Sports Illustrated is known for the swimsuit edition and it is refreshing that this season women of a variety of shapes and sizes will be featured. The media is picking up on the fact that the public is sick and tired of seeing the same skinny figure featured in magazines.
Though this is a step in the right direction Sports Illustrated rarely features any race other than white and only able bodied women. Maybe each year will get better.
*I put "plus" in quotations because the label of "plus" is based off of American beauty standards. In reality most women are about the size of Lindsey Graham - not the usual size two that we see on the cover of Sports Illustrated.
I definitely agree that this is a step in the right direction for Sports Illustrated and the media in general. Finally, magazines such as Sports Illustrated are becoming wise to the arising issue of lack of self-esteem and body image for young women today. I applaud Sports Illustrated for taking the innovative and featuring a variety of body shapes and sizes as opposed to the classic extremely skinny girl. Although, in terms of the racial diversity, I definitely agree that we need to see more than just the typical white female featured on these covers. Hopefully magazines and the media will take this into consideration and Sports Illustrated will finally break the streak of only featuring white women.
ReplyDeleteSports Illustrated description of Lindsey Graham as a plus size model is ludicrous. Like Emily said, an average model is a size 2 while the average female is a size 12. This poses the question of why the US uses a standard of clothing where sizing starts at 0, indicating that a person that small is the norm, and that a person size 12 must be obese. It is time for Americans to reclaim the inch sizing pattern and start at 26, as opposed to the imaginary 0.
ReplyDeleteSports Illustrated description of Lindsey Graham as a plus size model is ludicrous. Like Emily said, an average model is a size 2 while the average female is a size 12. This poses the question of why the US uses a standard of clothing where sizing starts at 0, indicating that a person that small is the norm, and that a person size 12 must be obese. It is time for Americans to reclaim the inch sizing pattern and start at 26, as opposed to the imaginary 0.
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