"We are sick and tired of being sick and tired about all this WOKE crap being pushed by a small minority (a very loud constant, media backed, bunch of flys buzzing around your head loud minority) and all they bring with it. The government can’t find its way out of a paper bag."
Thank you @The_MS for clarifying why this whole thread has been such BS and why I'm not going to mourn people like you leaving the sport if that's what you decide. Throughout this whole issue you've wanted, no NEEDED, to make this about something that it's not. You want to make some sort of statement against politics, wokeness, little-d democracy, or as @Jody_Seal has ranted about endlessly, the COMMUNIST ELITE NOBODY LIKED MY IDEAS SO THEY MUST BE CORRUPT ARGH!!!!. Admit it, you are old (I'm not that far behind but age is more of an attitude), you don't want to change and the world is moving on and it just kills you so you want to sh!t on everything on your way out the door and make everyone as miserable as you are. Well, from the looks of this thread, you've succeeded. Congrats. I guess.
If you want to talk about the big issues of the day, go back to facebook, Newsmax, Fox or whatever crap that tells you want you want to hear about yourself. The rest of us have to live in the real world.
These new rules are, and always have been, about a sports organization trying to adapt to modern times, both because there is a moral imperative to do so (protecting kids) and because of financial realities (insurance, USOC, etc.).
Just shut up and ski, right?