Tag: Aly Raisman

Sometimes when I post it can be hard to do someone justice. The thoughts are there but the words won’t translate them and I feel like perhaps I have done a disservice. I am posting Aly Raisman again cause I was thinking about her again. In part I almost felt cheated we didn’t get to sneak in more photoshoot pictures last time, as nice as it was to do the red carpet, but mainly I was thinking about the strange nature of fame and how we can confuse it with importance if we aren’t careful. Aly Raisman is a hero. I am sure someone on the internet will take issue with that sort of statement but that someone is probably either ill informed and has no idea why I would say that or just a real piece of shit. Either way I don’t have much time for them, I’m too tired and cranky to waste my time. She is a hero. Even if she hadn’t stood up to her abuser and made it her mission to try and make the world a better place as a result she is well worth our respect just because she seems to be a combination of dedicated, hard working, and a deeply good person. I am on record saying an Olympic Gymnast is someone who as a little girl worked harder than most of us do as adults. That alone is the sort of thing we should look up to. On top of that she is gracious in victory and defeat. And yes, she is a hero. So it feels like one of the strange quirks of the world that when she is at an event for like, MTV or something, she is one of the least famous people there. And that can be confused for importance but it shouldn’t be. I should have better thoughts on this but sometimes they don’t come. I guess what I am posting Aly Raisman because she is important. Like I said the other day for Jessie Diggins, I am proud she represents me as American. Today I want to fuck Aly Raisman.

I am watching the Olympics and hey, this post is kind of related. I have been thinking about Aly Raisman since her Sports Illustrated shoot came out. I liked it. I think she is in general brave and strong and of course there was negativity about it because a woman on the internet did a thing and that is bound to piss a lot of men off. They seem like dicks to me. The shoot of course isn’t what makes her brave, sometimes people are brave to just get up and face the day. She and a lot of other women are brave for just that reason alone. I don’t really want to get into abuse here, I have a lot to say about it and always have but this is not the blog for it, so I will just say if you have suffered you have my sympathy. It is really hard, it is very isolating, and it will always be with you. But I guess that’s part of the bravery, not just continuing on but speaking out. It helps people feel at least not so alone. Beyond all the pragmatic reasons for it it gives other people courage and resolve. So I get angry when I see sad, shitty men on the internet act like sad, shitty men because a girl wore a bathing suit but then I remind myself they don’t matter, not even a little. They are trolls and trolls live for attention so my attention will instead by on Aly Raisman, who is basically a real life superhero. And by that I am no longer talking about coming forward, I am talking about there being pictures to her clinging to a wall in last year’s SI because she is in peak physical condition so is probably the closest to Spider-man we’re ever going to get. Aly Raisman can climb walls. That’s awesome. It’s also really hot. She’s beautiful and impressive and today I want to fuck Aly Raisman.

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.