Sports Illustrated - it's worse than you thought: [View all]
Take a look at the cover below? What do you see?
An OSU football player? Look again - this time use the glasses of truth and what you will see is:
1. They chose to dress up this man as an object of entertainment. They didn't use a photo of him in class studying or helping orphans from a hurricane that swooped in after an air raid from aliens. No - they turned him into a 'thing' to be consumed. They wanted an 'action' shot, to show off his athleticism - all the while ignoring the man trapped inside.
2. Do you think most people pose like that in real life? Just look out the window at people going by. They don't stand around like that - he was posed in this way to show he is working for the man (a white coach). They turned him into an action figure.
3. This pic puts pressure on others. If you want to be on SI cover you have to pimp yourself out and become a form of entertainment. They dangle free college as a carrot (we need all education to be free, then no kids would play the game anymore because that is the only reason they play ya know). All sports objectify people, turns them into a piece of entertainment - you work out all the time, get injured, battered around, and for what?
4. Number 4 on the list is about the number 5. You don't see his name on his shirt in this pic. He is a number, nothing more. The number you don't see is how many sick and twisted people go to the game or watch it on TV. Those people don't see a human with emotions and life, they see a means to an end, winning a game. They lust after winning and they stare for hours at him. People who see him on the street yell over to him, say hi to him, and other such things. The hell he must live through because of it all.
5. What you don't see is some overweight or avg built person playing worlds of warcraft or surfing the internet in their pajamas. No, that won't do. We have to make all people feel bad about themselves by showcasing folks who work out and sweat all day for a 'perfect' body to be used to entertain the rest of us. He is not human, not average, he is a piece of meat served up in the buffet sports that we consume without even thinking about it.
6. Sports -- Illustrated --. I don't see any drawings/illustrations in it. Why can't they just put stats on the cover? Because they hate people. Think about it - the people taking the photos, working at the magazine, etc don't look or dress up in football gear. Why? Because they don't want to be objects that people look at. They want to be known by name only and not have their souls captured by a device that takes photos.
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