Miss Piggy's Grocery Store Checkout Headlines

[NynJa]

Yeah, I don't know why a sports magazine would talk about a gold-medal winning Olympic athlete.

They can talk about her without the associated expected photography.

[Lyall]

I don't feel strongly one way or the other but it seems odd timing. Jenner's heroic, so-brave story was told how many months ago? Won gold how many years ago?

Sounds like a publicity stunt, which isn't a bad thing since, you know, they're trying to make money.

[archibaldcrane]

They can talk about her without the associated expected photography.

But then it wouldn't be Sports Illustrated.

It would be, uh, Sports.

[dasva]

Yeah, I don't know why a sports magazine would talk about a gold-medal winning Olympic athlete.

Pretty sure everyone realizes they aren't doing this to celebrate the gold-medal winning Bruce Jenner from decades ago but to instead celebrate the trans ex athlete Caitlyn

[TheDirtyHobo]

Yeah, I don't know why a sports magazine would talk about a gold-medal winning Olympic athlete.

Which events did Caitlyn Jenner get a gold medal in again?

The problem is there is no reason for them to talk about it so they grasp at pretty extreme straws to pretend there's a reason. I don't think SI readers are dumb enough to not realize this.

[archibaldcrane]

The decathlon - meaning she was the greatest athlete in the world at one time.

I know we on BG are too young to know about when Jenner was a big fucking deal, but she was.

It's not like there's, ya know, any other famous pro athletes who are trans, and the fact that she was the greatest male athlete in the world at one time makes her trans status significantly more impactful.

[Vaspinne]

People still read magazines?

[zoobernut]

People still read magazines?

This question is exactly why they are doing something like this. Creating controversy in an attempt to resurrect a dying format.

[dasva]

People still read magazines?

I still got some old GamePro mags somewhere I think. The Lamepro parts are still amusing sad they stopped doing them

[Modoru]

I buy photoshop mags every now and then. It's hard to find high quality reference materials for designer stuff sometimes, and the Imagine publishing line is pretty good.

[Xno Kappa]

I still got some old GamePro mags somewhere I think. The Lamepro parts are still amusing sad they stopped doing them

Never forget the days of going to stores and reading/ripping the cheat parts off those magazines lol. GamePro and EGM were the biggest ones back in the day iirc.

[Yuri-G]

I love when people say "protip" and I'm like "you don't even know where that came from..."

[Cantih]

All about GamePlayers and PSM, with Adam Warren popping in all the damned time to do covers and splash pages.

[Anoat]

I was a fan of Nintendo Power. In the days before the Internet, it was the only way I found out about all the cool new SNES and later, N64 games.

[Ksandra]

I learned today 50 cent recently had $100k.

[Eticket]

People still read magazines?

I won't lie. I still subscribe to Game Informer.

[mallister]

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2016/05/0...school-police/

[Blubbartron]

Sigh. Such sexist bullshit. "We want our young men to know this is not an appropriate way to treat women." Do these motherfuckers even realize that women enjoy sex and feeling attractive too? They even acknowledge that a lot of the photos are selfies, obviously taken for the purpose of sexting, but they're going to try to "uplift" the girls and berate the boys, because clearly it's ultimately their fault or some shit.

[archibaldcrane]

Isn't the point that it's not appropriate to collect and pass around these photos to others when presumably they are sent for private viewing?

(and of course the underage porn aspect)

[jacobs67]

"Ivy League economist interrogated for doing math on American Airlines flight" Math is scary terrorism now apparently, could people in this country get any more paranoid? Terrorism hysteria should be considered a psychological condition in the DSM-V by now

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...rlines-flight/