.) 

Is it ok to wear a kilt while climbing?

ViperScale wrote:

Is it ok to wear a kilt while climbing?

Yes, as long as your belayer stays farther back from the wall so they don't get to see what's swinging around under there.

ViperScale wrote:

Is it ok to wear a kilt while climbing?

How else will you stick the dynamic stoke-boner no hands rest mushroom jam?

Scott McMahon wrote:

You want to be seen as a professional? DRESS LIKE ONE.  

And just like that, the community turned it's back on Cedar Wright.

Maybe as sexually repressed americans, we are just afraid of the human body.

BTW there are a whole series of these.

climbing friend, 

not being born your country nor understanding your superficial, narcissistic, materialisticalifragitonium ways, how may I know whether a topic such as the bun-hugging shorts it is acceptable for the funny jokes ha ha, or if it is for actual it is not OK not OK and I shall not make joke? How may cedar wright know if his joke it is funny and no big deal compare to actual atrocities such as bias, gap of pay, or mutilation of genital, or if it is deeply offensive and wounding, perpetuating the many horrible thing written on in angry article?

Aleks Zebastian wrote:

climbing friend, 

not being born your country nor understanding your superficial, narcissistic, materialisticalifragitonium ways, how may I know whether a topic such as the bun-hugging shorts it is acceptable for the funny jokes ha ha, or if it is for actual it is not OK not OK and I shall not make joke? How may cedar wright know if his joke it is funny and no big deal compare to actual atrocities such as bias, gap of pay, or mutilation of genital, or if it is deeply offensive and wounding, perpetuating the many horrible thing written on in angry article?

Aleks,

You and Cedar need to attend a sensitivity workshop in the Santa Cruz mountains amongst the redwood trees.  Only there can newcomers foster a deeper understanding and appreciation for other peoples.. and different trees.  Only $2469 for a two day workshop.

Simon W wrote:

Aleks,

You and Cedar need to attend a sensitivity workshop in the Santa Cruz mountains amongst the redwood trees.  Only there can newcomers foster a deeper understanding and appreciation for other peoples.. and different trees.  Only $2469 for a two day workshop.

climbing friend,

I think not. I may have hulking guns, formidable neck meat, and emanate overwhelming and irresistable masculine energy, as well as regularly redefining what it mean bold, yet I remain quite sensitive, intuitive, and compassionate. Instead you investy RMPFUHLS business n purchase my warrior mountain gorilla ebook, for kingly sum of your american rubles?

Rubles? Aren't you from Norway?  I smell a rat!  :-/

the schmuck wrote:

Rubles? Aren't you from Norway?  I smell a rat!  :-/

climbing friend,

is this not your new currency with the donald and the putin?

If you stand in the middle of the road cars should avoid hitting you but you also have to take responsibility for your own actions. Your own actions always affect what happens to you, rarely is there ever a time when you are completely blameless of the outcome of your life.

ViperScale wrote:

If you stand in the middle of the road cars should avoid hitting you but you also have to take responsibility for your own actions. Your own actions always affect what happens to you, rarely is there ever a time when you are completely blameless of the outcome of your life.

You're right, I think it's just safer to say that we're all to blame for everything that happens.

I always throw away my gear after dropping it more than 50 feet because of the possibility of microaggressions.