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sungam
Feb 16, 2011, 11:39 AM
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airscape wrote: stoneraven wrote: As a "retired" setter I find myself wondering why some are now naming climbs in gyms..Silliness..or worse...while recently at a gym in VA one climb was named Slave Trade...does anyone else find this offensive?First time I've seen this thread. I will name my next route "You are a fuck up." That is all.
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airscape
Feb 16, 2011, 12:47 PM
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sungam wrote: airscape wrote: stoneraven wrote: As a "retired" setter I find myself wondering why some are now naming climbs in gyms..Silliness..or worse...while recently at a gym in VA one climb was named Slave Trade...does anyone else find this offensive?First time I've seen this thread. I will name my next route "You are a fuck up." That is all. I went through a phase of wanting to name all my routes with an aim to get people's panties in a twist ("Stoya" [don't google it at work] was one of my favourite names. The thought of people talking about it without knowing the source of the name - hah!) . Luckily I did a whole zero new routes in that time and went back to naming things after dinosaurs. e.g. Flakeasaurus Rex and Tyranasaurus Flame (If you every walk a hundred or so yards above the mushroom boulder at big bend you will see this guy).
It's a prawn star.
Hmmmm.
She's gotz a signature fleshlight...
Hmmmm
An fleshlight....
hmmmm
Maybe that would have been a better buy than a grigri2...
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MasterOfKungFu
Feb 23, 2011, 6:21 AM
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The gym I go to only has 1 or 2 routes with names.
The ones that are up now are "Go to town Charlie Brown" and "Kickin' it Old School".
The first one is quite appropriate since it is one of the most difficult climbs in the gym.
But yea, I wouldn't want too many dumb names all around the gym.
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tylert222
Mar 5, 2011, 3:04 PM
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I thinks its great that they name climbs. Its easy to say have you done the zebra, then say have you tried the route on the back wall under the overhang to the right.
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phang_nga
Mar 6, 2011, 2:25 AM
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karmiclimber wrote: Just like when I go to the grocery store and the aisle says "Oriental Food". Seriously? Its ASIAN. From ASIA. Not "the Orient." I dunno...some things, you just don't go there, imo.
The historic meaning of the name Oriental is anywhere to the east of Europe. I don't think it has any negative connotations. True, it would be more accurate if the food came from Southeast Asia, for example, to call it Asian food.
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blueeyedclimber
Mar 6, 2011, 4:24 PM
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stoneraven wrote: As a "retired" setter I find myself wondering why some are now naming climbs in gyms..Silliness..or worse...while recently at a gym in VA one climb was named Slave Trade...does anyone else find this offensive?
I consider myself an artist when setting routes. Naming a climb is part of the art. I find it fun.
Josh
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itstoearly
Mar 14, 2011, 3:20 PM
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karmiclimber wrote: jbrown2 wrote: Anal Intruder Number Ten, Daily Dick Dose, Pumped Full of Semen, Red Neck Rail, Gaged and Bound, Hand Job Wall, The Vulgarians, Pulpit Pooper, Slap That Bitch. Names from across the country. Climbs, groups, places. Climbing has, in its history a will to test bounds. A yearning to push limits. As climbers we push ourselves not only physically but we challenge ourselves to question the world and the moral practices within society. Naming climbs that push individual boundaries is not meant to be purely offensive. It is meant to solicit reactions and induce thought. Rude, offensive, improper. Each of us sees the world as we believe it is. Perhaps the name of a climb brings up your own personal prejudices and makes us think, learn and move on to a more open way of being. Yeah, I climbed a route at Smith called "BBQ the Pope"...if you can't tell the difference between a name that attacks a man/position revered by people the WORLD over and a group of people oppressed by a bunch of douchebag users in the south, there is something wrong with you. They were treated as subhuman. Children were sold separately from their mothers and abused. Don't get me wrong...yes slaves have been around since God knows when. But the slave trade happened in America just a little over a hundred years ago, with segregation and racism plaguing our nation until the 70's and of course, racism still haunting us to this day. Shameful.
Don't forget that African slaves were originally sold to Whites by other Africans. It's not like whites enslaved Africans so much as they bought Africans who were already enslaved.
Not that it excuses anyone involved in the slave trade.
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