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...want to go back on the road." Carlos Bautista, whose family, when not being catapulted off a teeterboard, performs, according to the alliterative program, as "jaunty juggling juggernauts displaying dazzling dexterity": "This is what my father taught me to do. This is what I do." Bautista's daughter Patricia: "Si...
Jeff Zucker's piece in defense of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue was a depressing statement of an all too common position on sexism in American society. Excusing SI because "they've just given us what we asked for" expressed a resignation that cannot remain unopposed. Those of us who care about equality cannot condone a mass media that perpetuates the attitudes of a sexist society...
...trying to pick on SI. I'm fully aware that the magazine is neither the only nor the worst example of sexism in society. Swimsuits are fine if worn by both sexes. I'm not trying to pick on people who read SI. Everyone can read (or look at) whatever they so choose. I agree with Melissa Weissberg's belief that the entire debate says very little about the real issues involved ("Not Saying Much," Feb. 13). But the bottom line--that society discriminates against women culturally, socially, economically, and politically and that the media conditions people--is something that...
...PICK on SI?" asks Mr. Zucker...
...agree. We shouldn't "pick on" SI when there are many more worthwhile objects of accusation, anger, and debate. But to say that Sports Illustrated and its 20-year-old annual swimsuit issue are somehow outside the realm of scrutiny is absurd...