John Schmidt
I am sorry, but EWWW ! I wouldn't want to see that.
On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 2:59 AM EAL via OBRA wrote:
> With all due respect to both sides of the argument, I saw those lights up
> close and they didn't look like "those kind" of balls. Not to offend
> anyone, and by way of illustration only, these are "those kind" of bike
> light balls.
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> Ed
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> On Thursday, September 20, 2018, 7:13:46 PM PDT, Adam Kachman via OBRA <
> obra@list.obra.org> wrote:
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> Agree completely. While it may not have been the direct intent the effect
> was the equivalent of seeing a pair of them hanging off the trailer hitch
> of some dudes truck... I'm sure / I hope that they simply wanted a way to
> provide safety lights for the later races, but the optics were not great
> and one does not have to make a cognitive leap to land on associating them
> with men and all of the tropes that go along with it. OBRA can and needs to
> do better in many ways, and this is one of them.
>
> Everyone out there needs to be acknowledging, respecting, and empowering
> all of our WTF athletes from the governing body, to promoters, teams,
> participants, and spectators.
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