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In reply to the discussion: 2014 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue Revealed. [View all]Waiting For Everyman
(9,385 posts)When they're right, I'll say so; and when they're wrong, I'll equally say so. On this they are right.
Yes, that pose does mean exactly what Hell Hath No Fury said it does in post 92. Twerking, booty popping same thing.
Also, the hoopla and status about this cover further encourages the vapid "I'm for sale" culture which I detest.
I look at that and think, do you really have no self respect? I don't want to see someone's butt looking back at me on the cover of a major magazine -- not even a young, perfect butt. Ewww. NO. Not a male butt either btw. (Models who do it only because they need the money that badly, that I understand though.)
What I'd really like to see, in a perfect world, is a career-making magazine cover that featured ONLY the models who turned down the SI cover. I'd like to know who those women are. They should be famous.
I think people today have become a little too self-identified with the idea of animal evolution. They seem to feel that makes it ok to act in very uncivilized ways, from this, all the way to treating others savagely in the economy. I hate and oppose all of that mindset. I like civilization, manners, nobility of spirit, all that corny old stuff.
I am so bored with this whole "watch me act like an animal in heat" crap, I could figuratively scream. Really? This is who we are nowadays? It's pathetic. I worry for the future, frankly, if we can't even seem to think our way out of this ridiculous nonsense fad. Decades of it is enough, already.