One other day, one other outdated quote exhibiting how persistently unsuitable JD Vance is.
This time the feedback that resurfaced are about Simone Biles, on the event of her profitable the gold medal within the Girls’s All-Round Gymnastics competitors on the Paris 2024 Olympics.
Talking on Fox Information in 2021, whereas he was nonetheless a Senate hopeful, lengthy earlier than he was doubtlessly our subsequent Vice President, he determined to make use of Simone’s resolution to drop out of the Tokyo Olympics as a chance to assault the rising acceptance of self-care as “weak.” He mentioned:
“I believe, clearly, it’s comprehensible that she was going by means of an unbelievable quantity of stress. What I discover so bizarre about this, and it displays on the media greater than it does on Simone Biles, is that we’ve tried to show a really tragic second — Simone Biles quitting the Olympic crew — into this act of heroism. And I believe it displays fairly poorly on our kind of therapeutic society that we attempt to reward folks not for moments of energy, not for moments of heroism, however for his or her weakest moments.”
He continued:
“Being an athlete at that degree is extremely robust… a standard response on this second could be to say: ‘It’s only a disgrace that she’s going by means of this. It’s a disgrace that she give up.’ However as an alternative, what our press has carried out, I believe, is flip this into this bizarre therapeutic second. ‘Let’s reward her for doing this.’ And I believe that’s actually the place the issue herein lies.”
Wow. Man, it should be really easy to guage a world-class athlete from the consolation of your sofa, huh? OK, JD. Right here’s the deal…
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Stepping away from these video games might have been an indication of bodily weak point, clearly, however the resolution was fairly clearly an instance of extraordinary energy of character and logic. This was when Simone had “the twisties.” It’s what gymnasts name it once they instantly can’t inform which course they’re pointed whereas they’re spinning round within the air. In different phrases, the way in which all us mortal of us could be if we had been instantly thrown right into a backflip. If Simone had pressured herself to go ahead even when she knew it was in harmful circumstances, that will have been weak — and silly.
So sure, the press and society at massive praised her. What she was doing was setting a fantastic instance for younger folks, for whom the reply is NOT at all times do it, do it, do it, irrespective of the way you’re feeling about it.
And her reward was NOT being horribly injured. As an alternative she took the time and care to repair what she wanted to and got here again stronger than ever. And she or he received the gold. In the event you nonetheless suppose she was weak or unsuitable in that second, we’d suggest shutting the hell up about it. As a result of it’s clear Simone Biles is the skilled on what Simone Biles wanted. And she or he has the medals to show it.
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