Hanna Rosin is so mad that female Olympians pose in their underwear

Call me when the female Olympians start hitting on high school students.

 

"Where were the Olympians like that when I was in high school?"

 

Oh yeah. I can. But faced with such photos (the official ones, according to The Mail) I can easily see someone flipping out.

It's like, do the pictures of the Russian men's hockey team show them in nothing but G-strings, slicked down with as much Crisco as they could find on the streets of Moscow?

 

They might at least feel a twinge over photos like this one.

 

I bet she doesn't have a problem with it.

Her issue seems to be when the bodies are sexualized.

 

You're kidding, right?

 

And you believe this is an opinion that Hanna Rosin would hold?

 

No, not at all.

Her issue seems to be with the lingerie and the come-hither faces. I think it would be tough for her to make this same argument about the ESPN body issue, which includes an equal helping of male athletes.

 

If you've got it, flaunt it.
If you don't, be realistic.

 

Words to live by, indeed.

 

In current feminist thinking it seems like it's just the opposite.

 

If it were her opinion -- I have no idea if it is -- what difference would it make? So it'd be one less woman showing her goods. So? What's the loss there? How has America, as a culture, profited by proliferation of women in skimpy clothes?

And why is modesty automatically tied to shame and hiding? Are you citing "Dick Whitman in 2014" for the analysis there?

Doesn't your argument that you somehow know the moral dew point of women in their underwear? How you'd acquire that knowledge?