'Trolled for our small bums and boobs' Kate 19, and Izzy, 20, Team GB swimmers

[arista]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-57778626


[Many of us would love to look
more athletic - but for Kate Shortman and Izzy Thorpe,
their physiques as pro synchronised swimmers
have led to them being trolled and bullied.

Kate 19, and Izzy, 20, who will represent
Team GB for Artistic Swimming at Tokyo 2020,
describe themselves as having "big shoulders,
small boobs and small bums".

Their bodies have been honed over
10 years of vigorous training including
speed swimming, weightlifting, dance and gymnastics.
They say they've often been
called "manly" or "too muscular".
"Swimmers tend to get big shoulders and when
I was younger I would wear things to
cover my shoulders - baggy clothing that
would make them less noticeable," says Izzy.

"If I was posting pictures on social media I
would try to crop them out of pictures,
or try and make them look less prominent
to avoid getting negative comments."]


They are Good Artistic Swimmers
that's all that matters.
https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/78A2/production/_119328803_51d2ee2e-d289-4256-aefb-a146df74596a.png

[Alf]

A chest like that comes in handy when you don't have a spirit level in the house.

[Amy Jade]

Poor girls. I hope they take solace in the fact its always the pin dick old men who do this and the jealous hateful girls with dull lives.

[arista]

Poor girls. I hope they take solace in the fact its always the pin dick old men who do this and the jealous hateful girls with dull lives.



Yes its Typical Trolls
to be expected, these days.

[Alf]

Poor girls. I hope they take solace in the fact its always the pin dick old men who do this and the jealous hateful girls with dull lives.So you're against these girls taking a ribbing, but not only are you fine with but also take part in ribbing pin dick old men with dull lives.

Pin dick old men with dull lives are humans too.

[Crimson Dynamo]

So you're against these girls taking a ribbing, but not only are you fine with but also take part in ribbing pin dick old men with dull lives.

Pin dick old men with dull lives are humans too.

We, I mean yes they are

:oh:

[UserSince2005]

Get implants?

[hijaxers]

Get implants?

Not every woman wants 'alien' silicone air bags inserted.

[Ammi]

….beautiful ladies, fabulously fit and athletic bodies, incredible athletes and representing their country as the best …:love:..…trolls will troll sadly….


WdWB2n0TBr4

[Oliver_W]

It is gross to make such weird and personal comments about anyone's body, let alone someone who wants to represent their country in the Olympics ...

But all celebrities get comments and jokes made about their appearance. Doesn't make it okay, but it doesn't make it article-worthy either.

[user104658]

Pin dick old men have problems too, they’re just like you, except they’re dull…

[Cherie]

What is the obsession with big bums these days I really don’t understand

[user104658]

What is the obsession with big bums these days I really don’t understand


Some guy mentioned it and he literally, physically, could not lie so everyone just had to go with it?

[Crimson Dynamo]

there was a slew of pics of this beautiful Victoria Secrets model in a swimsuit yesterday on the DM that I accidentally clicked on when i was searching for House of Commons news - the top 5 most popular comments were all like "25?? her face looks like she is 35" "maybe if she eat she wouldn't look so grumpy" etc

you cant win

:joker:

[Livia]

This won't change till people are made to take responsibility for what they write. You can't win, like LT said.

[Marsh.]

there was a slew of pics of this beautiful Victoria Secrets model in a swimsuit yesterday on the DM that I accidentally clicked on when i was searching for House of Commons news - the top 5 most popular comments were all like "25?? her face looks like she is 35" "maybe if she eat she wouldn't look so grumpy" etc

you cant win

:joker:

Not too dissimilar to the comments you made about Davina McCall.

[thesheriff443]

As an older man I don’t think you can win

I will say men and women willingly sleep with men and women older and younger than them and In turn they sleep with men and women older and younger than them willingly.

[DouglasS]

Not too dissimilar to the comments you made about Davina McCall.

Many have made similar comments about Boris Johnson, Matt Hancock, Piers Morgan, Trump. Yourself included, no point taking the moral high ground :shrug:

[bots]

the women i have seen that have ass enhancements have looked nothing short of ridiculous, give me the natural small butt every time

[Tom4784]

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[Mystic Mock]

It is gross to make such weird and personal comments about anyone's body, let alone someone who wants to represent their country in the Olympics ...

But all celebrities get comments and jokes made about their appearance. Doesn't make it okay, but it doesn't make it article-worthy either.

I think that it's getting news headlines because of their ages tbf.

[Mystic Mock]

Many have made similar comments about Boris Johnson, Matt Hancock, Piers Morgan, Trump. Yourself included, no point taking the moral high ground :shrug:

I can't believe that I've just felt sorry for Boris, Hancock, and Piers Morgan for being mentioned in the same category as Trump. That's too cruel as Trump deserves most of the abuse that he gets.:joker:

[GoldHeart]

Get implants?

So basically the answer to trolling and bullying is to get implants?!! :facepalm:.
Why should they get cosmetic surgery to please others?? .

[MTVN]

Without being creepy I find it hard to believe anyone could pick fault with how they look, the stuff about 'big shoulders' etc would never have occurred to me

[thesheriff443]

Without being creepy I find it hard to believe anyone could pick fault with how they look, the stuff about 'big shoulders' etc would never have occurred to me

There will always be people that find fault with others

My niece had a friend from school who left to go to America she was about 14 but trained as a gymnast
Seeing them together did show how more developed her shoulders where compared to my niece

Not in a bad way

[Ammi]

…I recall Rebecca Adlington talking about it one time and Victoria Pendleton had very poor body image as well if I recall and I’ve been reading articles that it’s something targeted at female athletes quite a lot …?…it’s just sadly again how women are judged in different ways and on their bodies, their appearance etc as well…whereas with a guy it would more be on his athletic ability in his sport field only…?…but with a woman it’s that need for some to comment on the physical appearance of her training in her sport in terms of her ‘feminine attraction’…the ‘whataboutery’ stuff with males, that would only compare if it was male athletes who have spent their life training and rather than focus on their sport, the focus is on their bodies and their ‘attract ability rating’….

[Tireur]

Without being creepy I find it hard to believe anyone could pick fault with how they look, the stuff about 'big shoulders' etc would never have occurred to me

They looked perfectly okay to me as well, but this thread reminded me of a crack occasionally used by my irreverent old man.
“A woman’s breasts should be no smaller than a champagne glass, (this was obviously prior to flutes), and no larger than a large man’s hand.”
I loved him to bits, but he was outrageous at times.