Elite swimmer gets super real about hate she receives thanks to sexism

by Natalia Lusinski

''Some internet trolls may only know Laura Sogar as comedian Matthew Broussard’s girlfriend, but she’s way more—being a renowned swimmer and having completed her third Olympic trials this year. However, after Broussard appeared on Conan recently, some fans took to Reddit and praised him while dissing her. So not cool, people, so not cool.

Why, internet trolls, why?

“Women of my generation are given a lot of crap for being obsessed with their appearances,” Sogar writes. “Swimming has helped me avoid many of these pitfalls and find confidence in my abilities, not in what my body happens to look like.“

She was shocked that while her boyfriend was praised for being cool and funny, there was only one thing that mattered to critics of her:..''