Top 10 Ways Sports Illustrated Disrespects Women

By: American Decency Staff

The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition again hit the magazine racks in recent days. Tomorrow ADA's Lisa VanHouten will give her take on this years travesty.

In addition, we will provide a take action list which will include a list of the advertisers who chose to place advertisements in this years SI Swimsuit Edition.

In the meantime, we have provided the following: Top 10 Ways Sports Illustrated Disrespects Women

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Top 10 Ways Sports Illustrated Disrespects Women

Sports Illustrated DISRESPECTS women through sex-discriminatory coverage of women’s sports. (Fewer than 10 percent of Sports Illustrated pages are devoted to women’s athletic achievements.)

8. The Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue DISRESPECTS women by showing women’s primary value to be their value as sex objects.

6. Sports Illustrated DISRESPECTS women by encouraging boys and young men to view women as sex toys and by turning voyeurism into a sport.

4. Sports Illustrated DISRESPECTS women by numbing men to women’s humanity.

2. Sports Illustrated DISRESPECTS women by sending a message to girls and young women that no matter how much they excel in athletics, all that matters is how they look to men.

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