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bookworm
Social climber
Falls Church, VA
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Nov 18, 2014 - 07:27am PT
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get a grip; if you don't like it, don't climb it
http://www.nationalreview.com/slideshows/392834
cry about route names and a nerdy scientist wearing an obnoxious shirt that was actually made by a woman and ignore female genital mutilation, honor killings, isis sex slaves, the burqa, killing girls just for attending school, etc.
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lars johansen
Trad climber
West Marin, CA
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Nov 18, 2014 - 08:13am PT
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What's wrong with Beavis and Butthead?
lars
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kev
climber
A pile of dirt.
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Nov 18, 2014 - 08:14am PT
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Locker,
Doesn't this just make you want to go put up a route called
"Blue Butt Plug in her Botty with Diamonds"?
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anita514
Gym climber
Great White North
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Nov 18, 2014 - 08:23am PT
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I'm going to put up a route called Little Dick, Hairy Moobies
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kev
climber
A pile of dirt.
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Nov 18, 2014 - 08:32am PT
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Maybe it's a troll for route names?
Almost always there's a story behind a route name.
Spider - YOU ARE TROLLING RIGHT?
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steelmnkey
climber
Vision man...ya gotta have vision...
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Nov 18, 2014 - 08:35am PT
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Edit: But the gal with the big naked ass to my right advertizing on ST....that I might have a problem with Chris Mac.
It's pretty humorous that people don't get that the ads they see are context sensitive to whatever the user has been digging around for online. Not sure what the relationship is between you and the Kardiashian-azz they're serving up for you, but it's out of ChrisMac's hands.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Nov 18, 2014 - 08:37am PT
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If it is paronomasian and funny then it is OK.
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Fat Dad
Trad climber
Los Angeles, CA
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Nov 18, 2014 - 08:37am PT
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Please don't encourage them Cancer Boy.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Nov 18, 2014 - 08:46am PT
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My last three climb names are:
Sausage Fest
No Man Hands Here!
Whiny Boys
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Jingy
climber
Somewhere out there
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Nov 18, 2014 - 08:51am PT
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Thank you for being better than Beavis and Butthead.
SS - I agree that we tend to think of ourselves as better than an example of teenage behavior in animation...
Unfortunately, we don't get the world we long for unless we move it that way.
The route names reflect only too clearly the mindset of the climber - then and now.
Maybe we can also move the parties you seem to want to protect into a world where they understand that a route name is nothing other than a name given by someone who is not them... Maybe they will learn to understand. Maybe they will look at a cliff and not see the graffittied names of the routes at their bases...
So I agree - The parties involved need to grow up and act responsible for themselves.
When we started climbing we did not enter charm school like some may believe. Then, I need to point out that the sport of climbing itself is only how old in American/World history?
Has it had a chance to mature? Evidence says no..........
Sorry, I'll butt out now
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Nov 18, 2014 - 08:56am PT
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Warbler nails it (or is that sexist?)
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kev
climber
A pile of dirt.
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Nov 18, 2014 - 08:57am PT
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Those that don't name routes or only name a few don't understand the challenges of coming up with a name.
^^^ +1
And often the juvenile sounding ones might have a story and a very non juvenile reason for choosing that name.
I think this thread should really be called "50 Shades of Gay"
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Nov 18, 2014 - 09:00am PT
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Ask these guys;
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 18, 2014 - 09:03am PT
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The greatest example of route-naming with blatant sexual connotation/innuendo of which I can think is in my own "back yard" (WHOA, that's a good one!) or the "climbers' playpen" (there's another one!) known as "The Ditch."
The combination of The Nutcracker with CSC (I'm being polite--just because I could have written out the "proper" name does not mean I need to use it.) was a "stroke of genius." (This is like fish in the barrel.)
Here, take and use this in my name for your immortalization.
"Ditch Bitch."
Use it with my blessings, as long as the rating is "crazy hard" but enjoyable.
And where in the heck are your pictures, "horn-dogs." Oops, did it again!
There is no intended sexual connotation to Lenna's Lieback, named for my dear sister, though dirty minds have suggested this. For shame, but Shalom, anyway! :0)
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Jingy
climber
Somewhere out there
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Nov 18, 2014 - 09:19am PT
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Just thought of another angle...
If we are saying that there are too many sexist route names out there...
Are we only saying that the names are sexist against women? or for Men?
Or wait... there are a lot of route names... all, most (how many routes have been put up by women, and how many of them were named by women)... Were the women's route names as sexist in nature?
I'm just saying, taking into consideration of the activity...
all it's participants...
the age of the sport...
in the country where the names have come up as a topic of discussion...
it would all seem to fit that some would find the names that people said were the names of routes they had climbed to be somewhat offensive or sexist... it also stands to reason that sometimes the kids would name things as kids would name things...
Hopefully the reviewers of climbing can get past the name calling to appreciate the true beauty of climbing and all that it offers
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Tvash
climber
Seattle
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Nov 18, 2014 - 09:22am PT
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There's an entire chapter devoted to this in "Our hearts, our bodies, our selves"
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 18, 2014 - 09:38am PT
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^^^ Locker's favorite! ^^^
You beg for it, man. :0)
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apogee
climber
Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
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Nov 18, 2014 - 09:38am PT
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This is a tough place to suggest such a thing, Spidey, but good on ya for trying.
"Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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