it’s also “unbiblical” in the strictest sense of the word that these sorts of people use.

It cannot be understated how prevalent and powerful purity culture messaging was and is for *millions* of people in the Christian world. It’s not just the fundies. Harris’s I Kissed Dating Goodbye sold millions, but was also recommended by youth pastors and parents and passed around as a new Bible.

Evangelical “purity” culture just amplifies the bigger cultural message that refusing sex is a failure in a marriage and that solving it just requires having sex more. Anytime my partner or I have struggled with sex it is due to something completely unrelated to our desire for physical intimacy and relates to much…

my boyfriend purposefully trolls my phone to see what the algorithm will send me

This!  All of this!!

That’s because you’re not so deep into evangelical Christian culture that you can actually think for yourself.  They teach this shit and since the women don’t know any better, this happens.  

I’m going back and forth between being furious and feeling sick to my stomach.

These women are treated like frigid cum dumpsters. It’s infuriating.

She already has withdrawn from the individual all-around competition coming up.

Good point. Athletes in baseball, golf, and probably other sports often describe coming down with a case of “the yips.” Where they suddenly are unable to perform basic actions. Common examples are pitchers and second basemen being unable to throw to first base, and catchers being unable to throw the ball back to the…

I hear you, but Simone’s case isn’t one of “mental health”. She’s experiencing a physiological condition where her brain doesn’t instantly and intuitively know her orientation in the air while moving (the “twisties”) such that she’s forced to actually think her way through her work and be consciously analytical all…

Here’s the thing, though: Simone doesn’t have a “mental” issue to deal with, here. She got a case of the twisties (a real physiological condition) and she knows that if she tried to compete, tried to focus on what she was doing, and had all the training space she could get (like a foam pit), she still would not have…

Seriously...even if someone truly feels that way, it wholly ignores the fact that much of the reason the gold was ours to lose was: Simone Biles. How quickly some people have turned on her in hard times, forgetting all the work she did and the glory she already won for the US, makes me ill. What a pile of garbage.

Sucking it up and trying if you’re a swimmer or basketball play may look like a slower time, or a sub-par performance. Sucking it up and trying when you’re a gymnast can mean serious injury, paralysis, or death. She made the right call and her entire team supported her and went on to kick ass themselves.

All her teammates strongly supported her decision. When you care about your teammates, you care about their well-being as well as the work they contribute to your the team. None of those young ladies wanted to see simone suffer or injure herself for a medal. They value simone biles the person, not just simone biles…

If it was a physical injury that caused this, people wouldn’t be saying this.

She was right to put her health first. Geoffrey Kamworor just pulled out of the men's 10k. He would have medaled, but he has a stress fracture in his ankle. There's no discussion about if this was the right move.

This is why the “GOAT Simone Biles!!!” conversations annoyed me. If she’s not the greatest women’s gymnast of all time, who is? Comparing her to other sports is stupid.

Everyone of the athletes you listed as GOATs has lost or even cracked under the  pressure of one competition or another. To say one withdrawal, even at the Olympics (oh, and remember all her golds from last time?), cancels her GOAT status is absurd.

Gosh isn’t this what team events are for? To have alternates and be prepared? I bet the alternate was thrilled to participate!? Kudos to Ms. Biles for all she has achieved and will go on to achieve.