MyKayla Skinner Olympic participation

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Yeah, she seemed nothing but grateful and excited tonight lmao. Like who wouldn’t love to be on the main team and know you’re a near-sure bet for Olympic gold? But she didn’t seem upset at all. People have been projecting onto Skinner a lot. NotMyKayla but like whatever I’m happy for her!! She stands a good shot at a medal. She basically just needs to get out of prelims
 
Thanks for confirming it. I was certain that I had either read or seen something about that word being offensive a long time ago.
 
Same. I always thought it was jip/jipped and recently got called out on this by an American. I looked up the etyomology and it there were two origin stories; one racist, one not. I can’t find the non-racist one right now but I did find another interesting (and dodgy) origin…

 
I’m familiar with gyp/jip for pain, though it’s old fashioned, always thought it was more of a southern thing and I wasn’t sure how to spell it before today. Hadn’t actually heard ‘jipped’ though, I wondered whether she said jibbed originally but it’s definitely a p isnt it? Google says ‘jibbed’ is Australian which was news to me.

I can believe she didn’t know the etymology
of gypped/jipped, since I’ve just learned something similar myself today. But the tweets… she’s really not got one iota of sense has she? Engage brain!
 
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Where? I just went through 16 hours back of her likes and saw exactly one that said she was robbed. How is that all the tweets?

Every tweet that she liked just says congratulations, you deserve it, proud of you, never give up etc. etc.

ETA: The one single tweet she liked about it was this


She retweeted zero tweets about her being on the main team, plus one, or robbed.

The only thing she herself has tweeted since last night is this:

 
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