near constant critique that she was 'athletic' (remember this is code language, think: serena williams) compared to katerina witt.
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katerina witt was a 'real woman' who got calls from playboy and all this extra work based on her 'sexy' body-
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AND she got the competitive edge, bcz skating is notoriously biased towards so called 'feminine' bodies.
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which of course, typically means white, slender w/curves (but not TOO curvy cuz then ur just fat), 'soft', etc--
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debi was said to 'not look' like a figure skater, so she tried to work with that and chose upbeat athletic songs to skate to-
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which instantaneously worked against her, bcz skating is notoriously biased towards classical ballet russian style skating.
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and this is just 'surface' racism that debi had to deal with pretty much by herself, bcz she was the only black woman skater-
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her coach was white, even. in a sport that is notoriously biased against ur entire being.
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god only knows what happened behind the scenes that i didn't know to look for and cameras certainly weren't showing.
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and that's just in skating. what was going on in the 80s at elite colleges like stanford? what was going on in her profession?
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@RustBeltRebel She was catching heat fr other skaters for doing college and skating at same time, I know.
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