2014 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue Revealed.

[The Straight Story]

572. She has something others don't

Which is why most are on the cover.

She worked hard on having the body she does, she excels where others have not. Same with men they have on the cover.

I do agree with you that they use women at SI mainly for their sex appeal. Which is, again, one reason among many why I don't read SI (though as I have mentioned before I do check their site for scores during college football season).

They pimp a select few to an audience that wants what they sell. Pretty women, men with great bodies, etc and so on. They don't feature gamers, chess players (usually), and so on - they focus on the physical.

So they show women in bikini's. Lots of people like them. Does that mean they hate women and see them as only sexual?

You see - that is where the problem comes in for me and others on DU.

SI is crap. I will give you that.

But do you honestly feel that folks on DU hate women because they don't hate that some pose like this? I get the whole sexism angle of it. I have a daughter (well, 2) and I don't want her to be seen as 'just a piece of meat' to people. She is smart, funny, creative, and I want her to be loved based on who she is and not her looks.

But seriously? People will look at some folks and see them as pretty, sexy, etc. People like to look at things they like. For me it is the desert, for others the mountains. On SI it is women in bikinis and men throwing a damned ball.

I don't think those people hate others. On Du we throw around the word misogyny which means hatred of women. Does someone really hate women because they find some more appealing than others?

We objectify everyone in some form or another. See some guy holding cute puppies? Some folks swoon over that. They don't know anything about him but hey, he is cute and likes puppies.

We are talking about an SI swimsuit edition for crying out loud. Something anyone could see at any beach they go to. Plenty of women work their asses off just to get men to look at them and wear what they wear to accomplish just that (see fashion, et al). These models busted their butts to get on the cover because that is what they wanted.

You can judge them all you want and SI. The problem myself and others have is when folks start to tell people like me and others that we hate women, don't care about them, etc because we don't see everything the same way they do. We are all haters who want to keep women down and in their place.

These women chose to be on the cover, chose to pose as they did, because they wanted to and wanted the attention and money it got them. They are using men for their own needs in that sense. Good for them. You want to stop them and keep them from reaching their goals, making the money they have? go for it.