3 women are being honored with medals -- and 1 man decides to make it about him.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

179. The basic takeaway:

There are two true things to be said:

1. The sentence in the AP story was poorly worded. "Bigger prize" was somewhat demeaning of her accomplishments. They should have written something to the effect of "another prize" or "another big moment" or something like that.

2. Public proposals are arguably cheesy.

Of course, those two things alone don't write an article. So the person who wrote the Salon piece had to go on and on about how she doesn't want to be corralled into other people's lifestyle choices and also how dare her boyfriend come in and steal the moment from her and the two other medalists and how her boyfriend was subjugating her and all women and her moment.....honestly, it just makes the author sound like a bitter, insufferable grouch.

He Zi was the second greatest diver in the world at her event. No one and nothing is going to take that fact away. The fact that her boyfriend of six years who is also an Olympic diver came up right after the ceremony and proposed to her is not going to take that fact away. Seriously, people.

And no, unless I hear otherwise from the Gold or Bronze medalists, nothing was taken away from them. You win an event like that, and you're just in a glowing dream state. I remembered after participating in my first open water swimming event, and while I didn't win it, I had a much better time than I ever anticipated and I came out of the water beaming. I honestly couldn't tell you anything about how any of the other competitors were reacting or celebrating or what they were saying. I was just proud of my accomplishments and I had earned that pride.

I'm sorry, but this is all just so silly to get worked up over nothing.