Twitter’s In Meltdown As Men Try To Teach Olympic Gold Medalist The Proper Way To Hold A Gun
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Vitalina Batsarashkina, who is a 24-year-old Russian sports shooter, won a gold medal in the now ongoing Tokyo Olympics. People all around the world were fascinated by her calm stance depicted in the picture showing her during the competition. However, this was what also stirred a debate on Twitter.
Twitter member @Blankzilla shared a picture of Vitalina during the game expressing her astonishment at how calmly she stands with a gun in one hand and the other in her pocket. Soon, a few know-it-alls started commenting on the athlete’s position and the way she holds the gun, saying that she does it wrong. The mansplaining soon was shut down by other members who happened to be experienced shooters or were merely into this sport.
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People online were amazed by this Olympic sports shooter and her stance during the competition
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This young sportswoman, who started sports shooting at 12 years old, has already won two gold medals and a silver medal in the Tokyo Olympics. She’s been gaining a lot of international recognition since the 2014 European Junior Championships. Since she was little, she was interested in more masculine activities such as hunting, fishing, and shooting. She learned how to use a gun before she turned 10 years old, which seems to be the very start of her sports shooter career.
Some Twitter members started mansplaining the shooter’s standing technique
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People online started debunking mansplainers by sharing their own experiences and knowledge
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Shooting sports require posture stability and accuracy in aiming and triggering. For this reason, air pistol shooters try to maintain a relaxed body position. This is why sports shooters are seen with one hand in their pocket, as according to one of the Twitter users, it “helps stop any body wobble.” Another prominent critique was that holding a gun with one arm could break her wrist. According to Olympics shooting rules, athletes have to shoot using one hand only, and using an air pistol won’t break their wrist.
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It takes a lot of courage to critique a professional with two gold medals
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"she'll break her wrist the first time she shoots". Yeah, cause that's how the olympics works. They get a whole bunch of people who have never fired a gun but want to give it a go to come into the stadium and let them firea gun for the first time ever and see how it turns out.
The ignorance in this is epic. Those aren't even standard handguns. They're competition. And you aren't getting much recoil off them.... I could go on, but why bother?
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Not sure if you understand the comment or not...
I'm not sure you do, Leo was agreeing with her.
@LuckyL, you shoot much? I got a gun handed to me (.22 single shot bolt-action) when I was 10, and the thirty-ought when I was 12, and the 9mm semiauto pistol when I was 13. The critics of the Gold Medalist Olympian? Obviously learned their guns from idiots. I was taught to shoot with the 9mm same stance they have, single-handed, or traditional two-handed. Competition guns are designed differently from "real-life", and even so, the *rules are the same*. So, yeah, I was agreeing it's epic ignorance from the armchair experts. Go look up "gun fails" on youtube. You'll find the experts there.
Yay....America.
And it's not like those are .44 Magnum hand cannons they are firing either. It's just like Leo Domitrix said about the recoil.
haha i nearly choked on this comment :D
Honestly, I would watch that.
This person has reached the Olympic. Why are these arm chair quarterbacks expressing opinions on someone who has already proven themselves an effective shooter
Women aren't "supposed" to be able to shoot. Didn't you know?
Apparently nobody ever told Lyudmila Pavlichenko.
Or my mother. She was a crack shot - and every man who ever found out that yes, she DID hunt deer successfully with a single shot .22 rifle accused her of lying. She would just laugh and tell them that if you know what you're doing, all the massive guns in the world are meaningless.
@Aunt Messy, yep. I did love our thirty-ought (beautiful old Winchester handed down in the family)..... No fancy scopes, no fancy recoilless whatever, blah blah blah ----- that's all "toy store" (my gramps). Tho' vegetarian I hunted to help feed my carnivore family, and I still miss the old .22 most. Aces for small game, fowl. Never used it on deer, but I can see you can do that. It's about the shot, not the gun (to quote my gramps yet again)
I like your gramps!
Nor Annie Oakley or Calamity Jane LOL
I dunno. Because it doesn't SAY she's in the Olympics? Because she's using a very unique stance for a very unique situation that would be inadvisable for real-world scenarios? (I'm not saying that... that's what people are saying.) Of all the hoopla, there's precisely ONE image actually criticizing her (Prof. Wren). Are we just training people to be touchy? Most said she looked cool, and she was EXACTLY trying to be cool, albeit for a very good reason.
The article says, "Since she was little, she was interested in more masculine activities such as hunting, fishing, and shooting." There is nothing inherently masculine about any of these things. Unless you have to use your penis to operate a gun, fishing rod, or bow, there is no reason to gender these sports as masculine. The whole article is about how a woman is a gold medalist in a sport, and yet you assign the sport(s) to men. Come on now.
I was taken fishing first time when I was 4. I wasn't old enough to have a voice in the matter or if it was boy-girl stuff. We had to eat. I was gonna have to learn. Where I grew up, girls commonly drove tractors, hunted, fished, etc. Irks me when it's seen as "man stuff". I was a better pistol shot than my father, and did better at small game hunting by far.
Now that is well said Candice.
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Yeah, their called "masculine activities" because they are typically done by a male rather than a female (though that obviously doesn't mean only men can do it) so stop getting offended so easily, GEEZ
..and yet by your very tone YOU are offended yourself at the women’s responses. Stop getting offended so easily. GEEZ.
Tanish D SIlva, first learn the difference between their/they're/there and then explain your attitude. Geez, I hate it when 2nd graders don't pay attention to class and start commenting things on the internet trying to sound like a "big kid".
"she'll break her wrist the first time she shoots". Yeah, cause that's how the olympics works. They get a whole bunch of people who have never fired a gun but want to give it a go to come into the stadium and let them firea gun for the first time ever and see how it turns out.
The ignorance in this is epic. Those aren't even standard handguns. They're competition. And you aren't getting much recoil off them.... I could go on, but why bother?
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
Not sure if you understand the comment or not...
I'm not sure you do, Leo was agreeing with her.
@LuckyL, you shoot much? I got a gun handed to me (.22 single shot bolt-action) when I was 10, and the thirty-ought when I was 12, and the 9mm semiauto pistol when I was 13. The critics of the Gold Medalist Olympian? Obviously learned their guns from idiots. I was taught to shoot with the 9mm same stance they have, single-handed, or traditional two-handed. Competition guns are designed differently from "real-life", and even so, the *rules are the same*. So, yeah, I was agreeing it's epic ignorance from the armchair experts. Go look up "gun fails" on youtube. You'll find the experts there.
Yay....America.
And it's not like those are .44 Magnum hand cannons they are firing either. It's just like Leo Domitrix said about the recoil.
haha i nearly choked on this comment :D
Honestly, I would watch that.
This person has reached the Olympic. Why are these arm chair quarterbacks expressing opinions on someone who has already proven themselves an effective shooter
Women aren't "supposed" to be able to shoot. Didn't you know?
Apparently nobody ever told Lyudmila Pavlichenko.
Or my mother. She was a crack shot - and every man who ever found out that yes, she DID hunt deer successfully with a single shot .22 rifle accused her of lying. She would just laugh and tell them that if you know what you're doing, all the massive guns in the world are meaningless.
@Aunt Messy, yep. I did love our thirty-ought (beautiful old Winchester handed down in the family)..... No fancy scopes, no fancy recoilless whatever, blah blah blah ----- that's all "toy store" (my gramps). Tho' vegetarian I hunted to help feed my carnivore family, and I still miss the old .22 most. Aces for small game, fowl. Never used it on deer, but I can see you can do that. It's about the shot, not the gun (to quote my gramps yet again)
I like your gramps!
Nor Annie Oakley or Calamity Jane LOL
I dunno. Because it doesn't SAY she's in the Olympics? Because she's using a very unique stance for a very unique situation that would be inadvisable for real-world scenarios? (I'm not saying that... that's what people are saying.) Of all the hoopla, there's precisely ONE image actually criticizing her (Prof. Wren). Are we just training people to be touchy? Most said she looked cool, and she was EXACTLY trying to be cool, albeit for a very good reason.
The article says, "Since she was little, she was interested in more masculine activities such as hunting, fishing, and shooting." There is nothing inherently masculine about any of these things. Unless you have to use your penis to operate a gun, fishing rod, or bow, there is no reason to gender these sports as masculine. The whole article is about how a woman is a gold medalist in a sport, and yet you assign the sport(s) to men. Come on now.
I was taken fishing first time when I was 4. I wasn't old enough to have a voice in the matter or if it was boy-girl stuff. We had to eat. I was gonna have to learn. Where I grew up, girls commonly drove tractors, hunted, fished, etc. Irks me when it's seen as "man stuff". I was a better pistol shot than my father, and did better at small game hunting by far.
Now that is well said Candice.
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
Yeah, their called "masculine activities" because they are typically done by a male rather than a female (though that obviously doesn't mean only men can do it) so stop getting offended so easily, GEEZ
..and yet by your very tone YOU are offended yourself at the women’s responses. Stop getting offended so easily. GEEZ.
Tanish D SIlva, first learn the difference between their/they're/there and then explain your attitude. Geez, I hate it when 2nd graders don't pay attention to class and start commenting things on the internet trying to sound like a "big kid".