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i dont know if anyone else would agree...
Not trying to sexist or whatever but i thought Male females, trans are supposed to equals in life and skating, but clearly we are not it seems to me that female and trans skaters get a free pass with putting out sub par footy and shitty little park, flatground clips on insta (clips i would be embarrased to post) and they have a laundry list of sponsors i mean cmon skating is a marketing scheme nowdays
For a Male skater been in these streets for years filming multiple parts not the gnarliest but still ight, your still not getting hooked up, not that i care to get hooked up i just see its way harder for males to boxes these days
Show us on the doll where mean ladies took your sponsors...
Haha zing!
Really like Maite. Got a cool spontaneous, high energy thing going on. I can see why people find her irritating, but her hype seems pretty genuine to me. Obviously playing it up for the camera a little, but why would they include clips of her quiet moments?
Regarding the discussion about differing standards for genders, I do agree that girl skaters have it pretty sweet. There was a bowl skating contest in my town last year, and someone funded it so that the prize money for the chicks matched that of the dudes. Girls were literally winning like $100 for carving the bowl for two minutes. I think it's a righteous thing though, just encouraging girls to enter. I've been hanging out with girl skaters more lately, and hearing from them has made me understand how intimidating it can be entering a male-dominated scene, especially considering that even the dudes who are friendly and approachable are sometimes low-key creeping on them. When the girl skating thing first started to take off, I thought that they were not very social because they wanted to be left alone. Now that I've made friends with a lot of them, I get that they were intimidated, which seems obvious now that I realise it, and can see why the double standard is a positive thing, and that my earlier cynicism was basically amounting to a bruised ego. Still get irritated when cats like Leo bitch about not making as much money as male skaters who often have to risk their lives regularly for a paycheck (if that), but maybe there's something there I don't understand yet.
All that said, I think Maite is the first female skater I've been hyped on without shades of 'good for a girl', or anything to do with the positive impact of more female skater exposure. Even though she's not as impressive as most male pros, she brings something different, and her skating is always entertaining. I think that when the female skating scene develops more, there's gonna be a new energy that is different than what we've seen already, even if they never match the tech/gnar standard of male pros. Like a new style or something, I dunno yet. But they've already brought a new energy to the scene where I live (and forced a lot of the dudes with questionable morals to check themselves) which is rad. Looking forward to seeing where it goes.