After reading Ebony's post on the Scotty Largo's “risky” photos. I thought I would post another blog that dealt with the Olympics and “risky” pictures. Early this month the cover of Sports Illustrated's Winter Olympics preview, February 8, issue featured the American alpine skier Lindsey Vonn. Vonn ‘s pose resembled the exaggerated tuck stance skiers take when barreling down a hill. The cover also had the headline “America’s best woman skier ever.”
Many feminists are claiming Vonn’s pose on the Sports’ Illustrated cover are provocative and portrays Vonn as a sex symbol versus an athlete. An expert in sports psychology and women in sports, Nicole M. Lavoi wrote in her blog,“ That it is bad enough that women rarely appear on the magazine’s cover. When females are featured on the cover of SI, they are more likely than not to be in sexualized poses and not in action-and the most recent Vonn cover is not exception.”
I’ll let you be the judge.
http://www.chicagobreakingsports.com/2010/02/lindsey-vonn-sports-illustrated-cover-gets-chilly-reception.html
1 comment:
I see both sides of the story. One part of me says two steps forward, three steps back as being a female that has made it to the Olympics and is a role model for many. On the other hand, sex sells, and since she is fully clothed and in a ski stance, I guess I've seen worse covers. Its almost more funny and humiliating than sexy.
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