Fan Mail: Women Do Not Snowboard to be Sexually Harassed
This weekend, Frenchman and France’s third-most famous boarder Arthur Longo posted an Instagram video of himself tapping the asses of ski bunnies as he rode by. If you somehow missed it, better watch it now, it’s amusing:
Now we all had a good chuckle about this, reposted it, and then immediately forgot about as most people do in the Internet age. But apparently our readership is bigger than just 15 year old boys (and grown men who act like them.) In fact, it seems girls read this site now! Did you know they are allowed to snowboard? Anyway, while we’re being old fashioned, a few feathers have been ruffled by this video. And since we always like to let the people speak, here’s a letter from a (former) reader.
Dear Brooke,
I am writing this email to you in response to a video that Yobeat recently posted. It involves rider Arthur Longo being filmed slapping women on the ass while he’s on the slopes. Seriously? What the fuck? In the comments someone writes a comment that can be basically summed up as “he knows them, so it’s ok”. Nowhere in the video is it stated that he’s slapping female friends on the ass and not strangers. And who gives a shit if he does know them? I am so angry and disappointed that a company dedicated to the joys of riding would post a video that makes some riders feel like second class citizens. As a female rider, this video feels like a slap in the face. You may as well put up as banner on your page that says “Women riders don’t matter! Feel free to sexually harass them and touch their bodies without permission! Oh, but make sure to film it so we can post it and get a million likes on Facebook!” I work in the industry and i can tell you from personal experience that male riders heavily outweigh female riders; I’m sure that incidents like this contribute to that fact. Female riders don’t go the slopes to be sexually harassed. In fact, I’d say that most of them go there so they can forget about shit like that. To forget about their bad day, their shitty boss, the asshole creep on the street who told them to “smile, baby”. You should be teaching males to have respect for their female counterparts on the slopes, NOT that we are somehow there for their entertainment. Not that they can feel free to touch the private areas of our bodies without permission. I’m disappointed in you Yobeat. You have just lost a long-time supporter and I will absolutely be sharing this fucked-up blunder on your part. I expected more from you.
Angry and upset.
Five words we never thought we’d hear at Yobeat: “I expected more from you.”
how about a quadgender quad? each wheel has its own gender, imagine riding that bitch! hahahah!
Wait woman can snowboard? Thought there feet were so small (so they could get closer to the kitchen sink) that they couldn’t strap in.
skier butts anyway
Damn feminists
I would like to smell the glove!
Longo’s video was stupid, not even actually funny, and wrong. But the fact that Brooke Geery, (a woman) reposts it thinking it’s cool is even worse, and then tries to get laughs at someones actual discomfort is just kind of sick. What’s the point.
Now that’s just fucked up.
Slappin’ dat ass is the point!
Let me take a wild guess and bet that you are not a female…
Yo I showed this video to 2 snowboardin homies that are girls and Niether of them found it offensive it just some chicks are super sensitive of that shit lIke have a sence of humor girl come on!
me three
id beat off to dat
As a feminist myself, the whole ass-touching w/out consent is sexual harassment and is pretty fucked up but people need to realize that snowboarders and freeskiers are a fucking breed of their own and that trying to preach feminist values to them is generally a waste of time in a situation like this. What we CAN talk about is the piece of shit that tried to rape girls on the slopes in Colorado. There are more pressing concerns like that story than this fucking video which is clearly a joke.
this will do
*unzips pants
degradation? angry reader writes letter, gets it posted… what did I miss?
i’ll be at stevens this weekend tappin’ dudes booty’s. their will be videos.
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YES