My Last Article for 2014: "Fear and Hostility Between Athletes"

[Anders JP Eskilsson]

Fear and Hostility Between Athletes

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By Anders JP Eskilsson

The new competition season has begun and the first scorecard has been already been submitted and put into the history books. The stage lights are fading, the judges along with the audience are ready to leave the venue and the athletes have finally washed away the last spots of spray tan. Something is missing though and this is Fat Lady and her last song at the end of each show.

The thing is – she never sings his last song inside these venues, because the show never stops – it has only just begun – and continues in the dark lobbies of the competition season.

This leads us to the purpose of this article – which is fear and hostility between athletes. This issue that we are about to focus on do exist to some extent in every female division in the industry. I’m talking about the warfare going on in the darkness – the sort of backstabbing both in the open and inside the closed groups – throughout on social media and on platonic levels...

Read the full article @ http://www.ironmagazine.com/2014/fea...ween-athletes/

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[Musclepapa John]

Can you give an example?

[Anders JP Eskilsson]

Can you give an example?

Revealing sources or situations is not part of the idea behind this article.

[Ibarramedia]

Can you give an example?

How about you? Do you have some examples you would care to share?

[Musclepapa John]

I actually don't think women are any more or less prone to this than men. Particularly at the pro level its the men that are joked about being covered up when training and not letting you see more than an ankle (exaggeration for effect) prior to hitting the stage. The women likewise tend on the whole to be easier to work with than the men less anal about being captured with guts hanging out not showing their best angles, etc.
So no I can't give much of an example in this regard ALTHOUGH I indeed do know most of the top gals are highly competitive. Nothing to the extent of high profile conflicts as shown by Kai & Phil at the Olympia press conference & on stage though.

[Ibarramedia]

There is respectful competition and competitiveness and there is just plain animosity.

[Musclepapa John]

There is respectful competition and competitiveness and there is just plain animosity.

True. I still think we see that more commonly amongst men. Then again who are we to judge unless it gets really actionably nasty and physical? My daughter is ex-military and can be as cantakeraous as any alpha male and she's a devote and degreed feminist, but from philosophy studies I recall the train of thought that aggressiveness in all manner is basically a male characteristic and that matriarchy for instance doesn't exist in purest form as its merely a mimicking of patriarchal male dominance.

[Ibarramedia]

True. I still think we see that more commonly amongst men. Then again who are we to judge unless it gets really actionably nasty and physical? My daughter is ex-military and can be as cantakeraous as any alpha male and she's a devote and degreed feminist, but from philosophy studies I recall the train of thought that aggressiveness in all manner is basically a male characteristic and that matriarchy for instance doesn't exist in purest form as its merely a mimicking of patriarchal male dominance.

I was not disagreeing with that. I think the animosity part comes from the moen more than the women. I should have quoted thisearleir when I replied.

Nothing to the extent of high profile conflicts as shown by Kai & Phil at the Olympia press conference & on stage though.