Mountain Life COAST MOUNTAINS - Winter/Spring 2018 _The LADIES FIRST Issue

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from our Guest Editor, Taylor Godber:

Thanks, Feet and thank you, Mountain Life for bravely unearthing a camouflaged
topic – gender inequality. It almost seems like a foreign notion at first. We are
a strong community: sexism and gender inequity couldn't reside here in our
bubble of adventure heaven.
But it is here. And the systemic oppression of women that might be more visible
in other parts of the world still hasn’t yet packed its bags and left us to our
paradise. It’s interesting that for so long our culture just accepted that: yes,
women’s prize money is different. Yes, it’s a challenge to climb the ranks in
women’s action sports, and yes, men get paid more. Well, we’re calling bullshit.
It’s a gosh-darn revolution, bitches! Every generation, the line of what is deemed
acceptable shifts. And these days, the tectonic plates of how the world sees
women are starting to collide, and shake things up. Women are no longer just
asking what it really means to be a woman, we’re also tagging in for the fight.
As ‘mountain, forest and ocean lifers,’ we hold a significant power to make
more than just a ripple in the pond. This lifestyle of pushing boundaries and
connecting to nature breeds movers, shakers, and modern-day warriors with
enough fierce dedication and determination to follow through on whatever
they choose. We can set a momentous impact on those around us, especially the
generations to come.
So here it is, a homage to some of the radical women that make wonderful role
models for our boys, girls, and ourselves. This issue is also a stage to extend
the message out to the world that there should never, ever be a limit set on
anyone’s abilities based on sex, race, or anything else. The sky isn’t the limit any
more. Send it!
—Taylor Godber