Mark Rippetoe says: she needs to be placed in sexual slavery

[losingfaith]

@meow69 Holy crap I had no idea. Thank you for sharing, I'm never recommending his stuff again

 

[jenniferscott]

@meow69 I had no idea he was this toxic and this awful. Thanks for posting.

 

[elalpilot07]

@meow69 Thank you for bringing this to our attention. SS is what got me into weightlifting. I never really followed his presence online so I had no idea.

I don’t think it’s offtopic, I don’t think you’re overthinking it. This is important to know. How can you trust someone’s training advice for your gender if that’s what he thinks?! All I knew prior was that he didn’t really highlight how women should train differently for strength. Now I’m going to really, consciously, focus on other coaches/specialists/etc that actually give a damn about all genders (and people)!

I’m still floored. Just wow.

 

[lauret]

@elalpilot07 Did you end up finding one? If so name it here

 

[prophetic774]

@meow69 Never heard of the guy but I always heard bad reviews about starting strength in general that boil down to "very bad programing and concepts". I don't think anything of value was lost

 

[growhart]

@meow69 Buy his programmes secondhand or pirate them online. Cunt needs to be boycotted but there’s still a way to use his stuff.

 

[judd]

@meow69 A female oly lifter and coach who used to train at his gym has described Rip keeping a shotgun in his gym and being excited to bring it out when a black guy showed up to train, so we can add $h!tty r@ci$t to the list as well. This was from at least 10 years back, although I can't find the post right now.

Edited to exclude the coach's name

 

[meow69]

@judd That's really f-ed up.

I feel like he'd always tread the line carefully about POC specifically while still attacking immigrants (legal and undocumented) in general, so it's not surprising to hear that in real life he's much more clear about where he stands.

With racists. He stands with racists.

 

[birddseedd]

@meow69 Yeah, he's been known to be awful for a while. Also, fun fact, years ago he wrote terrible (rapey) erotica under a pseudonym and apparently you'll get banned if you mention it on his forums

 

[xelador]

@birddseedd Jesus this guy is sick. I’m wondering how people figured out it was him.

 

[birddseedd]

@xelador If you go look in the YouTube comments and the reddit thread linked in the video description, it turns out he is too dumb to remove his email signature from posts.

 

[xelador]

@birddseedd Lmfao I knew it was going to be something stupid like that.

 

[meow69]

@birddseedd I love but also hate that this gets brought up. It's Mark Rippetoe's fantasy rape porn. He hates women. Thank you for posting this, I can't believe there are women out there who support the Starting Strength brand.

 

[flis]

@birddseedd That is so weird and funny, but also horrible.

 

[volcanoinsurance]

@meow69 Oh my goooddd I looked up to this dude. His SS program gave me the confidence to lift, alone as a girl and make some respectable gains. Ew. So creepy.