But surf culture has long included sexist undertones with a tendency to over-sexualize female surfers and undermine their talent.
Both, however, have had damaging ways of undermining their talent.
In the past, Sevigny's had to apologise to directors after her honesty, and habit of undermining her talent, has veered promotional interviews off-message.
On several occasions, the media and the brands associated with the sport have been criticized for oversexualizing female surfers and undermining their talent.
Indeed, it's hard not to see his career as a classic case of talent undermined by addiction.
Little Big Town, some of the best harmonizers in the game, undermined their own talent by dressing themselves up in light-up suits in front of a glow-in-the-dark drumline.
A fast, flamboyant shotmaker in his prime, whose acute non-verbal intelligence instantly read the implications of any configuration of the balls, he constantly undermined his extraordinary talent with self-destructive excess.
And you marveled at how thoroughly history has banished memory of the Swedish composer Kurt Atterberg, whose political conniving during World War II undermined an enormous talent evident in his ingenious Piano Quintet in C, effusively played by Mr. Weiss and the Daedalus Quartet.
Hijacking Iñárritu's career-highlight moment by mocking his ethnicity undermines his raw talent.
Hollywood has always fancied it could undermine and destroy the great talents that came its way by giving them money.
