Sports Illustrated is now on the social justice bandwagon

[Delta]

They just. Don't. Stop.

Synopsis of what actually happened: WNBA first round draft pick plays an obviously out of shape former Div II men's player in a 3 game series of one-on-one with some special rules designed to give her a chance; namely, a 4 dribble per possession limit (to take away his low post game) and no rebounding (i.e. defense gets ball on any miss). She wins the first game by 1 point but loses the series 2-1.

SI headline: WNBA Guard Lexie Brown Schools Former Division II Player in One-on-One Game. I shit you not. The article neglects to even mention that she lost the 3 game series.

I have no interest in discussing some bogus one-on-one game that neither side appears to be taking very seriously, but this is a fantastic example of the MSM's steady campaign to mislead the public into believing the genders are more similar than they actually are. Every article like this makes it more and more impossible to deny that they're deliberately trying to obscure reality.

 

[DarkTriad]

Yea I'm sure the reason nobody watches women's basketball has nothing to do with the fact that your average 30 something dude who plays in pick up games at the gym would be the best player in the WNBA by a wide margin.

This is horribly inaccurate. You would have to be a good high school player to be better than every woman in the WNBA.

 

[DarkTriad]

They just. Don't. Stop.

Synopsis of what actually happened: WNBA first round draft pick plays an obviously out of shape former Div II men's player in a 3 game series of one-on-one with some special rules designed to give her a chance; namely, a 4 dribble per possession limit (to take away his low post game) and no rebounding (i.e. defense gets ball on any miss). She wins the first game by 1 point but loses the series 2-1.

SI headline: WNBA Guard Lexie Brown Schools Former Division II Player in One-on-One Game. I shit you not. The article neglects to even mention that she lost the 3 game series.

I have no interest in discussing some bogus one-on-one game that neither side appears to be taking very seriously, but this is a fantastic example of the MSM's steady campaign to mislead the public into believing the genders are more similar than they actually are. Every article like this makes it more and more impossible to deny that they're deliberately trying to obscure reality.

My favorite is when they trot out a bunch of elderly, out of shape, sometimes obese ex-soccer legends and have them play a top women's pro team and the old, fat guys beat them without trying. It's on youtube if anyone wants to search, great comedy.

 

[SW15]

I couldn't believe that whole Ashley Graham thing.

 

[TheBowery]

SI laid off half of their staff, yet another victim of Get Woke Go Broke:
https://www.npr.org/2019/10/03/7669...strated-set-massive-layoffs-journalists-rebel

Not to be outdone, one of their journalists went after a college soccer team for flashing the "white supremacist" OK symbol, then apologized after learning it was a tribute to their ill teammate:
https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2019...pport-of-sick-teammate-for-dreaded-ok-symbol/

 

[MajorStyles]

SI laid off half of their staff, yet another victim of Get Woke Go Broke:
https://www.npr.org/2019/10/03/7669...strated-set-massive-layoffs-journalists-rebel

:dancingman:

 

[questor70]

SI laid off half of their staff, yet another victim of Get Woke Go Broke:
https://www.npr.org/2019/10/03/7669...strated-set-massive-layoffs-journalists-rebel

:dancingman:

At this point I'd love all of the SJW-infested male-oriented magazines to fail, with GQ next, followed by Wired.

 

[Papaya]

Sports illustrated is gone the way of the Playboy and GQ - a magazine done by women, gays and cucks for women, gays and cucks.

https://goodbyeamericainaphoto.wordpress.com/2017/03/01/pork-illustrated/

PORK ILLUSTRATED

Great headline - she looks like a beached whale. And next to most guys in bed this would look much much worse especially if you put her in the pic next to a hot slim girl, she would look as if she had eaten her.

It took a long time for SI to complete that shoot. People kept rolling her back into the water. :/ "It's drowning!"...

That's a picture of her making her way back to the sea after laying her eggs.

I guess they decided they werent that woke after all

Victoria's Secret Angel Josephine Skriver is named as Sports Illustrated Swimsuit's newest Rookie AND Super Bowl correspondent

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/...0-Issue.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ico=taboola_feed

 

[Easy_C]

Nah. Still note that there's a boyish, kinda masculine jaw that fashion types seem oddly obsessed with.

 

[Papaya]

Oh yeah... and extremely pointy elbows

WB

Would bless

 

[Emperor Constantine]

I wrote this back in June but didn't have anywhere to share it at the time:

The Tragic Decline of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue

When I was a kid, the swimsuit issue of SI was a heavenly forbidden fruit. We didn’t have a subscription – my mom disapproved of the magazine completely- but the hair salon we went to did. Glimpses of bare skin, seen in rare moments waiting for a haircut, fueled my adolescent lust and gave me an appreciation for female beauty.

Walking through Walmart last week, I passed the magazine rack and saw a cover featuring a lovely bikini-clad houri. Nostalgia flooded my mind. It had been more than a decade since I last gazed passionately at a glossy picture of an SI swimsuit girl. I brought it to the checkout, feeling a twinge of youthful excitement at the thought of buying such a mildly inappropriate magazine.

To my disappointment, the cashier didn’t bat an eye. As a young boy in a devoutly Catholic household, I used to assume that the world shared my family’s distaste for revealing pictures. But poisoned as we are by America’s sexually charged consumerist culture, I failed to receive any disgusted looks. I realized sadly that I’d also be deprived of the appropriate guilty feeling after perusing the contents of the magazine.

Upon returning home, I delicately opened the pages. A pretty blue-eyed brunette stared back at me from where she lay in the water. I turned the page. An obese woman tugged at the strings of her thong in a disastrous attempt at sexiness. Rolls of fat spilled over the strings of her bikini top, obscuring it.

I blinked. This is not what I remembered. I continued to flip through the pages. Inside this horrific pantomime of a dirty magazine I found a short-haired tattooed girl, a wrinkly quinquagenarian, a Muslim in a “burkini” that covered all but her face, one girl with a skin disease, and several girls suffering from obvious carbohydrate addiction.

The contents still included glistening hotties, to be sure. After all, the magazine must be sold somehow. But mixed in with the risqué shots of heart-wrenchingly beautiful angels were pictures of less attractive, fully-clothed, or outright undesirable women.

It’s not hard to figure out why Sports Illustrated did this. They don’t want to seem sexist. If they only include pretty women, then the magazine is a misogynistic periodical for uncivilized sinners like me. But if they bow to the altar of Diversity and display women of all ages, shapes, and sizes, then the magazine becomes a celebration of feminist ideology; a publication acceptable in the eyes of popular morality.

Physical beauty is not given to everyone. For those to whom this treasure has been bestowed, it’s fleeting and painful to maintain. Everyone wants to feel beautiful, and publications like SI now seek to take what’s special away from being gorgeous by pretending that everyone is.

I suppose I should be thankful. The wretches hard at work destroying all that’s good or beautiful in the world inadvertently saved my soul from lust. But instead of gratitude, I felt only mild disappointment. If my sanctity is made possible only by the Left taking all the fun out of sinning, it’s not really sanctity; is it?