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Sonnie Trotter Goes Down on Tasmania 18-Feb-2016 At 9:25:19 PM johny

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On 18/02/2016 Vwills wrote:
>Your attempt at humour was funnier than the pisstake on thesarvo which
>seeks to be funny by calling Sonnie "Sonia". That's just plain misogynistic
>even though I suspect the person posting it would deny this.
>Maybe the pressure to be posting "new" ascents is driven by the need for
>sponsorship and having to keep things newsworthy on social media. He has
>succeeded on that front anyhow. Same with the totem pole hype. But he wasn't
>trying to hide anything, and gave people their dues.

Yeah I thought thesarvo thing was funny at first but Anna-Veronique quickly pointed out the misogyny. I doubt that the author intended it that way... funny how insidious the patriarchy seeps in. At the end of the day, this may have been the most offensive thing to come out of the whole c--khead crack! I am against the kind of PC thuggery from the "good" dr. types who oppose being critical of anyone else unless you think someone is being critical and then its open season... BUT I totally respect that a casual comment like the Sonia thing could piss off a lot of people. Anna was hot!

You may be correct about those reasons although I reckon Sonny is above that crap which is why I was surprised about the ffa toprope stuff. And I didnt feel like he gave people(well really the route) their dues until the end when he basically retracted the whole FFA idea.

and for the dr. I guess you dont have an opinion or care about top-roped first ascents but I do. Yes it is probably hard for you(and most people reading this I imagine) to believe that people actually take climbing seriously. So is it a crime to be narky now, whatever the F that is suppose mean? I already gave a bullet point list complete with precedence and forensic evidence. What more do you want? Your only contribution to any of this was basically a rude "I dont want to hear it" as if my concerns were totally irrelevant. Well it was important to me, everyone I know that climbs 5.13 and certainly Sonny.