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Speaking of the Olympics, anyone subscribe to...
Pl@yboy? Or pick up a copy of the September issue?
Not that I know, but, I, uh, heard that they have an Olympic spread. HOTNESS!!
Not that I know, but, I, uh, heard that they have an Olympic spread. HOTNESS!!
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Last month's Maxim has olympians in it. Not that impressive. I need *****. Big, perkey, squishy, home-grown fun bags. Athlete's just don't have 'em. Their cute, but they need the dirty pillows to make them truely hot and spank-able. Meow.
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Originally posted by dzervit
Last month's Maxim has olympians in it. Not that impressive. I need *****. Big, perkey, squishy, home-grown fun bags. Athlete's just don't have 'em. Their cute, but they need the dirty pillows to make them truely hot and spank-able. Meow.
Last month's Maxim has olympians in it. Not that impressive. I need *****. Big, perkey, squishy, home-grown fun bags. Athlete's just don't have 'em. Their cute, but they need the dirty pillows to make them truely hot and spank-able. Meow.
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Those can be added aftermarket you know...
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Cheap shots strip athletes' dignity
August 18, 2004
BY CINDY RICHARDS
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How about those Olympians? Going for the gold, pushing themselves to the limits of human endurance, stripping for the camera.
Wait. Scratch that last bit. It doesn't apply to all Olympians. Just a couple of them. Who happen to be female.
Volleyballer Logan Tom, track stars Amy Acuff and Jenny Adams and swimmers Amanda Beard and Haley Cope appear in various stages of undress in magazines this month. They say it's because they're proud of their bodies.
They should be. They've worked very hard to get those buns of steel. Why would they undermine that hard work for a few bucks? Why wouldn't they insist on being seen as who they are: incredibly strong and accomplished women?
The sad fact is they are doing this because this still is what's offered to female athletes. Michael Phelps is asked to swim for the cameras; these women are asked to strip for them.
The juvenile, soft-**** FHM has the Olympic women -- or ''Golden Girls'' -- in skimpy clothing accompanied by come-hither looks and interviews revealing what kind of underwear they like.
Playboy, meanwhile, takes female athletes from around the world, strips them naked, then poses them doing their thing in a starting block or ready to pole vault. The interviews ask: Would you rather have a gold medal or a world record? What's your best long-jump tip?
Both magazines offer other sports stories, accompanied by photos of men. Skateboarder Bob Burnquist and football players such as Brian Urlacher and Junior Seau appear in FHM in their uniforms and talking about their athleticism.
In Playboy, college football players are pictured wearing their college T-shirts and bored expressions. Philadelphia Eagle Terrell Owens is pictured naked, but the photo is cropped at chest level and his expression would never be mistaken for a come-hither look.
Mary Jo Kane is a sociologist who has been studying the media's portrayal of women athletes for 20 years. Like me, she questions why these amazing athletes would agree to these degrading pictorials.
''You don't need to strip to show how strong you are,'' she said. ''What muscle group do bare breasts belong to?''
Kane is director of the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport at the University of Minnesota. She has spent the last 15 years analyzing the media guides published by collegiate athletic programs. Ironically, this photo flap comes just as she is poring over data that show some real advances in the way female college athletes are portrayed.
Back in 1990, she found that if women were pictured on the cover of a media guide, chances were they would be photographed wearing a cute dress, with big hair and big makeup -- what Kane calls the ''sorority shot.'' Her latest study, of the 2004 media guides published by 276 sports programs, shows that 97 percent of them pictured a woman athlete in uniform on the cover. And 73 percent of the time, the women were photographed doing what they do best: running faster, jumping higher, and hitting harder.
Will the cheesecake photos that have gotten more press than some of the athletes set back the clock?
Hard to say. But they do make it harder to take the women seriously as athletes. Even their peers get that. My favorite college student and former athlete, Annie Lewandowski, 21, of Downers Grove, said: ''Even if one of them won a gold medal, I'd be thinking, 'But she posed for Playboy.' ''
The good news is that female athletes are making strides everywhere -- 46 percent of the events in Athens are open to women, up from just 21 percent in 1972. And they're getting more media coverage than ever. But success breeds backlash.
''The stakes have increased and, as women have made gains, they have taken her out of the sorority and put her in the strip club,'' Kane said. ''The pattern that has emerged in the last few years is they are portrayed in ways that bear an alarming resemblance to soft pornography.''
It's amazing the athletes think these photographs celebrate their strength and power when, in reality, they take their power away.
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I don't know about the rest of you but I myself feel terrible for contributing to the degredation of these poor women. Shame on us.
I'll bet the chick that wrote this is fugly like you wouldn't believe, sounds a little jealous and catty to me.
Cheap shots strip athletes' dignity
August 18, 2004
BY CINDY RICHARDS
Advertisement
How about those Olympians? Going for the gold, pushing themselves to the limits of human endurance, stripping for the camera.
Wait. Scratch that last bit. It doesn't apply to all Olympians. Just a couple of them. Who happen to be female.
Volleyballer Logan Tom, track stars Amy Acuff and Jenny Adams and swimmers Amanda Beard and Haley Cope appear in various stages of undress in magazines this month. They say it's because they're proud of their bodies.
They should be. They've worked very hard to get those buns of steel. Why would they undermine that hard work for a few bucks? Why wouldn't they insist on being seen as who they are: incredibly strong and accomplished women?
The sad fact is they are doing this because this still is what's offered to female athletes. Michael Phelps is asked to swim for the cameras; these women are asked to strip for them.
The juvenile, soft-**** FHM has the Olympic women -- or ''Golden Girls'' -- in skimpy clothing accompanied by come-hither looks and interviews revealing what kind of underwear they like.
Playboy, meanwhile, takes female athletes from around the world, strips them naked, then poses them doing their thing in a starting block or ready to pole vault. The interviews ask: Would you rather have a gold medal or a world record? What's your best long-jump tip?
Both magazines offer other sports stories, accompanied by photos of men. Skateboarder Bob Burnquist and football players such as Brian Urlacher and Junior Seau appear in FHM in their uniforms and talking about their athleticism.
In Playboy, college football players are pictured wearing their college T-shirts and bored expressions. Philadelphia Eagle Terrell Owens is pictured naked, but the photo is cropped at chest level and his expression would never be mistaken for a come-hither look.
Mary Jo Kane is a sociologist who has been studying the media's portrayal of women athletes for 20 years. Like me, she questions why these amazing athletes would agree to these degrading pictorials.
''You don't need to strip to show how strong you are,'' she said. ''What muscle group do bare breasts belong to?''
Kane is director of the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport at the University of Minnesota. She has spent the last 15 years analyzing the media guides published by collegiate athletic programs. Ironically, this photo flap comes just as she is poring over data that show some real advances in the way female college athletes are portrayed.
Back in 1990, she found that if women were pictured on the cover of a media guide, chances were they would be photographed wearing a cute dress, with big hair and big makeup -- what Kane calls the ''sorority shot.'' Her latest study, of the 2004 media guides published by 276 sports programs, shows that 97 percent of them pictured a woman athlete in uniform on the cover. And 73 percent of the time, the women were photographed doing what they do best: running faster, jumping higher, and hitting harder.
Will the cheesecake photos that have gotten more press than some of the athletes set back the clock?
Hard to say. But they do make it harder to take the women seriously as athletes. Even their peers get that. My favorite college student and former athlete, Annie Lewandowski, 21, of Downers Grove, said: ''Even if one of them won a gold medal, I'd be thinking, 'But she posed for Playboy.' ''
The good news is that female athletes are making strides everywhere -- 46 percent of the events in Athens are open to women, up from just 21 percent in 1972. And they're getting more media coverage than ever. But success breeds backlash.
''The stakes have increased and, as women have made gains, they have taken her out of the sorority and put her in the strip club,'' Kane said. ''The pattern that has emerged in the last few years is they are portrayed in ways that bear an alarming resemblance to soft pornography.''
It's amazing the athletes think these photographs celebrate their strength and power when, in reality, they take their power away.
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I don't know about the rest of you but I myself feel terrible for contributing to the degredation of these poor women. Shame on us.
I'll bet the chick that wrote this is fugly like you wouldn't believe, sounds a little jealous and catty to me.
