Linford Christie's reaction

Aw, lovely LangCleg. I missed the actual race coz I was running up and down my living room pretending I was him. (I was a tiny kid btw!)

Obvs Linford is ‘wtf are you talking about?’ Not sure how this could be misinterpreted

I think we should at least have the gold medal video!

I cried when he won!

Go Linford! Don't have time to RTFT at the moment but I don't know why people are calling him an idiot/stupid?

Well if linford christie is reading

' do you remember meeting my husband? He is an accountant...short with dark hair. You would have had to look down....a lot!!! So much so you may have been expecting to shake hands with a child'

(Not showing dh this thtead )

I am personally loving all the sports people speaking out, Linford Christie included, because the conversation around this has definitely changed since they all started speaking out.

Yes Cloven, I sort of just want this thread to get a few more 'isn't Linford Christie great' type posts now. It's important that the few questionable posts were questioned and people apologised but I feel like appreciation for him and his reply have been lost.

(If it matters to anyone, I'm mixed race)

I can’t stop thinking that this would be an awful experience for Linford Christie if he opened this thread.

Me too!! I’m absolutely staggered that anyone took that as anything other than the normal reaction of anybody encountering the racism and batshittery of all this for the first time!

That Gif is brilliant. How do you make them?!

Cloven You’re right, of course.

I wonder how on Earth any media can interview McKinnon after this appropriation of black women and the gross comments regarding Sharron Davies looking like a man. Did McKinnon not get a last minute interview cancellation? I think I saw that earlier in the thread. Mckinnons 15 minutes might be up.

I thought this GIF was great.

mobile.twitter.com/kleephotography/status/1105084450193444866

I can’t stop thinking that this would be an awful experience for Linford Christie if he opened this thread.

Obviously I don’t have authority or standing to say what anyone should be talking about, and I don’t want to shut down valid and needed discussion about racist tropes and the subtle and less subtle ways that racist assumptions can manifest, but if the discussion has been had, is there any way to get the thread back on track instead of this being a thread about itself?

At my old gym, someone that worked there exclusively dated black men and made it known. The conversations staff had in general about black men’s genitalia was awful- and members like myself were exposed to loud conversations like this. For me to be shocked over something like that is not easy because my family is Polynesian and the way people back home talk about Polynesian bodies is pretty horrific too, people would say stuff to me about my own brother’s genitals ffs... I’ve just never seen staff gather round and make it so bloody obvious and loud. All the laughing and stuff... and managers included.

JFC I hadn’t read most of the thread
SarahJConnor & ToxtethO
I’m actually speechless

I don't think you have anything to apologise for, Mankyfoot . You brought a new development in the shit show that is Rachel McKinnon to everyone's attention. It is AF's post that has started the initial tangent from the main issue.

SarahJConnor bloody hell, people are just ignorant to the point of evil. I am Asian and I have had all sorts of assumptions that I am a gold digger/am willing to fuck a bloke 25 different ways as per the Karma Sutra and then will happily cook them a curry afterwards/ am demure and subservient (mostly from blokes who are of the woke variety); but your experiences and those of your mum - plain evil.

Jaw dropped. I only saw the initial post about the tweet, and assumed there had been further positive developments to warrant the post count. And now I'm reading about sarahjconnor's experiences of the things people have actually uttered wrt black people and genitals, and I feel like sitting blankly with a cup of tea for the rest of the evening and wondering why people can be so awful.

I agree Lweji it is ludricous it can't get more stupid that what it is. This kind of this is a real threat to women's sport. You have XY chromosomes you play against the men with the same type of body as you, same, transmen should play against women. They probably would be happy with that as they would not really stand a chance against biological men.

Oh. That's a shame.

I took the first reply to imply that McK, not LC was an idiot.

Except that there's a second post "explaining" it as:
"Thinking about that comment again, I would like to know more about the context. It could be taken a different way if Linford is not as thick as he seems."

Which suggests the first Fucking idiot was either for both or to LC for disagreeing with McK.

I think WTF is difficult to misinterpret

Anyway did you see John Regis has commented
mobile.twitter.com/Jregismbe1/status/1105008244727185408

I took the first reply to imply that McK, not LC was an idiot.