Totally understandable, right? Unfortunately, it turned out to be anything but normal when someone from the management team came and told Tori to cover up.
"Today my fiancée was faced with either changing her bathing suit, covering up with shorts, or leaving the pool that we paid a $300 fee to maintain on top of a monthly rent of nearly $1000," he wrote.
Tori decided to go to the apartment office, and that's where things got super weird, creepy, and downright infuriating.
Yeah, like doing that isn't even more inappropriate, too, right? The classy consultant then told Tori that she wouldn't want her kids around Tori, and that she couldn't understand because she wasn't a mother. And it gets worse!
Sadly, Tori heard some stubbornly common misogynistic things, like "there are a lot of teenage boys in this complex, and you don't need to excite them."
What? How can a human body possibly be inappropriate?! "Today my fiancée was told that she is less important than how men feel around her," Tyler wrote. It's heartbreaking.
"Never seen her want to be isolated like that. I've never seen a woman so disrespected." It's absolutely infuriating, and it's no surprise that Tori was left devastated and Tyler outraged.
The consultant is clearly in the minority, as literally thousands of people have expressed their solidarity with the couple in Facebook comments, and also by sharing their story.
Tyler's words bear repeating, loud and clear: "My fiancée being told she should cover up... because she will 'excite teenage boys' is bullshit. My fiancée should be able to wear a bathing suit without being sexualized and demeaned." Sadly, she's far from alone.
Women know the incredible balancing act it takes to find a bathing suit that you feel comfortable and good about yourself in that's even remotely practical, inexpensive, and even a little modest.
It's a good point — even if she was just enforcing the (arbitrary and vague) rules, that's no reason to rip into the poor girl and tear her down. That's just horrible.
You can't blame them — the outrage fire on this one is burning hot, and with good reason. And you have to think they'd have a decent case, too. Sadly, this battle over what you can wear is an old one, and it's only getting more fierce.
Keyboard jockeys cloaked behind anonymity feel free to say all kinds of awful, hurtful things because they know there aren't any real consequences. And posting pics from the beach is not the same thing as asking for opinions.
"To all the people writing horrible comments saying I look like a washed up whale in these pictures I won't let you get me down and try and body shame a pregnant woman! No women should be shamed for the way they look," she wrote in reply.
It's great that she got so much support, but how awful is it that that was her biggest fear? Shouldn't she just be afraid of spiders or maybe public speaking like the rest of us?
This blogger wrote about her years of body image struggles, saying, "For most of my life I have hated my body. Despised it. Loathed it. Resented it... I've been terribly ashamed of its wobbles and dimples; like somehow they are the measure of who I am."
Finally, she worked up the courage to take some pics and post them on Facebook, and found it freeing.
As the hilarious ladies otherwise known as imomsohard showed, lots of designs don't have practicality in mind, and the message they send to women about being sexy all the time is ludicrous.
She wasn't even wearing one of those silly cutout bathing suits, and somebody still decided to police her body and put her down. It's outrageous.