Olympians Kate Shortman and Isabelle Thorpe use lingerie to call out body shamers

The New York Post ^ | 7/19/21 | Elizabeth Karpen

[ArcadeQuarters]

Not exactly a brave move but I won’t complain.

[dangus]

Women with perfectly fit bodies, showing them off, in the name of ending judging people by their looks. Shakes head. “Look at me! Look at me!”

[JD_UTDallas]

Great pic. Swimmers and gymnasts God’s gift to similarly fit men. My first X wife was built just like the one on the right being varsity cheer, parallel bars, and floor routine gymnast. VERY Petite with solid arms,legs, and and glutes to die for. Everyone used to get on to use as we both were hard core athletes at the time “to eat a sandwich” truth was we both took in 3500+ kcals a day. These young women are perfect those who would body shame them are to use a term they would understand “haters”

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

#6. Thanks for the image. Excuse me while I clean the Rice Krispies and Banana off of my computer screen. The bill is on the way to you.

[wardaddy]

I prefer full d to g breasts personally

But these are some fine looking women

Protest away

Or thou doth protect not enough

[Alberta's Child]

Sure beats the photo of Serena and Venus Williams on the cover of Sports Illustrated some years ago. One NYC radio host who did the sports updates on Don Imus’ radio show took a lot of heat for saying they looked like they should have been on the cover of National Geographic. LMAO.

[outofsalt]

Ok, fine, but they’ll never make the Sports Illustrated swim suit issue.

[heartwood]

No one told them to cover up their muscles. Did not happen. Or their small breasts or big shoulders.

[NobleFree]

I would never shame those bodies.

They’re not wearing lingerie - they’re wearing underwear.

[redangus]

My thoughts exactly. Can’t see anyone body shaming these two, but I’d like a few more inches top and bottom. I’m old school. Actually I’m just old. But I lean towards the the 60’s Italian movie star body type.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I like muscular female legs, personally, so I’m not sure why anyone would consider an Olympian lady non-feminine.*

*Old East German athletes exempted, of course. :-)

[redangus]

A solid “D or DD”, plus some hips to hold onto would be nice.

[Former Proud Canadian]

Body shaming?

They might be skinny for some tastes but, yes, these two are perfect.

[9YearLurker]

“Artistic swimming”?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nd65ziXTv6s

[PapaBear3625]

They look perfectly fine. Healthy, fit women were always a turn on for me.

[PapaBear3625]

[dynachrome]

Let’s hope the male weightlifter competing in the womens category doesn’t join in.

[moovova]

“...to spread the message that there is no correct definition of a “feminine body.”...”

Yep. Some feminine bodies have a penis.

[larrytown]

Typical pre-Olympic ‘look-at-me’ publicity stunts. Like the sullen third-place hammer tosser - they’re not going to place at the Olympics, so they have to play these games in order to keep sponsorships, ad money, etc., flowing in.

“Attention whore” is a paying gig in this brave new internet world, after all.