Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue Sparks Controversy. Offensive or Overreaction?

Yahoo News ^ | 2/13/13 | By Elise Solé, Shine Staff | Healthy Living

[YankeeReb]

Help! Help! I'm being Exploited!!

[Red Badger]

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[GeronL]

at least they are nude with paint this year

still a stupid thing

[Red Badger]

Hey! I know that guy! He was in The Gods Must Be Crazy!.......

[dfwgator]

Gay Test: If the first thing you notice in the picture are the natives, I've got some bad news for you.

[driftdiver]

What do they expect when you go to these places in the world? good grief, how many norwegians live in the sahara?

[al baby]

Great movie

[Venturer]

If something isn’t offensive to a Muslim it is probably offensive to some minority.

The only answer is to use only Catholic white people in the background. No one cares if whites or catholics are offended.

But then-—that would probably offend a muslim or a minority too.

[manc]

what on earth is there to be insulted about for crying out loud.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

The left is mad when minorities get jobs and mad when they don’t.

Pick a side.

[Tzimisce]

...the libs that write SI are in trouble with their lib colleagues?

Maybe they’ll kill each other....

[elkfersupper]

Hey, that has been all about fun for decades now.

It is a valued tradition.

People just need to lighten up a little, and I am serious.

[gundog]

I’m guessing the one of a young lady rubbing her keister on the Libyan flag could be problematic for our next Ambassador.

[The Cajun]

Yup, that's what we got to worry about.

Oh the humanity, LOL!

[gundog]

BTTT

[discostu]

Overreaction. For one thing where the photos were done those people aren’t minorities. For another, people should whine less. It’s funny they’re complaining these people are used as props, just what exactly do they think the models are.

[When do we get liberated?]

Yeah. Someone has to stop this exploitation....So he was exploited by paying him far more than he makes normally to point into the distance and look at her bum. Yeah, gotta stop this.

[VRW Conspirator]

Gay Test: If the first thing you notice in the picture are the natives, I've got some bad news for you.

What natives?

[Chad N. Freud]

Poor sports, illustrated.

[American in Israel]

5 years in a Liberal Arts College, and you too can find many intellectual reasons to be pissed about nothing. If it takes a long explanation as to why someone else should be offended, its horse manure disguised as intellect.