I couldn’t remember if I had posted Aly Raisman or not before.  I know I had seriously considered it before but I guess it didn’t happen.  She was at something for the CMAs the other day and I really liked her dress which got her back in my head.  The dress didn’t make it here because as much as I liked the dress I feel like it would be a missed opportunity to only put her in gowns that kind of make her look like anyone else on the red carpet.  Maybe that would be good too, a whole different point but I feel like there is a lot of value in pointing out that Aly Raisman’s body is not one that conforms to what we would consider typical feminine beauty standards but she is still very attractive.  There is a lot to unpack here and I am probably ill suited to do so but I feel like I have to share some thoughts since I brought it up.  One of the reasons I enjoy ESPN’s body issue each year is not because naked athletes are fun to look at, though often they are, it’s because it really does emphasize how amazing the human body can be.  Anyone appearing in the issue is in just amazing shape and is at the top of what they do.  They have honed their body into the perfect machine for exceptional athletic feats.  Those feats are often different and it means that their bodies are often very different.  They take amazingly different shapes and sizes because they have been honed towards a certain activity.  It is beautiful and fascinating and destroys the concept of one size fits all.  I encourage you to look at Prince Fielder’s body issue pictures at some point and realize that his body is not our conception of what someone in shape is supposed to look like but the truth is he is in better shape than everyone reading this.  Probably.  I guess Charlotte Caslick might have been an avid reader of this blog since I posted her.  Feel free to say high if that’s true.  Anyway, my point is Aly Raisman is not what we think of either as what a woman looks like if she is at the gym all the time but I defy you to look at her and find a single flaw in her physical structure.  She is undeniably physical perfection in the condition of her body.  It’s a little staggering to look at her.  In general I like this.  And I happen to find it beautiful to regard and think she is pretty as a result.  I guess my second point is you don’t have to.  I appreciate that tumblr and the internet tries to be inclusive in what is beautiful and so on but they also take it too far.  Look, if you find someone unattractive that’s actually ok.  If you feel the need to loudly voice it without being asked, then you’re a dick.  There’s an important distinction here.  I don’t know that in every situation people need to keep quiet for politeness but you should probably ask yourself what the benefit of rude honesty is anytime you are prepared for it.  In the case of a stranger’s body on the internet it really isn’t that important that you let everyone know you aren’t down.  There is a caveat though, the rest of you need to stop making people feel guilty for not being attracted to someone.  It doesn’t make them a bad person.  We really aren’t in control of our sexual attraction, we tend to like what we like, even people like me who overthink every little bit of everything to the point that they have blogs about what they are attracted to.  And you can argue what factors have contributed to that person’s conception of beauty but it doesn’t change how they feel.  We can’t control how we feel, just how we act on it.  And look, I would love to claim that people have to be attracted to someone just because say they are funny and smart.  This would benefit me greatly as I am hilarious, brilliant, and humble.  But I am also old and out of shape and I look at pictures of me as a teenager and wonder what the hell happened.  Well, age did.  But in the end I can be as clever as I like, big heads and soft bodies make for lousy lovers to steal a line.  My point is people should perhaps examine things from a broader perspective because you should be attracted to someone because they are a good person/nice/kind/smart is a weapon that has been wielded unevenly for ages.  If you’re a girl and reading this you probably have felt pressure many times in your life, even if it just came form inside, to find a guy attractive because he was so decent.  Just because we change the standards of what we are applying that to it’s the same unfair formula.  You can’t force attraction and no one should feel bad if they aren’t attracted to someone.  It feels like an important note because I see tumblr take it too far sometimes.  So what I am saying, because sometimes my posts get hate, is that this post is here because I am attracted to Aly Raisman.  This doesn’t make me a good person or a bad person.  I just am.  And you are welcome to be as well and that is fine.  You are welcome to not be and that is fine.  But I am.  Today I want to fuck Aly Raisman.