i think you find it on the left/right depending on who is having the emotional/mental difficulty...there's plenty of denialism on the left about the mental health of the President, for example.I read the same- she said "I didn't know where I was" coming off one of the apparatus and rather than risk a poor score and/or some kind of mental (or physical) break, she pulled out.
It feels like more and more athletes and other public figures are realizing no one gives a fuck about their health (how long did the US gymnastics team cover up a pedophile doctor?), so they need to be the ones to give a fuck. Combined with the rampant Dunning-Kruger epidemic in America, I can totally understand the outrage. I went on Fox News to see what the narrative would be, and the comments were telling. You get a lot of Uncle Ricos talking about how they understand pressure because they played Jr Varsity Ping Pong or something:
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I didn't realize there was so much denialism about mental health on the right.
The one that gets me is the "she took a spot from someone else"/"git er done"...OK, but what was the coaching staff doing to make sure that Simone and the other athletes are in peak mental/emotional state? This isn't something where you wake up in the middle of a competition of this magnitude and say "meh, fuck it"...especially if you're competitive enough to make the Olympic team.