Now who’s being sarcastic? 
Also, i didn’t say she wasn’t allowed to do it. It just seems like a poor decision. Maybe her travels around the world haven’t been so enlightening.
…you haven’t mastered the art of sarcasm. You’ve only mastered the art of being a complete prick.
There is someone very unenlightened here, and it ain’t Aly.
Whoa now… that’s a little uncalled-for. Please explain/quote my prickishness.
If we ever have a Wide World of Sports-type intro for the SDMB, I nominate this OP for the “agony of defeat” sequence.
I’ll do it:
Obviously there’s no way to be certain, but this OP has “drinking” written all over it. If I’m wrong, I’m wrong.
Me.
Yeah, your opinion of her decision is stupid. It’s rooted in patronizing and outdated ideas about women, and in unproductive ideas about the connection between expression of sexuality and sexual assault, but beyond that, it’s deeply stupid.
On behalf of all women, I’d just like to thank men like you who protect us womenfolk from ourselves. Sometimes we forget that we’re incapable of making these choices for ourselves, and need somebody to mansplain these things to us.
Alright, I missed this one. And you’ve gone too far. I’m not engaging in name calling. I was trying to have a discussion, but this has gone too far.
I’m glad you’re so sure about who I am (from a statement on an anonymous message board) that you can make such judgement calls. May you sleep well tonight.
Only fit young women should be naked. Aly Raisman fits the bill perfectly. Leave her alone.
I would posit that anyone who thinks a woman who does this is cheapening herself is cheapening the view of women. Sexuality is not in itself a bad thing.
OP, it’s wrong to shame women for wearing revealing clothes. That’s her choice, and wearing revealing clothing doesn’t hurt you or anyone. It doesn’t matter if she’s been abused or not, it’s always her choice, and it’s always okay no matter what choice she makes.
Am I missing something? I just googled Aly Raisman and Sports Illustrated and found what was described as all of her SI photos. She was not nude in *any *of them.
I don’t, necessarily, agree, but thank you for this post. This is the kind of feedback one can use, with insight, to see the error within my opinion.
This one, too. Thank you. I’m not trying to shame her, I’m questioning how alone i am in seeing it this way. I hope I find food and water on this island.
I found them. They are tasteful and don’t reveal anything, but I’ll spoiler them, anyway.
You did call her a “bitch”, and you said she’s “doing womankind a disservice”, and that she’s “cheapening herself”, among other things. That’s shaming, whether you intended so or not. Shaming women – in any way making a woman feel bad – for the simple choice of being photographed in revealing clothing (or no clothing) is, simply put, always wrong. It’s always, literally always, perfectly okay for anyone to decide to be photographed nude or in revealing clothing, and it’s literally always wrong to try and shame or criticize them for doing so. It hurts no one. But shaming them, on the other hand, sends the message to girls and women that there’s something shameful about their bodies. That they must dress in a certain way and cover themselves because revealing skin is wrong or shameful.
Please don’t do that. You’re just piling on to this huge part of society and culture that deems women’s bodies, and girls bodies, shameful, and that women and girls who choose to dress a certain way are morally lesser than others.
Thanks for that perspective, iiandyiiii. I agree that it’s not right to shame, and in review, I can see that’s how I presented myself. I would like to retract that from the record, though it’s oh so too late for that.
I’ll humbly agree I could have handled/expressed myself better. Though you guys’ve easily convinced me that i was a bit of an ass, you haven’t convinced me that there’s no harm in what she’s done.
Which is why the burka had veil are the height of modern feminist attire.
…gone too far? You’ve posted in the fucking pit. What the fuck were you expecting?
If you want a discussion, then posting your sexist misogynistic outdated opinions in the pit was your first mistake.
I wasn’t sure “who you were” when you posted the OP. I am sure who you are once you posted your clarification. You are somebody who is gleefully shaming a sexual abuse survivor. You posted an OP with the title “I’d like a taste of that!”
You are a nasty horrible person.