Dude. Keep dadding. You fucking rule.

Yes, you will. I’m pretty sure it was Shawn Johnson’s coach who was known for letting his gymnasts have much more rest. Human bodies perform better with rest.

Also, human bodies recover from injury faster and better when the injury is acknowledged and respected early. There are certain times where an athlete needs to…

...and to that point, if we’re going to be treating athletes like cattle then they should at least be adults who have the legal ability to decide that for themselves. There should be no children competing in the Olympics.

I’m not sure weight classes would solve the issue because you get into the high school wrestling problem - some 16 year old who should be hitting a growth spurt is starving himself because coach said he’d be “more competitive” at a lower weight class. Maybe the dynamics would be different with gymnastics because of…

Kinja win’t let me star you, but yes, exactly this. The whole idea that gymnastic prime is so Young is a social construct of the sport, not biological fact.

the thing about ‘prime years’ and gymnastics though, is that its kind of bullshit. before they raised the age to 16 everyone thought the prime was 14-16. now they’ve raised it and everyone accepts the prime is 16-18. if you raise the age to 18, i bet you would see a lot more 22 year olds winning (which we will…

Yes, restrict the athletes, not the people who are in power and abusing them.

Rather than restricting the girls from doing what they want to do, maybe we need more avenues for girls to report assault without obstacles or repercussions and better education about what is or isn’t okay behavior. Banning them from the Olympic level isn’t going to fix this.

Yep, I’m saying that. And I also don’t care if a 12 year old wants to be an elite athlete if she is going to have to go through an abattoir to do it.

But then, you’re telling elite athletes not to compete during their prime years (leaving aside the question of whether a sport should be set up so they peak in their teens). It’d be like if basketball players were banned from competing from age 25 to 31.

The Olympics already have raised the minimum age to 16 at the time of competition. The problem is that by the time you’re in the Olympics, you’ve probably been competing at a very intense level for 50% of your life at that point. But it would be nice if they put more emphasis on the well-being of the kids rather than…

Maybe we could put an age restriction on Olympic athletes, so maybe minors wouldn’t be in the total control of ogres and such?

I’m of the view there’s no appropriate time to release a film like this and maybe we can stop making films that pedal the fantasy that any teenage girl would be interested in gross older guys altogether. The fantasy is entirely ONE-SIDED.

He just couldn’t go with Pootie Tang II: Electric Pootieloo, could he? Noooo....he had to make some Art™.

Watching the clip made me feel so sleazy. This is definitely no better than an Allen movie.

The timing of this is seriously revolting and to end the trailer on that particular line is vomit worthy. Louis C.K. knows exactly what he doing here and is hiding in plain sight. Hope his takedown is next. 

This whole thing screams of Louis CK trying to control the narrative w/r/t his own sexual assault allegations. Very very gross.

who turns out to have been a partier back in the day but now wears sweaters and pearls.

“Rape culture” isn’t just a meaningless femnazi buzzword. It’s a term for describing the fact that a lot of our culture - our movies, music, books, social interactions, expectations, are biased towards excusing bad behavior by sexual aggressors while shaming and blaming sexual targets.