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    Not only is Des super anti-doping but she also wasn’t that much of an underdog. She’s been on the US Olympic Marathon team for the last two Olympics and has come close to winning this race before. People are calling it an upset because she didn’t have the buzz around her that Shalane and Molly did. Honestly, I’d put

    I had once had to remove someone from my college gym (where I worked) because she came in with and tried to run on the treadmill with no shoes on (against the rules), she was also wearing a dress and no bra (not against the rules and not why I had to send her home but running on a treadmill with no bra could not have

    Or—you could ask...it’s not new that society put emotional labor entirely on women but it should just be normal (has been with my partners) that throughout, you check-in, especially with someone you don’t know well. To put it entirely on women is to once again allow men to shrug off their responsibility to take on

    I had a teammate in college who used comment on how lucky I was have big boobs all the time, she was flat-chested and used to wear these ridiculously padded bras and whenever we finished a workout and I had to unstrap my sports bra in three places she’d remind me not to complain bc guys love boobs. It’s a lot easier

    I had a classmate in college who referred to herself as Irish (born and raised in Boston, her family was from Ireland four generations back, she herself had never been when I knew her) and I’m sure than any Irish person would have been super pissed off to hear her far too regular announcement: I can drink so much

    ..Lincoln was a republican (the first republican President)...the dems were the ones who were pro-slavery.