You seem awfully certain that a) he was OK with the kiss, and b) that she was NOT OK with the ass grab. That's all, folks.

My point is, everyone seems to assume that he, by virtue of winning a race and/or stepping onto a podium, has given his permission to be shown sexual attention. Maybe he's married. Maybe he's uncomfortable. He certainly looks ambivalent in the picture, standing stiffly at attention. Yet, those same people assume…

Oh, yeah? Well, you're about 1/10,000th as smart as you think you are. So, there; you can't argue with that kind of math.

The irony of you, a vulgarian, ad hominem attacker, suggesting I grow up is palpable.

How is it "clear" she has his permission?

I, too, am mortified by the unwanted sexual contact displayed in the photo. Just look at that, poor, scantily clad person receiving evidently undesired sexual contact. After all, just because it is someone's job to be on the podium after a race, wearing tight clothing, does not mean that one wants to be treated like…

Fill the room with beach balls. The displacement is B.

Concur. It's as if the people here cannot fathom (or, more likely, admit) that an armed potential victim could ever defend herself with a gun, or that having the legal potential to own and carry one might be, in itself, a deterrent. In the cases where a gun isn't helpful for whatever reason (no time to deploy,…

What if I find @Umbrellahead, and her child-like "logic" adorable, like a little, baby lamb? Squee!

Squee! It's so cute to imply you're a big soccer fan and admire that photo of all that athletic soccer action, but that men looking at women in swimsuits is objectification. Squee! Your point is not both hypocritical and contradictory, because you say that objectification for "hundreds of years" is wrong, but…

Your daughter would only have a problem getting her can kicked by an Olympian if she had a lifetime of being conditioned to the premise that winning equals worthiness. If you have taught her that losing equals being a loser, she will, no doubt be very upset when she loses, much as you obviously are.

I agree on the rarity. Campuses, and especially ones for little kids, are both safe and unsafe because they are a closed environment full of (mostly) women and children, two demographics that don't, statistically, generate a lot of violence. This makes them, most of the time, happy places with few worries of…

Well, if the teacher is prone to terrified panic and is incapable of not shooting bystanders, then he/she probably won't be one of the ones who volunteers to CCW.

You have surprisingly great faith in police officer training, and surprisingly poor faith in your fellow teachers' training.

So, rather than data, you cite, what, your feelings? "It's stupid because I think it is." I remember when my 17-year-old daughter said stuff like that. About fourteen years ago. It was adorable.

"There have been mass shootings at many of the locations you mention [Churches (in most states), Restaurants, Parks, Pools, Downtown areas on weekends and shopping holidays, Truck stops]"

And teachers regularly statutorily rape their students. I don't think the criminal excursions of either group offer much data toward the suitability of voluntary CCW in schools.

"There have been mass shootings at many of the locations you mention."

"Teachers DO have a unique stress proposition"

Your solution appears to be dying without attempting to fight back. Your fantasy of a noble, unarmed death is equally incomprehensible to me as my armed response is to you.