Pretty judgemental attitudes from people who're regularly as naked as she is in this PETA picture.
Amanda has two jobs:
1. Professional swimmer
2. Model
The incremental difference between what Amanda wears at one job, professional swimmer, and what she shows in this ad related to her other job, model, is minimal.
She's barely showing more than if she wore a two-piece workout suit to training camp in this photo. Help me understand where the line exists between acceptable training gear and moral outrage.
She's entitled to feel strongly about whatever causes strike her as important, regardless of how the rest of us feel about them. She's also entitled to continue making a living as a model. This pic seems to raise awareness about a cause she cares about and probably advances her modeling career. There's nothing wrong with either/both.
I'm not a fan of PETA, but even as AB does benefit professionally from the spread, there's also something very cool about such an overt - and dare I say overtly American - display of free speech in Beijing, China.
As for taking her seriously, I'll bet there are some women in that 200 BR final in Omaha who wish they'd taken her a bit more seriously.
Yes, I'd say the same thing.
Phelps already has the cheesy Playgirl 'stache so he's halfway there.
Maybe he has an upcoming bit part on Swingtown?
It's not like Amanda is the first to pose naked for PETA--give her a break!
Now this kind of thing is cool. You'll notice not one of these people is either goofily grinning or seductively beckoning. This is much more artistic, IMHO. And I appreciate the beauty of the athletic body without the cheesy "come hither" eyes.
I have to wonder how shocked and disapproving most would be if any of those male athletes were to be posing seductively for the camera. I can only imagine the names they'd be called... Somehow it's demeaning for men and empowering for women, though, eh?
I just think it's naked body, posed athletically or seductive, it's still art. Geek won't look at those daily mail photos though, the guys look like they've been "shaving" heaven forbid!
The double standard is a crock. It needs to go...
I'm a female Peta-hatin' pro-nudity animal lover and this doesn't offend me. You can bet if I had a body like that that I worked hard for, I'd want others to appreciate its form as well as its function.
So she's an exhibitionist. So she may have just found this cause. Perhaps she isn't absolutely consistent yet, it doesn't necessarily make her a hypocrite. Whenever you make an ideological change it is a process.
I like the way she looks, I like the way she swims, so she is okay by me. I like people who get out there and try things for themselves and make messes and do things they might regret. It makes them more interesting.
Not supposed to be about politics.....leave that garbage at home!!!
The Olympics are about sport.......that is why we don't Boycott them anymore....leave your personal and political BS at home....and just compete.....
We respectfully disagree.
I say good for her! I wish more athletes were willing to take political stands.
It's very easy to say "let's just keep it about sport" ... unfortunately, that ship has long ago sailed and trying to reframe/rewind a globalized, corporatized, and heavily politicized money-making endeavor like the Olympics is as silly as our President trying to bring us back to the 50's. Hopelessly naive.
Jackie Robinson, John Carlos, Tommie Smith, Wilma Rudolph, Billie Jean King, Mohammed Ali ... there were some athletes who took their social responsibilities seriously.
It's bad enough that China, with its abhorrent human rights history, got the games. That our country and our athletes are not willing to speak out more loudly is embarrassing on a global scale.
My 2¢ anyway, as a Chinese American.
"let's just keep it about sport"
What's so wrong about wanting that? Political statement or not... I just don't want to see boobage throughout a sporting event - this is not the exactly the same situation - but I was not happy when Janet Jackson had the "wardrobe malfunction" at the SuperBowl a while back. There is a time and place for everything - and OUR CHILDREN are also watching and reading about what is going on at the Olympics, do we really need an anatomy lesson along with the competition?
Flawed reasoning. Just because somebody poses nude does not mean they engage in the world's oldest profession. By the way, people can engage in the world's oldest profession partially clothed.
..and earn extra for it ! ;)
