Came here to say this. DO NOT make MY THING all about YOU.

Seriously, right? This was her moment. HER MOMENT. What an asshole.

That would be grounds for a HELL NO from me. I can’t think of a marriage proposal less romantic and more self-centered.

Furry Woodland Creature’s shiv: Never derail discussion of the minimizing of women’s accomplishments with DUR, MEN JUST STOOPID. If you stand on my foot bc you are stupid, you still need to get the fuck off my foot before I shiv you.

Seriously — I would have said no.

Come on, Beatles Reference Kinja Name. It’s critical to point out micro-aggressions as well as larger sexist and racist offenses.

That’s how pervasive sexism works. He did not stop & think that maybe marrying him was not as important as the culmination of her years of training. But he DID think that the culmination of HIS years of training was more important than a proposal. Sexism isn’t always about misogyny. Sometimes it’s just about treating…

He should have done it at his medal ceremony.

YES. I have a friend whose fiancee proposed to her at her graduation from a top Ivy League school, for which she worked really really hard to succeed at. I will forever be pissed at him for stealing her moment like that.

I wouldn’t have handled that well. My friend was proposed to the evening of our graduation, and I guess her partner was trying to propose during the ceremony but couldn’t get passed security. I couldn’t believe someone would think that taking such a big and personally meaningful moment from someone would be a good…

Public proposals are gross anyway.

I would have told him to get off the damn stage. You wait 6 years to propose and decide that the best time is during an Olympic medal ceremony? Nuh-uh that silver medal is the only bling she needs right then.

Yeah, sorry a proposal is nothing compared to WINNING AN OLYMPIC MEDAL. So, so insulting.

And then to have it described as the “bigger prize.”

Yeah, fucking FUCK this. Let her have her goddamn once in a lifetime moment. This is like dudes who propose at someone else’s wedding.

Yeah I feel like that wasnt cool.

Right? I would have been REAL PISSED.

This was exactly what I was thinking! Congrats but what an ass, get away from the podium and let girl have her moment!!

Cute, but he stole her thunder. I don’t know if I’d have been okay with him stealing my shine with a proposal. But she loves him I guess.