The SI Swimsuit issue and Title 9 - I was wondering why the

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3. Isn't most of the shitstorm about it being posted in GD?

I've never saw a "Here's the new Cosmo cover" thread, but I take long breaks between posting. So I wouldn't know.

As to the objections to SI itself, I think you pretty much hit the nail on the head. As others have pointed out in other threads, there are some few SI covers that deal with women as athletes as opposed to simply using them as marketing bait. My impression is that they're still far away from (some sort of) parity in their portrayal of people of different genders, but the argument that there is some gradual change in the right direction seems reasonable to me.