Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Sports Illustrated Tries To Sell America On The 'Burkini' As Female Empowerment
Townhall.com ^ | April 30, 2019 | Kira Davis

Posted on 04/30/2019 4:23:49 AM PDT by Kaslin

click here to read article


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-90 next last
To: C210N

Hmm, I have never heard of a magazine called Scientific American. I used to subscribe many years ago to National Geographic.


61 posted on 04/30/2019 5:57:45 AM PDT by Kaslin
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: C210N

“...pushing the liberal agenda, sneaking it into every nook and cranny of each and every article.”

I have often been amazed at the Left’s fighting ability, as opposed to the vacuums Conservatives prefer. The Leftist agenda is pushed into every nook and cranny of our entire existence. Nothing is left untarnished. Nothing.

Jesus: “...for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.”


62 posted on 04/30/2019 5:58:35 AM PDT by odawg
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: a fool in paradise

Unfortunately, the ‘phobes at SI forgot about those people. We should protest as such erasure is literally violence. So exhausting.


63 posted on 04/30/2019 6:00:41 AM PDT by Stravinsky
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 57 | View Replies]

To: PTBAA

Oh, Gillette has a model that’s just perfect for this issue.


64 posted on 04/30/2019 6:01:41 AM PDT by Stravinsky
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 60 | View Replies]

To: ConservativeDude
"no trans woman? gosh these lefties arent walking the walk!"

Next years issue? Is that Ballsy-Ford?

65 posted on 04/30/2019 6:08:02 AM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 36 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

As a woman who has briefly been under sharia law, threatened with being sex trafficked if my blonde hair was seen from under my hijab and who has been body slammed to a cobblestone street for not covering my hair in London, I say screw SI.

This is the same publication that featured little girls in the swimsuit issue until Dean Smith’s wife brought to their attention that men look at SI swimsuit issue in a sexual way.

“In 1992, Linnea Smith began a letter-writing campaign to Sports Illustrated advertisers asking them to boycott the magazine’s annual swimsuit edition.

As Smith wrote to advertisers:

“SI’s swimsuit issue sexualizes children by juxtaposing them with female models featured only for their sexual desirability and ‘easy access’ to all consumers.”

She did not take issue with the models themselves, but the use of children in the photo spreads. For example, she pointed to a 1989 photograph of a topless Christie Brinkley posing next to her daughter, Alexa, who was nude with her back to the camera.

Alexa Joel, born in 1985, would have been four years old at the time of the photo spread. As Smith told the Associated Press:

“The Christie Brinkley one is the worst. It makes absolutely no sense at all. I was unable to ignore it after that.””

https://heavy.com/sports/2015/02/linnea-weblemoe-wife-dean-smith-barack-obama-michael-jordan/

I hope they burn in hell.


66 posted on 04/30/2019 6:08:04 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

Like creating a powerful company with longevity and burning it to the ground, these people are truly mental


67 posted on 04/30/2019 6:10:30 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (nicdip.com)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Stravinsky

“Christian women have been mocked”

40 years ago there was a Billy Joel song about Catholic girls. Imagine the outrage if someone wrote a song like that about Muslim girls.


68 posted on 04/30/2019 6:14:56 AM PDT by beef (Caution: Potential Sarcasm - Process Accordingly)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 49 | View Replies]

To: outofsalt
I owe this thread some eye bleach.


69 posted on 04/30/2019 6:18:37 AM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 65 | View Replies]

To: TMA62

How special. SI celebrates the way muslims mark their breeding stock.


70 posted on 04/30/2019 6:19:36 AM PDT by SanchoP (Why does DC hate Americans so much ?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: EQAndyBuzz

Not true!!! we lived in the ME during the 90’s, and the barber shop begged the Marines to bring them pornography.
They will look at the other pics. Just hypocrites.
Just like their women were head to toe dressed in black at the pool, and Achmed was in a speedo.
and eye balling the women in regular swimsuits.


71 posted on 04/30/2019 6:20:12 AM PDT by ronniesgal (so I wonder what his FR handle is????)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 42 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

If I had not already cancelled my subscription years ago - SI became way too political - I would now.


72 posted on 04/30/2019 6:20:35 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin
Several years ago , I worked at a large retailer and was called to run a register. My customers were two East African women, probably Somali, maybe Ethiopian. There are a lot of them in this area.

They were both buying LINGERIE! One had lacy black ones and the other had leopard print ones.

It was kinda uncomfortable, a strange man handling their underwear. But they were cool and nice, the transaction went fine.

Ever since then, when I see a woman in a hijab, I can't help but think, 'Yeah, I know what you're wearing UNDER that!'

I guess that's 'empowerment'.

73 posted on 04/30/2019 6:20:42 AM PDT by real saxophonist (One side has guns and training. Other side's primary concern is 'gender identity'. Who's gonna win?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: FreedomPoster
It’s a jump the shark moment for SI.

The year the foisted the fat swimsuit model on us should have been it. This definitely is.

74 posted on 04/30/2019 6:24:15 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (If it weren't for fake hate crimes, there would be no hate crimes at all.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 50 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin
From this:

To this:


75 posted on 04/30/2019 6:26:22 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

SI all went bad when they put Upton on the cover.
As one writer put it....”One twinkie away from being 200 lbs”


76 posted on 04/30/2019 6:27:27 AM PDT by Zathras
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: wardamneagle
When I was a kid (60’s) it was a good magazine that covered nothing but sports with great photography.

SI's heyday.... Great writers and great photography.

The rise of the 24 hour broadcast news and sports networks killed the weekly sports magazines (although I note that ESPN also puts out a magazine).

77 posted on 04/30/2019 6:30:52 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 31 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

MJ Day the woman who runs this issue is a super feminist SJW

big on the plus sized model thing

She’s like the folks who cover Nashville

They hate what it means but like the money


78 posted on 04/30/2019 6:35:01 AM PDT by wardaddy (When only the best Santa will do...call Joe Biden)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

The sports/entertainment industry has gone full left.


79 posted on 04/30/2019 6:35:02 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Lying Media: willing and eager allies of the hate-America left.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Alberta's Child; wardamneagle
Personally, I think the whole idea of a swimsuit issue completely destroyed SI’s credibility as a SPORTS magazine.

First swimsuit issue was in 1964, 55 years ago.

80 posted on 04/30/2019 6:37:37 AM PDT by Roccus (Obama & Holder LLP, Procurers of fine arms to the most discerning drug lords (202) 456-1414)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 34 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-90 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson