10. Sports Illustrated
DISRESPECTS women
through sex-discriminatory coverage of women's sports. (Fewer than 10 percent
of Sports Illustrated pages are devoted to women's athletic achievements.)
9. Sports Illustrated
DISRESPECTS women
by displaying demeaning stereotypes of female sexuality. The swimsuit issue
features women models posed not as athletes of strength, skill, and endurance
but as playthings--in costumes no one could possibly swim in competitively.
8. The Sports Illustrated
swimsuit issue DISRESPECTS women
by showing women's primary value to be their value as sex objects.
7. Sports Illustrated
DISRESPECTS women
by photographing their bodies as if they are merely body parts--breasts,
buttocks, and crotches.
6. Sports Illustrated
DISRESPECTS women
by encouraging boys and young men to view women as sex toys and by turning
voyeurism into a sport.
5. The Sports Illustrated
swimsuit issue DISRESPECTS women
by imitating an idea of women that originates in pornography. Mimicking
magazines like Playboy and Penthouse, Sports Illustrated
spreads out women's bodies on the page for male "readers" to
ogle at.
4. Sports Illustrated
DISRESPECTS women
by numbing men to women's humanity.
3. Sports Illustrated
DISRESPECTS women
by exhibiting women to men as the "other"--as if women were a
different species from the "real" athletes who are men.
2. Sports Illustrated
DISRESPECTS women
by sending a message to girls and young women that no matter how much they
excel in athletics, all that matters is how they look to men.
1. The Sports Illustrated
swimsuit issue DISRESPECTS women
by directly contradicting Time-Warner's corporate hype, which claims the
magazine stands for serious sports journalism and respects the ability
and dignity of women and girls in athletics.
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