Be honest, what do you think when you see this picture of 21-year-old Australian Rules Football player Tayla Harris?
Do you think, "Wow, what an amazing athlete"?
Or do you notice that she's semi-hot and that you can see most of her legs and thighs?
TV network 7AFL, which broadcasts the games, was the one to post the picture to social media. When perverts predictably made sexual comments about the picture, they quickly took the photo down, only to return it back to Twitter after they were criticized for trolls having the power to get them to remove a picture of a female athlete.
https://twitter.com/twt/status/1107980713263980544
What a fucking mess.
I think that 7AFL knew the whole time that perverts were going to think naughty things about the picture, and posted it for that reason (because it's an attention grabber). Then they didn't know what to do when they started getting pressure regarding the sexual responses (which they can't delete), and panicked.
Tayla Harris herself is incredibly disgusted by the whole thing, referring to the commenters as "animals":
https://twitter.com/twt/status/1107933757976117249
While I don't support anyone making crude comments to women on social media, and would never do it myself, I think it's rather tone deaf of 7AFL or anyone else to post a picture like that and expect otherwise. Before posting a picture like that, you need to think of the likely response you're going to get, and then decide whether or not you (and the subject of the picture) are willing to deal with it. If not, don't post it.
It's unfortunate that the world works this way, but it does. You will never scrape all the perverts and trolls off the internet, and any picture with a suggestive pose (even if unintentional) is always going to get crude comments.
I also think it's funny how some are claiming that the picture was intended to be a "triumph of her athletic ability", when clearly those sharing it knew exactly the reaction a lot of men were likely to have to it.