SI Swimsuit Issue

Jeff Hearn, author of “The Swimsuit Issue and Sport: Hegemonic Masculinity in Sports Illustrated”, discusses that the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue remains to be very successful and profitable for reasoning the basis of the issue on the ideal sexual appeal of a woman. Although the women are presented in this manner, it is what happens throughout the magazine and behind the scenes that gives proof to the fact that the is

Another view that looks at the issue on a completely different level is the one of Kevin Young from “Gender and Society”. Young’s main point is that the swimsuit issue exploits women and doesn’t show a good quality of coverage and also portrays female athletes in a dark light. Sports Illustrated’s swimsuit edition puts a focus on the female body and not the female in the world of sports. It takes away from everything that the women athletes have worked to achieve. Sports Illustrated normally highlights the physical ability of women athletes and women in sports. This helps the magazine to have a greater appeal to a broader audience of women, but one issue a year degrades women athletes by placing models in as their woman focus for the issue. Although this point is strongly made by Young, I disagree. I feel this way because even though the magazine does have a greater appeal to women most of the time, Sports Illustrated overall ha

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