Jennifer Sey
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Just high school track record.
That's how big the gap is, which isn't to say that women suck.
They don't.
Women are amazing at sports in their own right, but they aren't as fast and strong or as tall, their wingspan, all the things.
They're not.
So we believe women should have their own sports and spaces, and that's what we're standing up for.
And, you know, I started the brand because as I looked around at all the other athletic brands out there, they all –
make a whole lot of money pretending to champion female athletes.
And they really treat them with astonishing disregard.
Really?
Well, Nike in particular, the big one, there have been very public examples, like public like on the cover of The New York Times, sexual harassment of female executives, firing of pregnant athletes who are, you know, athlete endorsers.
They fire them when they get pregnant.
And there was another case, a young woman by the name of Mary Kane, who was in their running training program, who was abused by the coach to the point of wanting to kill herself.
Jeez.
These are all Nike examples within between 2018 and 2019.
Wow.
So they don't really champion female athletes.
I was a gymnast.
I was on the national team for about eight years, and I dealt with a lot of physical and emotional abuse.
I wrote a book about it that came out in 2008.