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- Mar 4, 2018
The person who wrote that is just parroting what Dave Lease said in his TSL video about Gracie's performance at Regionals.
Shameless Lease has been pushing that sexist narrative about Gracie for some time--that she's too naive/fragile/ignorant to recognize when someone is "using" her for their own nefarious purposes.
And Lease continues to push it despite the fact that Gracie is a 24 year old experienced veteran figure skater who has made a point of stating in recent interviews that she is not emotionally fragile and that she has carefully considered her coaching situation.
I came here to basically say this. Honestly I'm insulted by it. I've been severely suicidal before having made 4 attempts one of which put me in a coma for several days. If you'd said to me that even 2 years after that I wasn't capable of going back to a scaled version of my previous job I would have punched you in the face. Depression doesn't last forever. You have struggles sure but you don't get better by sitting around doing nothing. Even 6 months after my bottom I was back working full time at a job which without disclosing my entire lifestory was a heck of a lot more stressful than being a skater at the domestic level.
I'm almost 100% sure the social media posts (which btw show only 15-60 seconds of Gracie's entire week) and the banners and skating show at the rink are just a small something to offset the fact that she probably gets free ice time and I would be really surprised if her coaching team is being paid at all.
I personally think Gracie is getting more out of the deal than she is giving in promotional consideration. She seems to have privacy and a team she enjoys working with. I really doubt there is a major coach who "doesn't need her" that would want to work with her right now.
People need to wise up to the fact that she's a 24 year old lady. She can make her own decisions. She has a personality of her own. She doesn't like run throughs and doesn't strike me as someone who can be made to do something she doesn't want to do. She WAS really out of shape/physical conditioning for a long time. People forget that. It's not like being injured and coming back.