Posted on 07/22/2021 3:43:40 AM PDT by Kaslin
When I was a kid, probably 12 or so, I convinced my parents to get me a subscription to Sports Illustrated. I loved collecting baseball cards, playing the game with friends, and the Detroit Tigers weren’t too terrible (at the time), so getting my hands on as much information about baseball in an era before the Internet meant SI was about the only game in town. That it came with the annual swimsuit issue was just a bonus. What has happened to that “bonus” in recent years is yet another piece of proof that leftists will, if left unchecked, eventually ruin everything.
Kathy Ireland, Cindy Crawford, Tyra Banks, Elle MacPherson, Kate Upton, etc., etc., are known today, to one degree or another, because of their work in the swimsuit issue. The concept of supermodels comes from the speculation as to who would grace the cover each year. Before that, models, by and large, were irrelevant. Sure, someone would break through every once in a while – Christie Brinkley comes to mind – but they were the exception, not the rule.
Sports Illustrated not only made models a household name, it helped them make fortunes for themselves and all the other models who came after them.
Thanks to wokeness, the political left has dragged that cash cow into the public square and, like the Taliban executing a homosexual, slaughtered it because it was an affront to the political agenda they have made their god.
The swimsuit issue has been deteriorating for some time. They’ve moved away from attractive and fit women to “plus sized” women, which is polite speak for fat, and athletes as models. What they lost in circulation, Sports Illustrated more than made up for in glowing publicity.
Society went right down with them. Over the last few decades we have been inundated with mixed messages about health from the left. One message is based in science – obesity kills. Heart disease, stroke, diabetes, etc., etc., are all dangers of being overweight. The last year we added death from COVID 19 to that list.
On the other hand, we’ve also seen a bizarre push to “celebrate” all body types and end “fat shaming,” which is considered anything short of throwing a parade for cast members of “My 600-LB Life” and encouraging your children to grow up (and out) just like them. Fat shaming is pointing out that carrying hundreds of extra pounds while leading a sedentary life is not the key to longevity.
The truth can’t lie in both of these messages, it just can’t. The one based on the reality of the human life and actual science (at least till leftists demand it be changed) is the one people should pay attention to: being morbidly obese leads to premature morbidity.
Not allowed to say that anymore. Chunky women (ever notice how it’s always women? There is no push to make people like Michael Moore the new standard of attractiveness for men) are not only portrayed as beautiful, but they’re called “healthy” as well. It’s that insane.
Knowing all of this, Sports Illustrated is back to celebrating political correctness with this year’s swimsuit issue. Not only with obese “models” (the talentless Megan Thee Stallion on the cover, coupled with many more reportedly inside), but with a dude on an alternative cover too. When you’re trying to ruin a brand, you might as well really ruin it.
Someone called Leyna Bloom is one of the “cover models.” It’s a man who “identifies” as a woman and goes to great lengths to look like one. Across the top of the magazine it reads, “Opening eyes, speaking truths, changing minds.” They should add, “bastardizing reality.”
Bloom is a man, no amount of Photoshop will change that. I couldn’t care less about how anyone lives, I care that I’m expected, and soon we’ll be forced, to pretend the delusions of others are reality.
Today it’s a “trans woman” on the cover, but I suspect we’re only a couple of years away from a hairy, dirty, unshaven dude in a bikini gracing the cover, provided SI doesn’t go out of business first. Laugh all you want, but we’re told gender is a social construct and states like California are allowing male prisoners to be transferred to women’s prisons based on nothing more than the declaration that they’re secretly women on the inside, so what is society to tell anyone what a woman is supposed to look like?
It sounds stupid because it is stupid. Reality isn’t dependent upon your belief in it, nor your comfort with it. It just is. Men can’t get pregnant, women can’t get prostate cancer, and no matter how far back you tuck “reality,” or how many woke magazine covers the left publishes, nothing in the world will change that.
i hated my Kindle, and i buy used books.
Megan isn’t my cup of tea, but at least she isn’t blubbery fat. I’m sure a lot of guys find her attractive.
“Definitely a plus size! Abbondanza!”
That’s plenty of woman to love.
For books that are valuable, like The Road To Serfdom, Atlas Shrugged, Witness, 1984, Blackballed by History, and lately, Stealth War: How China Took Over While America’s Elite Slept, I usually get the hardcover, audiobook, and the eBook.
The eBooks for things like this are fantastic for highlighting and finding passages.
I came to this conclusion because my copy of The Road To Serfdom was so full of margin notes and highlights that they were basically useless. With eBooks, you can flag them and find them easily.
Buying fewer hardcover books, too. A lot fewer.
Just an evil sick world getting more evil and more sick...
I don’t think super models started with Sports Illustrated.
Super models didn’t start with Sports Illustrated. That was a tick in a high level portfolio. Super models started with runway work that segued into magazine shoots, one of them being the swimsuit edition. Runway work is still the foundation for professional models and almost always comes first.
The only other item I would argue on the author would be to add athletes as models. I think though, they cover them with the body issue.
At least it wasn’t Lizzo.
Uh, yeah, and I bought Playboy for the articles. Yeah, yeah, we all believe that.
Good on you, yah got away with it. :)
At least it wasn’t Lizzo.
The Sporting News was THE newspaper for baseball, in the 60s at least.
ML/NJ
Is Chicks with D*cks politically incorrect?
It's the same over at Victoria's Secret. (Remember those catalogues that used to arrive unsolicited in the mailbox? I sure do!)
Today, a visit to the VS website shows mostly tattooed "Body Positive" models "Living my truth" (WTF that even means?) with fat rolling over the tops of their panties.
“.... “Body Positive” models “Living my truth” ....”
“Living my truth” means mouth full of jelly donuts in woke-speak !
A lot of my history books are real books though I do have a nice selection on kindle. When I can get a $40 for $8 on a kindle sale I do it. Most current sci fi is kindle because I can try a new series for $4 for the first book. I also check the used VG. Sometimes a good deal sometimes, because of prime free shipping it is worth a dollar more for a new book.
These Leftists have lost all reason.
Plus she’ll keep you warm in the winter and cool in the summer..
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