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The Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue is always one of the magazine’s most controversial. SI tackles those claims head-on by publishing complaints, allowing subscribers to skip it and in recent years moving toward the inclusion of female athletes to show bodies come in all (incredible) sizes.
Four soccer members of the United States Women’s National Team posed for the 2019 swimsuit issue, including veteran Megan Rapinoe, who is the first openly gay woman to appear in the swimsuit edition.
Why is this news? Everybody everywhere is gay. According to all the magazines. Don't LGBT find this degrading? Like ... we need to get gays on the cover! Let's find a good one! Kinda insulting / pandering at this point. "All my best friends are gay ... "
I also wonder about the "openly" part. If a married hetero women doesn't tell anyone she is married and doesn't wear a ring, is she a closeted wife? What does she need to do to be "openly hetero/married"? Is there a playbook of some kind that Sports Illustrated has published to answer these questions?
The openly gay thing is whatever, but Rapinoe is ripped and looks good as hell in a bikini. Lots of openly gay women in the world, and SI chose the one who looks badass in very little clothing. Gay is incidental and superfluous in this case, and athleticism and aesthetics are the point.
She is (like all full time soccer players) in ridiculously good shape, and SI tends to only go with women in ridiculously good shape to take skimpy bikini pics of. WGAFF if she's gay or not? Appreciate someone in better shape than 99.9999% of the population, appreciate the art and the aesthetic, leave the politics at the door.
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guess they're trying to increase their readership
