I'll go a step further and say that picture looks like a glamour shot. It's not an action shot. She's not getting ready to run and throw something. It's a pose. Wearing a very revealing outfit. The owner of the photo (whether it's the photog or if she retained ownership) has every right to tell people they can't put it up on some fan site, but it's bullshit for anyone to claim that either the photographer or her or anybody else involved in taking that picture didn't know damn well it was supposed to be sexy and fully intended it to be so.

Wow.

Inside of two full pages we're already blaming Bitch_PhD for drawing more attention to Stokke (way to miss the point) and completely re-classifying the point of the article in the first place.

I don't care if I start sounding like a broken record, but take a step back, folks:

Whether or not she's hot is beside the point. The point, as is often the case in Bitch_PhD's missives, is that there is a dug-in anti-feminism in our society, and it's not okay because it's worse elsewhere. It's not okay because some of us are "just being men."

Here's the real secret: You can be the most lustful, foul-mouthed, filthy-minded individual and still maintain respect for other people as human beings, PERIOD.

I do it every day.

hi, i'm the human athletic ideal that has been widely adored since the dawn of civilization. maybe you've heard of me?

Seriously. Athletes are fuckin sexy. Male and female. What ? nobody has ever commented about it ? Why exactly are these guys being villianized ?
I'm guessing they are a whole lot more crude than I'd approve of but somehow this doesn't equate to me as some capital crime oppressing women.
She is a champion athlete. No half-assed, stupid comment by any nitwits or others are going to take that away from her and people that matter are always going to respect her for her abilities not because she looked cute in a half top.

Maybe someone would like to freak out about Delinda's web site Hottest male athletes , and her posting of un-endorsed pictures sexualizing and using lust-centric pratices to learn about sports. Disgusting, psssh

Poor girl, successful and famous at just 18. My heart goes out to her.

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When you try to get attention, you don't get to pick who gives it to you.

Sports = showbiz.

Absolutely.

A person owns the rights to their own likeness. If she hasn't been paid for the use of her photos on merchandise, she has a right to be.

I know, the heady world of amateur pole-vaulting is huge!

To be honest, I'm tired of Sergei Bubka always being on the cover of People Magazine.

I'm sympathetic, although frankly I wonder if what she's doing isn't counterproductive. Since there were fan sites popping up and magazine offers and photographers and whatnot, maybe it makes little difference, but as pointed out, a lot of people (such as me) are hearing about this now who may not have otherwise. Since there isn't anything technically illegal about it, I can't imagine that there aren't people unscrupulous enough to run with it.

Who knows. I'm not sure there's absolutely anything you can do once that train gets rolling.

God damn, I just said I found her attractive, and ya'll wanna jump down my throat. I wasn't makin' any lude comments. I wasn't making any sexual innuendos. I just said she's hot. Then I posted a picture of a dude wearing a shirt with a slogan referring towards her outstanding athleticism. God, I must be some kind of perverted monster! Give me a break.

Furthermore, if she was really that concerned about this girl, she would have omitted her full name from the article.

Guess what? I did.

No point, really, since the Washington Post story you linked to at least had her full name. I would have backed you if you hadn't.

Not that I'm saying that that's worth much, but I would have.

I don't know you, but I'm going to err on the side of presuming basic intelligence and say that you can't possibly be oblivious enough not to realize that reading an article about a freaked-out high school girl who's suddenly found herself plastered all over the internet with lewd sexual comments attached to her photos and people obsessing over her hotness and people fucking filming her talking to her coach and posting the film on YouTube and people approaching her in public because they've seen her pictures all over the internet, and then responding with a statement like, "Well, I mean, she is hot," is rather insensitive and asshole-ish and kind of the whole problem with the hoopla surrounding this girl in the first place.

She's eighteen, for fuck's sake. The world is a less safe place for young women than it is for men, particularly when it comes to sex. I don't see how anyone can miss the fact that, unintentionally or not, responses just like yours exponentially multiplied all over cyberspace have her feeling scared and threatened, and legitimately so.

The quote you used uses her first name at one point, and Miss Stokke at another. It's not hard to put two and two together.

While it's probably true that this article made a lot of people who hadn't yet heard of Miss Stokke see the pictures posted, if bitchpd hadn't posted the links you would have asked for her proof/references.

I think it would be extremely embarrasing to have photo's and dodgy comments of you posted all over the place. I think also, that I have highschool photo's of my friends and I posing which we trusted would not end up anywhere except in our own photo albums, and that I would not have been at all fussed if I'd found them online.

On the other hand, there's no clear way to stop this without impinging on free speech. It would be nice if we could make it illegal to post unsolicited photos, but that would also make it illegal to post pictures of war crimes, environmental destruction, etc in progress.

Hopefully Miss Stoke can use the publicity to assist her career. We all know how hard it is for female athletes to get decent sponsership.