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NutAgain!

Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
Sep 26, 2016 - 02:54pm PT
I was thinking that $3000 vest looks a lot like the gingerbread man Halloween costume I made for my daughter a few years back, with some felt from Joanne's Fabric and Crafts. I think it was about $5-$10 per yard of material. Plus it had a variety of more compelling colors and it was super insulating! Maybe too much insulating?

That come-back article is hilarious and nails the idiocy and antiquated messaging from the first.
phylp

Trad climber
Upland, CA
Sep 26, 2016 - 04:37pm PT
When I first saw the GQ story I was astonished at the sexism. I had really hoped that we had moved beyond that. The macho rock climbing guys in their fancy clothes with the girls who sit there and swoon over them, half-naked. It's disgusting. Am I the only one who had this reaction?

Yes I think most of us did have that reaction. But thank you Mike, for saying it out loud.
Ghost

climber
A long way from where I started
Sep 26, 2016 - 05:47pm PT
When I first saw the GQ story I was astonished at the sexism.

When I first saw it, the thing that astonished me was that they hadn't asked me to participate...

patrick compton

Trad climber
van
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 27, 2016 - 04:14am PT
kneepads are always in style for aspiring 'Adventure Visionaries'
cleo

Social climber
wherever you go, there you are
Sep 27, 2016 - 07:27am PT
I was enjoying it until I noticed they added 2 women... who weren't climbers.

Oh well. There are so many beautiful lady climbers out there, I don't really get it.
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Sep 28, 2016 - 07:28am PT
I'm with Freddie, sheesh!

I just now looked at this for the first time, appalling!

I'd seen the OR one a few days ago, without having the lame, real deal one, for context. I thought it was sort of dumb, now that I see what they were parodying I think it's pretty clever, and funny.

That other one though, it's like early MTV of something.

Can't sink too low to make a buck, I guess.

Flat out depressing!
cleo

Social climber
wherever you go, there you are
Sep 28, 2016 - 07:44am PT
OR for the Win!

http://www.outdoorresearch.com/blog/stories/we-took-falls-crunchiest-designer-clothes-to-watch-ladies-rock-climbing-in



Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Sep 28, 2016 - 08:05am PT

Sep 25, 2016 - 03:53pm PT
Crunchiest?

Just ask any self-disrespecting hAngel how he collected his red wings.
Still chewing on this I was raised on wonder bread



Brandon-

climber
The Granite State.

Sep 26, 2016 - 01:30pm PT
Maybe I'm the only one who got ZBrowns reference, but it's both funny and gross at the same time.


perswig

climber

Sep 26, 2016 - 02:35pm PT
zBrown's a sly one, alright, Brandon.

Voodoo sez you're tied to that woman for life.
Ups the ante a bit more, no?

Dale

Still so left wondering?

Scratching my head at the whole thing.
We wore down jackets patched with tape of many 'genres'
Not just ~ but grey cloth duct, tape would save the world .
Black electrical came cloth or a cross, or all plastic.
some wore it thicker than others.

To this day my pajam bottoms see my best dressed days,
the worst dressed days are the most regular and always include
a dirty but ripped pair of of kaki cargo pants. They need a patch already tis year.

Ive always loved to blend. I spent dollars to by green and grey and because it fit Quartzite
and Granit, variations from black to white.

There was a always a tie dye if the splash of color fit , I had a old pic of my rugby ? It was that off yellow, almost 'mustard' colored, kinda, subdued border of grey then the white stripes. . . .
I can't find the picture? .
patrick compton

Trad climber
van
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 28, 2016 - 10:01am PT
Can't sink too low to make a buck, I guess.

Flat out depressing!

Think the 'Adventure Visionaries' are based out of Boulder?

I'm thinking this the problem.
patrick compton

Trad climber
van
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 29, 2016 - 06:37am PT
side by side with a fun comments section

http://blog.thedyrt.com/camp/week-gq-published-sexist-climbing-piece-outdoor-research-stepped-perfect-response/

Elias, Woods, and Chin are strangely silent on social media.... hmmm....

maybe the Adventure Visionaries are too busy stroking their $3500 sherpa vests?
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Sep 29, 2016 - 07:29am PT
From the same culture that brought you Trump!
Go figure.
" it's classy, throw some boobs in there, I'm the king of good taste."


And to be fair, DMT, as hired guns, they didn't know how it would turn out. I'd like to think they wouldn't have done it, if they could have seen the finished result. It's certainly not going to help their credibility from here on out. Their climbing credentials are impeccable, but their judgement will now always be in question.
Mike Friedrichs

Sport climber
City of Salt
Sep 29, 2016 - 07:51am PT
That's interesting. I wondered about that. Did they really not know how it would turn out or did they just sell out for the money?
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Sep 29, 2016 - 08:04am PT
Its not porno after all.
It's not? Maybe just obscene?

Good question, Mike. We'll never really know. I've worked on a number of movies, photo shoots, interviews etc. and you never know what spin the final decider is going to put on it.
They might not have known they were pimping themselves for GQ, or that that was a $3500 dollar sweater, etc even.
Dick Cilley got like Fifty bucks to be in a photo in French Vogue on a bike with two flats, with a pile of gear in Josh. He took what he could get....
patrick compton

Trad climber
van
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 29, 2016 - 08:21am PT
Its not porno after all.

at least porn is blatantly sexist. I have a hard time buying that they didn't know there were female models that were paid to be eye candy.

They degraded the sport of climbing and marginalized women as objects at the same time.

They would be stupid to not know the type of mag GQ is.... and they turned out looking like total D-bags. Hope the cash payoff from the 1% was worth selling their souls for.
patrick compton

Trad climber
van
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 29, 2016 - 08:28am PT
I said porn=sexist, where do you get sexist=porn?

However, there is women produced porn now, so one could make the case that porn isn't necessarily sexist.
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Sep 29, 2016 - 08:30am PT
You want to elaborate on that? How as this particular example, not, porn? Total objectifying of women, they didn't climb, they just posed with their shirts open. How is that, Not, porn? Albeit soft core.



offwidthist style man

Hmmm? If they gave me one of those sweaters I could sell it to put a new motor in my 4Runner!
yanqui

climber
Balcarce, Argentina
Sep 29, 2016 - 09:30am PT
Just so you know, patrick compton: that kind of logic will be highly frowned upon in math class.
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