Improvise, adapt, overcome

Aug 9, 2024 8:00 PM

sevenredphoenix

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Those three words are paramount to fighting and winning battles, but what happens when you finally overcome?

You keep improvising, and you keep adapting.

The enemy won’t rest and neither should you.

If they were worried about propriety, they wouldn't force female professional athletes to wear fucking bikinis.

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Probably one one of those disgusting ex girlfriend porno sites

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But there are so many! Which one?

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KNEW IT WOULD BE HERE. LOVE IT..... What's the answer btw...

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@alyshanewman . It’s pretty pg-13 tho

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The rules state you must wear clothing so small it's closer to underwear than sports wear. But yet moving suggestively is taking it too far? That's some douchy, hypocrisy.

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If she used her success to get some corporate sponsorships, no one would care, but oh my god, how dare she sell nudes

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There's more promotion of her OnlyFans by them saying it's a controversy more than her twerking

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plottwist: they know and are doing her a solid.

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Definitely a prime example of the streisand effect. I would bet if they didnt say shit about it, few would have even noticed the twerking.

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I had not heard anything about it until seeing this media coverage.

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I know about it now, so yea good advertising. I don't use only fans but still.

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I honestly didn't know she had an OF until this post. So yeah. Never would have known. Thanks for the nut magats

2 years ago | Likes 37 Dislikes 0

Wait, she has an only fans? Where is it... So I can avoid it.

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Absolutely. If I saw her twerking my first thought would be "oh cute, she's doing a victory dance" not "oh wow, she must have an OnlyFans." I wouldn't have known about her OF if not for the media attention

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Her action was a blip on my newsfeed-radar. I didn't even know about her onlyfans. The outrage response is what informed me, so yeah that's accurate

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I wouldn't have known of any Olympians non olympicife without the media blasting it at me

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I would have had no idea if conservatives weren’t outraged and I never stumbled on this post

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Their Streisand Effect-ing her. And if they're running ads next to the pearl clutching stories, *they're* making money off her OnlyFans.

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Also the right loves to "slut shame" any women that doesn't put out to them specifically. If she had a MAGA hat on while doing it, they'd open their wallets right up though.

2 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Yoooo so true

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Which is one of the oldest ways to manipulate the media. Remember the original Grand Theft Auto?

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If by "manipulate" you mean a mutually beneficial situation where both get more attention.

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Kevin Smith "joined the protest" against the release of his own movie, Dogma. It was great PR.

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Dogma is dog

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If I thought anyone would pay to see my body I’d be on there right the fuck now.

What I have to hurt my back to make money? Waste my time at a desk making money for some old fuck who’s probably gonna lay half of us off and dump our work on the other half so he can have even more money?

I’d so much rather get paid to helicopter on camera. “What about dignity?” - what the fuck about it? How dignified is working a dead end job till you die?

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“Never has the Olympics endured a more overtly-sexualized display!!! And now we go to the women’s beach volleyball semi-finals…”

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Oh no! People are making money off their own athletic bodies. Do t they know they're supposed to allow corporations to exploit them so their shareholders can be the ones making money off their athletic bodies?

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Imagine using your achievements to garner fame instead of hiring a PR firm. What a terrible person she is. /s

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Considering most atheletes are barely paid to train for the olympics. Where only a handful get popular enough to get corporate sponsorship... yeah. Gear, food, nutritionists, etc. It costs a lot of money. Won't blame them trying to find ways to afford it.

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Won't someone think of the Sports Illustrated shareholders?! They rely on those profits from sexualizing athletes to underpay their servants! These independent athletes are stealing the expensive cheeses directly out of their fat-cheeked mouths!

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Wish I could upvote this harder

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Personally I want to say it's a bit disrespectful to promote anything beyond the games, but the opening ceremony literally had Louis Vuitton in it, so that ship has sailed. I'm not hugely fond of excessive celebratory gestures, but I understand they are excited and I'm rather prude. Frankly if the only thing she did was twerk after her jump, then it seems rather benign. And as far as having an OF, got to pay rent somehow.

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If athletes are looking for more respect than prostitutes receive, they should know the difference between professional sports and sex professions. They should know enough about endorphins and hormones to know when their decisions are being influenced by primitive instincts. They're on the world stage, not a strip club stage. Kids are looking for inspirational heroes, not attention whores.

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Come up with some logic and empathy behind your arguments. So far all these morons encourage impressionable youth to advertise themselves sexually on free to air television viewed by children all over the world. Reflect on your mindless, heartless position. You're disgusting people. Obviously all liars, failures in your own right. Lost on here because you fail in the real world. And now threats?? Fine, come find me. You'll regret facing someone who thrives in the reality you suffer.

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INCEL ALERT INCEL ALERT

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oh christ shut the fuck up

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Piss off incel.

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Well when did you get the internet, Miss Sarah Plain and Tall?

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Whatever kids. If you don't respect yourselves or your mental health, then suffer the consequences. The stats don't lie. Psychology is real. Society has expectations. My partner and I are very happy. You can wake up to regret later if you like. I'm not going to ignore reality just to be on a brainless bandwagon.

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When you sell your body, it's about the only time you control the means of production.

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Anyone who works is selling their body. The difference is merely what is worn (or not) and what is done.

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Some people are selling their brain. I have a chronic condition and my body is fucked. No one would pay to use it. And I don't go into the office, so they don't even physically have me. I work remotely and provide ideas.

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I would argue that your brain is just part of your body. you just went advanced level.

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Very funny but no, this do creates wrong incentives, that given that she was successful in promoting her only fans by doing this then the rest of the athletes (specially women) will follow and soon the olympics will be mostly a onlyFans promotion and competition second (unless they add rules with big economic penalties for doing this)

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I understand what you mean, pretty soon they're all gonna be wearing bdsm latex and leather, because spandex can be a fetish, and we all know it's a slippery slope from there.....

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This might be THE biggest slippery slope of all time lmfao.

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You’d think people would be happy that she’s pulling herself up with her boot straps.

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*Clutches pearls* "not like that!"

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But sexuality??!! Not in my Christian neighborhood!
/s

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"BuT THeYRe DoINg iT tHE WRonG wAY" -outrage media.

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As a guy who looks like fat jesus I must insist they stop this! it is unfair to the physical attractiveness challenged! Blerg! /s

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I've never been on of until today. Thank you kindly.

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Westerners have it too easy. We like to invent problems.

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If you want to get stroppy about an athlete supporting her sports career w/ an Only Fans? Maybe change the rules so Chinese athletes aren’t the only ones who can keep “amateur status” while being 100% supported by their Government.

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What is this "amateur status" you are referring to and how does it apply to the Olympics, which is full of professional athletes?

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The amateur status is that being an athlete is not the job of most Western athletes. They tend to have other jobs. Chinese athletes meanwhile are full-time employees of the Chinese state and paid accordingly. China was one of the nations that drove the professionalization of the Olympics as a means to create national prestige. That's also why every one of their athletes, just like with the Soviet Union, East Germany, North Korea, etc. is being forced to use performance-enhancing substances.

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I wasn't aware she had an OnlyFans until I read about people complaining she was promoting her OnlyFans ...

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An athletes career is generally over around age 35, for some even earlier and after that they have to figure out how to make money for what remains of their life, so if she can drum up some popularity and earn herself a larger pile of money through OF I think that is her business and nobody elses (Aside from paying subscribers I guess in some sense).

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Leave. Women. Alone.

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I mean she earned the right to twerk by getting there. My fat ass couldn't do what she does.

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Didn't the IOC have to warn TV network not to shoot crotch shots of the women? Why yes, yes the did.

https://www.express.co.uk/sport/othersport/1929545/Olympics-2024-cameramen-warned-sexist-filming-women-athletes

Press acting shocked is flagrant hypocrisy. They're doing it too.

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Considering how much work she's put into it - damn right she should flaunt it. If I had anything worth anything I'd try to make money off it too

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#3 Do these guys have OF too? 😏

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Oh, and that is not ok because only the International Olympic Committee and the media companies get to make money from objectifying athletes?

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lol objectifying, you are a funny bunch

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Personally I think the IOC should help support them so they don't need to go to only fans, instead the rich old dudes joke about wanking to their onlyfans

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How are the beach volleyball viewership numbers this year compared to the last couple of Olympics.. just curious with the attire change rules 🤔

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Probably not much, since the rules changed in 2012.

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Is almost like people like to see things they are biologically programmed to be attracted to! So weird! How can we solve this mystery? ffs

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it's such a weird mix of "dudes who want a trad wife with dudes who want to objectify athletes in mandatory skimpy dress"

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What's a trad wife?

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I stand firmly with objectify from a distance knowing they are well out of my league

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There’s a lot of overlap in that venn diagram.

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Practically a circle, with a crunchy guilty center

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lol calling the most basic sexuality instincts "objectification" is the lamest thing the left has ever done, sexuality developed from million of years on humans and any other mammal.

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Neat. Are you not more than your animal instincts? We as a species have discovered that objectification is harmful, so we strive to be better so as to not harm others. You see how that works? I realize it's a bummer for your penis but like... use your frontal lobes. I believe in you.

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No shit. Did you see the skeleton video with that chick from Italy where her clam was on full display?

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No..gross…where?

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I don't even know what a "skeleton video" is

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It's the sport where they ride a sled on their stomach down a iced over track that looks like a waterslide

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oh! Skeleton. Duh lol

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Yea, it’s like luge but weirder. Idk how either of them are sports.

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Oh man, don't be such a boomer, bruh. You need to skibidi 411 on the stitch with "boney fans" vids. Dab on the haters, and just goon to these calcium gyats. Get your skeleton vid on and stop taking L's in the chat. You don't have to roll solos either. Get yourself a duo, a trio, or even a quad, and light up a phat cloud of iBones. Get that dub, chat. For real for real. Only in Ohio, amiright?

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Okay, so if I'm keeping score: cocaine, twerking, and OnlyFans are unforgivable offenses to the fine tradition of the Olympics. Child rape still a-okay.

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Who's saying that?

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Member of this year's Dutch volleyball team was convicted of raping a 12 year old back in 2016.

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But I've not heard anyone say that that was "a ok" or anything like it.

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And yet he's allowed to participate.

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Participating in the Olympics doesn't put you in any position of authority over a child or put you alone with them, so why shouldn't he be?

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Its an ancient greek tradition

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Self-sponsored.

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Athletes, you need to wear the skimpiest outfits imaginable. Wait. No. Not like that.

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I don’t know what to say to people that are offended by her behavior. Really? Really?
This is what offends you?
Is OnlyFans something that’s in your face everyday so much so you can’t stand it anymore?

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Oh, her traffic is going to go WAY up after this.

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good for her!

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Not the only thing to go up... iykwim...

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Get back to me when the Italian gymnast does nsfw with the cheese lol

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Not safe for Winnimere

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The cheese fap tax

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She's gonna get all Hot and Gruyere.

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Cheese fetish, eh? ...Queso, that's a bit quarky.

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Boner jorno to you too

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its not delivery, but i wish it was

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Gorlammmmmi

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man she cut that cheese good

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I wanna smell it!

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It's a friggin longshot, but .

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It's be Gouda enough to wait for it.

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I'm pretty sure she prefers a hard cheese if you get what I'm saying. She has grater goals.

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Possibly edam long wait but will certainly brie worth it

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It cheddar be.

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The national sports teams could just pay athletes more money, or am I missing something?

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both

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I think assuming that OF (or other similar work) must be done out of necessity is an unfair prejudice to have and to reinforce.

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„While stars like Michael Phelps and Simone Biles can make millions, most athletes struggle to cover the cost of competing on the global stage.“

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/paris-2024-summer-olympics/olympians-are-turning-to-onlyfans-to-fund-dreams-as-they-face-a-broken-finance-system/5688966/?amp=1

If they were doing it for the sake of satisfying their exhibitionism then they wouldn’t use a paywall. But yeah. I’m the asshole for suggesting athletes should be paid a living wage.

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I'm not saying you're an asshole and I'm not arguing against that athletes should be paid a living wage. I'm arguing against prejudice towards sexwork.

If someone can make money of off something they enjoy doing while still being their own boss while not harming anyone, then there's no reason they shouldn't be allowed to do that. And that's assuming, in this case, that she enjoys that specific variant of exhibitionism. Some people have a kink to exhibit themselves specifically for money.

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So you’re assuming I’m prejudiced against sex work or what prompted you to reply to my post?

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The post is not about her income or financial situation, it's about her having an onlyfans and about people accusing and defending her. Your original comment is implying that having an onlyfans is an issue that needs to be solved, and that higher pay can solve this issue. That may not have been your intention, but that is the prejudice that your comment is reinforcing.

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If Olympic athletes were paid the way soccer players are then maybe she wouldn't have an onlyfans. At the last summer Olympics I read somewhere about the gold medal shot put person working like 3 jobs because these games and competitions don't actually pay like normal sports. You get sponsorships if you win in a "cool" sport but that's it.

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I can't remember the event he won gold in or his name, but I remember the story of an athlete that won gold in the Olympics and also competes in worlds and nationals. He has sponsors but he had to pay his way to events and his regular day job was working at home depot to pay for his living and travels.

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The olympics don't take place very often, so I don't think that comparison really works. And I don't think it's fair to imply (and reinforce the prejudice) that having an onlyfans is undesirable or wrong and must be justified by necessity.

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Newsflash: it is absolutely not "normal" for sports to pay millions, or even just living wages. Even with soccer, it's only the small minority of players in the top leagues who can live from it comfortably, and even most of those don't get the huge payouts you read about. Pretty much any job where popularity is a big factor inevitably leads to this: a tiny minority attracts to crowds and has money thrown at them, the vast majority dream of making it while starving.

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I guess the thing is, to be able to compete at an Olympic level, those sports ARE jobs. So either a country should accept that they won’t even have a delegation, let alone any medals, or they should decide that they’re going to offer athletes fair compensation for the national pride and glory that they achieve. If we don’t want to pay them, fine, but then we’re not gonna have any olympians at all.

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OR we could have Olympics that are not so focused on gold medals, records and absolute top performance - you know, like it was supposed to be when the rule was that only amateur athletes could participate. Then people could be Olympians without having to make training a full-time job.

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Every job should pay a living wage.

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Doesn't work for athletes. You spend so little of your time doing the sport that a living wage, assessed hourly, will not feed you for a year.
So you need to make specific rules for sports if you care about it, and justify them, and justify why they're worth it for sports. That's going to be harder than the generic "[full time] jobs should pay enough to live off"

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They spend a lot of time practicing, exercising, etc. So it's not just the time spent competing that would count as work hours. But yeah you're probably right.

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So you would have to specifically make contracts for any job (are there any other than sports?) that require practice (generic practice rather than rehearsals) to also pay for the practice. Which yeah I think is not that strong and argument

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Right wingers: Olympics athletes have OnlyFans pages. This is an outrage!

Me: You're right, it is an outrage that the athletes we venerate as heroes for 1 month every 4 years need things like OnlyFans to be able to survive the other 47 months.

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Some of the top accounts are pulling in millions.

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Your moralizing is just as bad as theirs, no exceptions just because it skews in a different direction.

Sex work is work. Saying it's "evil" or saying "they had to do it" are both sides of the same shitty coin.

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At no point did I say, or imply, that sex wirk is bad. I'm lamenting the fact that the world's top ranked athletes need any type of second employment to survive while they are training to compete for their country on a world stage. We should be doing more to support our athletes.

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Yeah, saying "they had to do it out of necessity" is implying an agreement with the premise that it is bad to do, but that they're excused.

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So acknowledging that the world's top rank athletes need multiple jobs, on top of their training, in order to survive is a bad thing? Riiiiiight......

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Sex work is work. And national athetes shouldn't need second jobs. These facts can exist at the same time.

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Thank you. I at no point meant that sex work is bad. Just that the top ranked athletes shouldn't need a second job to subsidies their athletic pursuits.

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I don't think that's what people are objecting to. Is anyone taking issue with the with cheese lady is doing promoting cheese?

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I mean there's a huge difference between having/promoting a sponsorship and having 2nd/3rd jobs (which MANY of the Athletes, especially women, do). Most sponsorships require a time commitment of like 20-40 hrs/year. But sure, we could argue athletes shouldn't have to do sponsorships either. That's a fair take

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I'm arguing that not only should they get sponsorships, but they should also get subsidies from the countries they represent that way they don't need that 2nd or 3rd job. Training is a 40-60 hour per week endeavour for most of these athletes; that's their job, they shouldn't need another.

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