I think the thing that interests me most about athletes is the hard work.  I mean, I am willing to believe most people I post here work very hard at their craft.  Maybe some more than others but there is no way to know.  I absolutely know athletes are working hard at their craft because if they weren’t they wouldn’t be able to do it.  I bring this up because from some of what I see on the internet McKayla Maroney is seen as… perhaps frivolous would be the best word.  We’ll ignore the fact that she became a meme because of her ability to look unimpressed but I have seen comments and stuff because… well, the middle pictures.  Because, you know, she’s a teenager, her world has a lot of selfies and lot of social media and a lot of sharing of both silly and mundane stuff.  And I don’t know her at all, she might be a horrible person, she might be a sweetheart, I just find it funny when old people (me, people I know, etc) take the selfie thing or the general idea of self promotion that has become part and parcel with youth in the era of the internet as some sort of flaw.  Especially when it is a flaw that seems to translate to “Those damn kids don’t want to have to work for a god damned thing”.  Which is a strange leap to make but i have seen it made.  Which again makes no sense because let’s be honest for a second, she is an Olympic athlete.  That makes her better at what she does than almost anyone in the world.  She won a medal, that makes her better at what she does than even the select group of people around her who are better than everyone else in the world.  Some of that is natural talent.  A lot of that is being 10 years old and working harder than most adults.  And that is what impresses me about athletes, whatever personality traits they have or what we want to put on them these are at the least very dedicated, hard working people who frankly are impressive because of what they have accomplished.  Also she is really pretty and I find her adorable often.  So for me it’s all positives and that’s why today I want to fuck McKayla Maroney.