would like to see

[imagine2frolic]

Somehow this thread has gotten onto a very slippery slope of disgust....lolololol......i2f

[Cruisingdad]

Luckily for the rest of the world, Cam finally retired from his life of prostitution. You can now call him GrandWhammy Cammy.



- CD

[belliegirl2]

I love L and A magazine but I let my subscription die out. My wife and two daughters would raise there eyebrow everytime it came in the mail.

Not worth the trouble.

[sailingmum]

yawn

[chall03]

Originally Posted by belliegirl2

I love L and A magazine but I let my subscription die out. My wife and two daughters would raise there eyebrow everytime it came in the mail.

Not worth the trouble.

At the risk of getting my ass kicked for saying this I am going to dive in here anyway and give you my two cents, it's raining and cold here in Sydney this weekend so what the hell.....

Personally I agree with the above. I think that like it or hate it, you have to admit that basically Lats and Atts IS chauvinistic. You can call it 'catering to a male demographic' or whatever you want, but it is objectifying women......tits and ass to sell a magazine.
I hate how this is going to make me sound, but I really wouldn't want my kids growing up thinking that was ok, that this was appropriate.........thats just me and my opinion though. I am NOT morally outraged, I do still buy the magazine occasionally.

It is what it is though I guess. Being honest the first issue I ever bought I did so because there was a gorgeous teenage girl standing on the front of a boat on the cover.....so I guess what they do works but It is an attitude that is all a little bit caveman for me...

Now bring on the Sailnet special Issue with CD straddling a grill In his Borat style Mankini I say Lets do it to liberate the womenfolk, let's do it for Germaine Greer and the economy....

[Mimsy]

I hate how this is going to make me sound, but I really wouldn't want my kids growing up thinking that was ok, that this was appropriate

It makes you sound smart, evolved and intelligent in my book.
I do not get morally outraged, just tired of fighting the same old fight over and over.

Thanks Chall. If anyone tries to kick your ass, I wil protect you. I can kick ass myself and still look damn good doing it!

[sailhog]

Let's face it: Sex sells. I used to send out a picture of myself with my resume. In the photo I was wearing a pair of women's underwear hiked way way way up my butt crack. My butt is pretty hairy and covered with pimples, but that didn't seem to matter. Neither was the fact that the undies I was wearing were not "clean." Somehow I had managed to put them on inside out for the photo shoot so that an old racing stripe was visible in the picture. In any case, all of my employers seem to be interested in is skin. I'm a piece of meat to them. Even though I'm a guy, they're always making sexually suggestive comments like, "Hey, Sailhog, my wife's out of town and I'm in desperate need of a human spittoon," or "Hey, Sailhog, is that triple-A battery in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?" To be perfectly honest, these comments really hurt. They make me feel all trashy inside.

[WouldaShoulda]

I'd object, call out the publishers as sexists and declare all of womanhood beyond exploitaion...

....if I though it would get me laid!!

[miatapaul]

Originally Posted by erps

a lot of us have six pak abs under there,,,, somewhere.

I have abs created by lots of six packs, does that count?

[mightyhorton]

I'm not buying into the argument that everything has to be politically correct. I don't want the world to be run along perfectly politically correct lines. What a false sense of values, a reduction of life to the lowest common political denominator where no one's feelings ever get hurt by bumping into other points of view or realities that they personally are offended by.

It is just flat out FUN to have some mostly or entirely naked hot chicks on the bow of your boat. Who can say it isn't? Who cares if they can do celestial navigation or bleed the injectors? The cover of the magazine is fun, it's entertainment, it's light hearted. Nobody has to apologize for it or be ashamed of it. Not every magazine has to work hard to empower women. There are a lot, a whole lot, of women who love that situation and who don't want to know how to tune the rigging or fix the autopilot and who make valuable contributions to the harmony and well being of the boat.

And there is some good writing in L&A by powerful sailing women. I have absolutely no doubt that Jody kicks ass and takes her turn doing important valuable stuff on the boat. And if you criticize the hot mostly naked chics on the bow, you are jumping to conclusions, you are stereotyping them. They may have just gotten done packing the stuff box or hoisting the main.

Remember, it's Bob's magazine, he gets to do what he wants with it. He is having fun with those cover shots, they sell magazines, and he is telling the truth. It IS fun to have mostly naked hot chicks on your bow, and for most of us it is fun to have them on the cover of a good sailing magazine and sorry if it offends or disturbs a few people but we just aren't supposed to run our lives so as to avoid disturbing everybody.