Gabrielle Reece: I May Be Feminine, But I’m Not a ‘Doormat’

New York Post ^ | July 15, 2015 | Mara Siegler

[nickcarraway]

Gabrielle Reece, the pro volleyball player married to surfer Laird Hamilton, recently caused a stir by writing, “to truly be feminine means being soft, receptive . . . submissive” and she isn’t backing down.

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she stuck to her guns in Beach magazine: “In my experience, being a strong woman, but being with an ­alpha-type male, I found an easier flow when I assumed a more feminine role inside the home. Which doesn’t mean a doormat.”

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[Sherman Logan]

Just took a look at your home page.

Thanks for agreeing that I’m generally polite despite being someone “who loves to call folks bigot or racist.” I assume your list is of those you think ought to be kicked off the site.

Best wishes on your trip through CO. Used to live in SW CO and northern NM. Freepmail me for local insight. Albeit 20 years out of date. :)

[Sherman Logan]

That this even needs saying is remarkable.

Masculine and feminine are adjectives similar to large/small, good/bad, short/tall. They only have meaning in contrast to their opposite. Don’t know the correct term for this type of adjective.

Feminists are right to say that many human characteristics are neither masculine nor feminine. But those are human characteristics, not sex/gender based ones.

Femininity only exists insofar as it is contrasted with and complemented by masculinity.

Wish I knew the right terms. :)

[Old Sarge]

She’ll still vote for Obama when he runs again...

[Old Sarge]

Are they sure she didn’t say “I may be feminine, but I still vote Democrat.”

[CatherineofAragon]

See...this is why I enjoy your posts.

Perfect.

[wardaddy]

You’re smart and polite and write well

And unflappable

A quality I lack and admire in others

[wardaddy]

Thanks

We’re home

And I find I don’t wake up gasping like I always do in Leadville or Ouray or Telluride

I could not get over the tourism surrounding the now called Alpine Loop between Silverton....grown by leaps.....Ouray and Lake City

In the 70s you took your chances up on those old mining roads at 12-13,000 and no one was out there

In 75 we’d park in some old shaft and scramble up a 14er and just camp and dig the awesomeness

Especially stars....and July heavy snowfal.....in an old Subaru 4wd

Now it’s a logjam like Everest in August below the Hillary steps

But it was still so much fun and being with just my two oldest boys

Gunnison has changed a little bit

Montrose is metropolitan

Glenwood Springs grown

Leadville about the same

Buena Vista and Salida ...grown

Durango which I love....really very Texas and California money now...lotsa purty wimmin

Santa Fe....a place of my DNA.....OLD TOWN....same....sprawl....bad....too many weirdos

Taos.....good lord the sprawl

Chama.....still Chama thank God and Ouray too

Telluride......they hide it up in Telluride I swear it’s here to stay.....really grown

Rural Colorado is still conservative outside the arts areas.....I talked to folks as I’m prone and everybody love to talk about Nashville

Not an easier town to be from when traveling it’s an ice breaker even with the most bull dyke timberland carhartt wearing lebezian woman

I learned rural mountain land is pricey.......10,000 an acre on a good road

I also most importantly learned these points

In Dixie pick up truck four wheelers rule as does John Deere and plenty four trackers

In the high mountains....it’s Polaris Polaris and Polaris

Pickups are Dodge Ram mostly....which is fine by me

And serious off road is a Jeep Wrangler or CJ5 type gear or Toyota if a bigger budget

Very few old land rovers or nissans

Say a few budget old school Isuzu troopers crawling along

All that says something

[Osage Orange]

Old news.............

She was vocal about this...a long time ago.

Laird is an epic surfer..and someone I've admired for many, many years.

[Osage Orange]

I would disagree...with the nice guy's finish last part.

Men...can be nice..and still be men.

Happens all the time!!

[archy]

And I find I don’t wake up gasping like I always do in Leadville or Ouray or Telluride

I could not get over the tourism surrounding the now called Alpine Loop between Silverton....grown by leaps.....Ouray and Lake City

Hope you got to chat with the former mayor of Ouray while you were out thataway. You happen to get top Ridgeway while running the *million-dollar highway?

[archy]

Gabrielle Reece, the pro volleyball player married to surfer Laird Hamilton, recently caused a stir by writing, “to truly be feminine means being soft, receptive . . . submissive” and she isn’t backing down.

Surfie gurls? Vollyball players? Pffft. Right.

USAF fems:

Door gunner:

USAF Warthawg driver Kim Campbell, callsign *Killer Chick*:

USAF Security Police sniper Senior Airman Polly-Jan Bobseine:

Not USAF; British field medic Corp. Cerianne Brown in Afghanistan treating the Afghan kids. Nick, thisn's for you:

[archy]

In Dixie pick up truck four wheelers rule as does John Deere and plenty four trackers

In the high mountains....it’s Polaris Polaris and Polaris

Four-wheeler ATVs or snow machines? Or is it seasonal?

[wardaddy]

Quads.... dry track stuff

Not so much for mud or snow but it was July

Here in bumpy middle Tennessee it’s Deere and Mules and Polaris

And 4wd pickups or FJs way more than wranglers

I own a wrangler title but it’s in upper Mitch

We had an old 1952 Willys

I like em fine

I love old FJs best and wyfes old land cruiser rox

[archy]

Quads.... dry track stuff

Not so much for mud or snow but it was July

In eastern Wyoming we call such trails two-tracks from the ruts, usually with grass growing pretty well in between 'em.

In neighboring South Dakota, the state line of which is only about 3/4 of a mile from my place, they have a new license class for tracked snowmobiles/ snow machines converted from motorcycles. Which can operate in that grassy space between the ruts, or in one of the ruts, if need be.

I'm thinking about it.