NOT!!!
First of all..tut tut for clicking on this..but i know …curiosity and all that. I’d just like to say that I am sick of seeing all these comments over and over again on how women look when they are doing things like skateboarding or any sport. We are not posting to get likes from men. We are posting to inspire young women and are putting all of our energy into growing the scene and doing so. Please think about what a 13 year old girl reads into your comment on her favourite female skaters latest clip and ask yourselves why it has taken us so long to get to this point.
The other day one of my tiny female skate friends told me she wanted to shave her head at the skatepark….and then she asked me if I would still like her without her hair!!! It broke my heart to think that she thought any of the reason I liked her was because of how she looks.
If we post photos of our bodies it is because we have them and so do the women and girls viewing our content and they should all be proud of how they look.
All the women who skate are different and represent someone younger out there who can relate to them. We do not need you validation or constant opinions of how we look in relation to what we are doing. Please!!
I put a few of their weird comments below…
“Sorry I love that girls skating has stepped up but please tell me why they look like dudes I’m a huge fan of the ladies skating but when I thought this was a guy at first lol and Leticia bufoni is so hot omg lol but overall congrats Lacey well done”
“That doesn’t have a vagina.”
“Pretty good for a girl”
“thats a women ???”
“Not really my thing but she is very ‘conventionally’ attractive and posts a fair few saucy pics”
“Hopefully this isn’t just something to allow teenage girls to justify wearing Thrasher tops and Eras”
“model? Or professional skateboarder? Lol”
“I’d switch heelflip over you and kiss you”
….that last one…there are so so many its surprising to see how many hateful people there are out there.
Lets open up a conversation…what do you guys think??!
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Girls are getting gnarlier and are finally getting the recognition they deserve, skating is a complete “do what you want” sport so if you wanna shred in a pair of dickies or a flowery dress who cares, just go out and kill it!!!
So good Stef. ✌🏼
The problem is many fold.
As little as what… 15 /20 years ago there was no issue for a man to open a newspaper, bought in a corner shop, in public place read it and be like “phwoooaa look at the tits on her”, the mainstream media heavily promoted this viewpoint. It’s still completely acceptable to many people and many media outlets.
So you’ve got millions of men who were raised with this being acceptable, and suddenly the instagram revolution comes along and you’ve got girls putting themselves out there for their own goals, skate, fashion, surf, golf… whatevs, but mixed in are still literally hundreds of thousands of girls who just want people to like and drool over pictures of their tits.
So the tiny percentage of girls who are doing it for the love are buried in attention whores (who are not whores, freedom of expression and sexuality and all), and guys have to pick through the minefield of who’s doing what for what reason. All along having this complete social green light from the mainstream to loudly proclaim “shes going in the wank bank”
Until sufficient time has passed that all who’ve lived a full life inder this social ‘back-patting’ for trivialising womans sexual identity, you’re unlikly to see huge changes. As with everything, its the kids who’ll bring the real change. T
Are you trying to insinuate that all men see women as the same except for the novel few that are …’doing it for the love’….having a life?!
I persoanlly have no problem differentiating between someone in Playboy magazine and Lacey Bakers Thrasher part and I think if someone does it might be a sign of something very wrong.
I don’t think its ever been okay to proclaim that someone is going in the wank bank unless you are around a group of like minded biggots
“As with everything, its the kids who’ll bring the real change” ….. well not really if all these horrible people are having children and teaching them that this is okay.
The media heavily promotes bombing the shit out of muslim countries but it is an extremely small percentage of people that think that is in any way okay.
The fact you’re aware of, and doing this for the younger girls who look up to you because they have someone they can relate to is so rad. I wish I had more of that when I was little. I admire all of you badass babes who pursue your paths so adamantly despite what any of those dudes say. I love that you’re feminine as fuck with glitter and pinkness while taking a slam just as bad as any of the bros. shredd on babe! good vibes from vegas.