Friday, February 17, 2017

Oh God! The Swimsuit Edition Again!

It's time for that annual celebration of near-nudity in winter: the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition. Amid a lot of hoopla this annual post-Super Bowl celebration is unveiled. And now with a sixty year old posing in swimsuits with her brown daughters. What next? Three generations of bikini wearers in the same pose?

I've complained about the sexism that is manifest in this lapse from sports. Since when has swimsuit wearing become a sport? This is nothing more than an occasion for prehistorical guys to ogle? And do other things.

And the tops and bottoms of these bikinis are often minimalist. Why should a bunch of loose girls in California and the South dictate what is fashionable and acceptable?