Sports Illustrated - it's worse than you thought:

[The Straight Story]

53. Wait...what??

"The image of vulnerability suggests that if they're threatened by a male predator, they would do well to have another male nearby to protect them "

Yes indeed. Like linemen and such. Ohhhh you were talking about the women in SI? Anyone else here look at that and think they needed protection? That sounds like benevolent sexism to me (I didn't think for a second they looked like they needed anything - but yeah, the QB of the Buckeyes needs it - as is evident from their last two losses of the year).

Are you equating power with his physical fitness? If that is the case those three ladies seemed pretty fit to me. And they seemed to have enough power amongst them to cause a storm on DU all because they chose to get paid in a career called modeling.

"I think you'd have to be contrasting images of male and female athletes,"

Before I posted this I looked over many SI issues - and there were several women on the cover. One was a skier - she was wearing a skin tight outfit, which she wears on the slopes. Could have posted that but it was a woman who many might consider pretty and she was wearing, as this guy was, what she does to 'work'. It would have been a similar feeding frenzy though to the other thread because she was not fully covered in a burka.