Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue : 50 Years of Women's Objectification
Over the years, the models on the covers have been wearing less and less fabric ; it’s not even trying to pretend it’s about fashion anymore. It already had nothing to do in a sports’ magazine aimed at men in the first place, now it’s barely feeding off the momentum of each year release and the so-called making of new supermodels.
The very treatment of the women’s image is terrible. The first covers and spreads in the 60s and 70s had a great focus on the landscape and featured some actual fashion. Now the shots are way more focused on the models, which are nearly naked and are featured taking off what is left on their body. We hear all the time how Tyra Banks was the first Black woman to make the cover of the Swimsuit Issue ; well guess what ? She is the only one to date, apart from Beyoncé who appeared on the 2006 covers. And no Asian, no South-Asian, no Native.
Also what’s up with shooting a model in fucking Antarctica ? Kate Upton has commented on how the shoot was horribly hard; she said she experienced eyesight and hearing lost afterwards because her body was freaking shutting down. Worse, the results were so underwhelming : it looked like it was shot in front of a green screen. Not even worth almost killing a model. Oops.
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http://www.ixdaily.com/drop-your-skirt/sports-illustrated-swimsuit-issue-50-years-womens-objectification
Just thought the other (progressive) side of this issue deserved an OP of its own.
And I fully expect for one of the usual suspects to start posting pics in here to antagonize feminists, so if you do, don't think you're being original or clever. Using images depicting objectification to harass feminists isn't new or intelligent.
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It's apparently supposed to be a gap-filler when there's no sports to cover. Which is odd, since I'm pretty sure there's ALWAYS sports going on.
Also, having attractive breasts is equal to having skill in playing a sport. So it's practically the same, I guess?
I must say it's an amusing experience, as a man, to be mansplained towards. I was expecting the question, "do you even lift, bro?" to come up.
I wasn't exacgtly a gym rat in high school... but... there are varieties of competitive athletics besides basketball, hockey, and football, yes? For instance... boxing? Pretty sure that's a year-round thing - it was back when the firs swimsuit issue came out. I know there's lacrosse which I guess counts as a sport 
Point is there's really not any reason for there to be a "gap" in sports journalism, because yes, there actually is always something to cover. Somehow the sports pages of newspapers all over the nation manage it.
Hell, we could get sports AND treating women as objects this time of year, with a little internationalism.
Meet Finland:
I didn't know sodium-laced kool-aid had waned in popularity!
But I'm not complaining. 
So...
Reminds me of that one asshole who had his pickup truck bed liner painted in a way that made it look like there was a woman tied up and gagged in the bed of the truck.
Women would NEVER play men for sport, ever! It never happens!
Like apples and Phillips head screws.
often played the same weekend the swimsuit issue came out in the 60s and 70s. So there were a few sports available, for the truly dedicated 
One of the greatest female athletes ever- Jackie Joyner-Kersee. By Annie Liebovitz
Born on March 3, 1962, in East St. Louis, Illinois, Jackie Joyner-Kersee was the first American to win gold for the long jump and the first woman to earn more than 7,000 points in the seven-event heptathlon. She's ultimately won three golds, a silver and two bronze, making her the most decorated female athlete in Olympic track and field history. She's gone on to advocate for children.
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In 1986, Joyner-Kersee married her coach, Bob Kersee. He also trained Joyner-Kersee's sister-in-law, the late track star Florence Joyner. Bob came under media speculation in 1988, when Florence Joyner improved her times in the 100-meter run, 200-meter run and 4-by-100 meter relay—and took gold medals in all three events—at the 1988 Olympics. Many people questioned Bob's training techniques and suggested that he could have been encouraging his runners to use performance-enhancing drugs. In the late 1990s, Bob became a volunteer member of UCLA's track and field coaching staff—a position he has held for more than a decade.
A sufferer of exercise-induced asthma, Joyner-Kersee officially retired from track and field in 2001 at age 38. Following her retirement, she founded the Jackie Joyner-Kersee Youth Center Foundation, which is aimed at encouraging youth in her underprivileged hometown to play sports.
more
http://www.biography.com/people/jackie-joyner-kersee-9358710
This is how she was portrayed on the cover of SI
How SI has deteriorated when picturing women as athletes. To now picking models as eye candy and objects. Is SI the new Hustler Magazine! It is meant to titillate and sell as many magazines as possible. It's humiliating.
It's not just that Antarctica is polar. Antarctica also has no warm-water currents; they're blocked off by the circumpolar current that surrounds the continent. There's also not much by way of windbreak anywhere in the place; the tallest things outside the mountains (which are nowhere near the coast / ice shelves) are birds that are four feet tall if they stretch. So there's the wind chill.
Blankets? Okay. here, let me show you something.
That is a picture of people on an Antarctica tour. They are dressed in multiple layers of clothing designed for very low temperatures. This clothing is supplied, in this case, by the national Geographic society, and I have to imagine the NGS knows how to equip people for that. You know what? all of those people in that picture are still cold. They're going to hike around and take pictures for maybe 30 minutes before being shuttled back to that ship where they will hide out in warmed cabins and thaw out while talking about penguins. And this is a springtime picture in the South Georgia Islands, which is basically Antarctica's version of a tropical getaway. So yeah... cold place.
Blankets... really aren't going to cut the mustard. especially not over the course of hours. While I'm sure the people around her made all the efforts they could to keep Kate warm, what she describes is completely inadequate for the conditions. There's also just the consideration of how the industry works - you want to get as many shots, as quickly as you can, but the shoot can still take hours upon hours.
The problem is just that the human body doesn't withstand Antarctica very well - it's the one place humans have never settled, and for good reasons. it doesn't matter that each instance of Upton's exposure to the weather was as brief as the crew could make it - it was still exposure. Exposure is cumulative, if you're not taking time to fully recover from it. And in fact alternating from warm to cold to warm to cold again can make it worse. Here we have a woman who is doing nude photo shoots in the most inhospitable place with breathable air on the planet, and all that's standing between her and becoming an ice sculpture is some interns with quilts.
And you want to call her a liar, on the basis that she's a model? Really?
The anniversary issue is what have people talking about it.
Carry on. 
Not all the people showing their ass in these threads are doing so literally.
You're such a voice for women!
who learn and grow over time. I know I have. I used to be quite the pro-objectification liberal feminist. I used to think if we could just objectify more men, everything would be equal and all that. 
I got a huge wake up call when one particular liberal man showed his ass, and made it crystal clear that simply showing more mostly naked hot men cannot balance any scales. The only way to change society is to stop indoctrinating women to view themselves as objects, and stop indoctrinating men to view them as such.
You seem to misunderstand why people quote bloggers.
It isn't to try to "prove" something or an attempt to add credibility to an opinion. Many of these debates aren't able to be proven scientifically and never will be.
The point of quoting a blogger is because you found something someone else wrote, and you appreciate the way they've explained something, you agree with the point of view, and it saves you the trouble of writing the same damn thing all over again.
That's it.
Can't propagate a species without it.
And after seeing the fireman calendars my sister, ex-wife and my own mother love to pass around I'd say what's good for the goose is good for the gander.
Maybe you're just upset about the scale of commerce and obsession...
Personally, I'd like to help with the bodypaint portion of the magazine.
I've always been good with my hands....
with "propagating the species" 
There is nothing 'deplorable' about heterosexuality, or lust, or sex. Men lust after women, and women lust after men. It isn't dirty.
and lust between men and women are normal.
to images intended to portray them as playthings?
Your post is literally stomach-churning. It reaches republican levels of ignorance of the issues facing women.
Every time I think I've seen the worst possible thing on this board, someone lowers the bar. Be proud.
Someone points out that the pervasive sexualised objectification of women in our media-driven culture is unhealthy and reinforces a lot of ugly things; the same half-dozen people (who oddly enough are all male) turn up to say "but you're being a prude for not embracing a body-positive message of healthy sexuality! Why do you hate women?"; to cherrypick the 5% of images that consist of shirtless male models ("Look! Here's David Beckham on a Calvin Klein billboard! See? Men are objectified too!" to dismiss the issue via false equivalence; and to appropriate third-wave feminist "sex-positivity" to say "but what if they're fine with being objectified? that makes it okay!" (while being completely ignorant of some mainstream feminst movements against precisely this sort of sexualised objectification, mostly in the UK; see here and here for instance).
