It doesn’t sit right with me that she blames past trauma for her comments. Many other gymnasts experienced abuse but are still kind and respectful to others. It just seems like she was trying to bring others down in order to make herself feel better.
I don't think everybody copes with trauma the same way, maybe she didn't identify the abuse before and just thought it was the correct way to be successful. She knows she made a mistake like all of us do, so as long as she learns we should stop the bullying
@@Natalia-il8ck I know that people cope with trauma differently, but it’s not an excuse to bring others down. And I’m not bullying her, just stating that what she said was not right. Hopefully she learns but this isn’t the first time she has acted this way.
@@Natalia-il8ck My concern here is that she is NOT learning. She’s made hateful, racist, entitled comments repeatedly for years. It doesn’t appear she feels she’s ever made any mistake, at any time, and no one around her is looking out for her. (Which is, BTW, another common reality in abuse situations.)
@@dancingdani25uta so not ur place to judge her when u don't know a second in her life is like. R we doomed and defined by a comment we all have made and can't tell me u haven't said something either bad or extremely seriously bad maybe and were able to delete as fast possible and no one basically ever knew it was there.
@@brianpatterson1827 it’s not my place to judge her but it’s her place to judge others? I’m allowed to have an opinion about her comments just as she was allowed to make the comments in the first place.
What I hate is how clearly not genuine her apologies are, she's just trying to get the anger shifted off of her. She very clearly said what she said, she doesn't get to twist it into THE REST OF US misunderstanding her
Completely agree. And also searched for every possible external source of blame rather than saying something mildly genuine like "so sorry, I'm rooting for you guys, I'm so proud of each of you now having won which clearly takes so much hard work" (short and sweet statement). Instead we get "it was all MARTA's fault!!! yep I'm actually a victim of negativity guys, you wouldn't get it .." [as she apologises to her own ... victims of negativity]. Like come on where is the reality check around her
She always gave mean girl vibes, always thought she was better than what she was. Making those comments as someone who even in their full health could never make a team, is crazy
She wasn’t taking about the current team? Uhhh she said everyone but Simone so obviously that includes athletes of today. Any real apology would’ve acknowledged that. Instead she responds like we have amnesia. “I’m sorry you misinterpreted me” is always going to backfire.
She’s gaslighting and was jealous. She wasn’t even good when she competed. She got caught and people are calling her out thank god! It’s so frustrating because she’s not being genuine. She’s making it out like it’s OUR fault but she literally did this to herself 😭
Nothing misinterpreted ...she communicates clearly, gets caught, apologizes. The message is quite frequently critical of others. This wash, rinse, repeat has been a formula since her teen years. This is a mark of a person lacking in wisdom and self-awareness. But instead of shaming MyKayla for being herself, we might be doing the world a great service by simply not paying attention to what she has to say anymore, and giving our attention to the athletes who earned their way to Paris, and matters of far greater relevance and importance.
@@rachelfan121 She hasn't changed her behavior in all this time despite getting in hot water numerous times in NCAA and Elite. Our best approach is to ignore her. Everytime she gets attention for this kind of behavior it just fuels her. She revels in the attention.
Check out several of her other posts in recent yrs. If this was a first-time occurrence I doubt it would get the same level of concern. Ms Skinner Harmer needs help outside of social media. If not for herself, for her child.
If Simone hadn’t gotten the twisties, Skinner wouldn’t have that silver medal. She was always a replacement and only in 2014 did she ever compete with the team. She’s still bitter. But she needs to get over it. And the fact she tried to put her negative comments off on dealing with the abuse of the Márta era is just bull. She needs to just go sit down and shut up.
@@darkmatter5940 exactly. And she acts like she was always going to get it. Looking back, she’s always made problematic comments. She liked a post calling Gabby Douglass a monkey when Gabby made the 2016 Rio team. Skinner never understood the numbers. Gabby and Maddie were needed on bars. Every other field was covered twice over. Skinner fit nowhere. Same for Tokyo, Grace and Jordan and better execution than she did. She should have remembered the floor final at 2014 worlds when her difficulty was higher than Aliya Mustafina’s but Mustafina snacked that bronze medal from her with execution. Humbleness is a virtue that Skinner doesn’t have.
Yeah, right, wasn't your intent? You should think before you open your big mouth. So now you do the same thing that you accuse Marta of doing? You're better than Marta.
‼TLDR: By "apology" here we mean: ‼ "Hi there, yes as a grown adult and RETIRED gymnastic I would like to officially ... blame all of my (*hurtful and unnecessary words that served literally no purpose at all*) words on my coach here, I think she is still talking through me like a puppet in everyday life outside of the sprung floor reality that ended a long time ago! It was her fault!"
I don’t think the media nor public has been kind to MyKayla since this whole mess started, but really she should just stay quiet. It seems like every time she talks she digs a deeper hole. I’m not defending her initial video…that very poorly thought out and inappropriate in many ways…but now it seems like she’s trying to backtrack and it’s creating a bigger mess. There was no reason to drag Marta Karolyi in all of this too…it looks like her scapegoating Marta to get the heat off of her. Sometimes it’s best to just weather the storm. I do wish her the best though…the backlash must be traumatizing.
She earned it though, especially her body shaming suni. Like just no. She needs to not blame others and take responsibility and then she wouldn’t have the backlash
@@Jasperollie84yes. However I think the reason she over does it, is because her family has been receiving death threats. That’s way too much for a stupid video.
Wasn’t she only an alternate both times and stepped in for Simone after she was unable to during the last Olympics? If she was referencing gymnasts in general and not this Olympic batch then why did she specifically say everyone except Simone Biles? And on top of it, why did you then block Simone Biles? She’s made a mess.
I mean you no disrespect nor do I agree with the comments she made. I just don’t understand your comment. What does having a baby have to do with anything? Shawn Johnson, who I think is amazing, has a family and still speaks on gymnastics . Aliya Mustafina had a baby then went back to competition and made the national team. She still looks back and speaks on her sport. Over half the sports commentators are past athletes who now have families. I want to make it clear I don’t agree with what she said but having a “whole baby” doesn’t take your right to an opinion, or right to look back away. I don’t have to agree with her but having a baby is irrelevant to looking back or speaking on things.
Why don’t people stick with their convictions anymore? As soon as a group of weaklings have their feelings hurt, they’ve got to be coddled? Pathetic world.
