Lindsey Vonn = Humanized by Sports Illustrated
Olympics February 5th. 2010, 5:30pm
Lindsey Vonn was featured on this week’s cover of Sports Illustrated. As you can see from the photograph, she is simulating downhill skiing. Since she is sans helmet and smiling at the camera, someone decided she was being sexualized. That someone was Dr. Nicole M. LaVoi. Her original post was reposted on Women Talk Sports.
Over the last 60 years researchers have shown that about 4% of all SI covers have portrayed women.
When females are featured on the cover of SI, they are more likely than not to be in sexualized poses and not in action–and the most recent Vonn cover is no exception
Honestly, I’m not picking up Sports Illustrated’s Winter Olympic Preview no matter who is on the cover or what they’re doing. So there’s that. And then there’s the question of what kind of sexual pose is that supposed to be? I’ve been scouring Red Tube for hours and I can’t find it.
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February 5th, 2010 at 5:34 PM
On Animal Planet they would called that pose “presenting”.
February 5th, 2010 at 5:34 PM
Well obviously this lesbian complaining about it will make the world a better place for everyone! And more enjoyable, too!
February 5th, 2010 at 5:35 PM
spread them ass cheeks like a hot dinner roll
/yelnik’d
February 5th, 2010 at 5:38 PM
Did yelnik just post on here that one time and become a TBL meme?
February 5th, 2010 at 5:40 PM
hah nicely done
February 5th, 2010 at 5:41 PM
yelnik made a masturbatory appearance just yesterday and as he would know getting your dick into something with its legs pressed together like that would be a nearly Herculean effort.
February 5th, 2010 at 5:41 PM
he said he wouldnt mind ejaculating in someones asshole the other day
February 5th, 2010 at 5:42 PM
what post was that? The alba/TBL picture post?
February 5th, 2010 at 5:43 PM
let me find out. it was an am roundup
February 5th, 2010 at 5:47 PM
89
February 5th, 2010 at 5:50 PM
jesus haha. And in a Katy Perry defense no less.
February 5th, 2010 at 5:54 PM
They decided not to go with the three-finger spread version, so I dunno what the doc is complaining about.
February 5th, 2010 at 5:56 PM
She’s an awesome skiier. Julia Mancuso is super hot also. I hope that TBL really devotes some time to the Winter Olympics instead of horseshit NBA basketball.
“ooooh look, I can walk up and down the floor taking 15 ‘crab-dribble’ steps between dribbles and I can dunk without jumping.” Yea, they’re real “Athletes”.
/angry colts guy
February 5th, 2010 at 6:06 PM
Hey Bengals Fans!
February 5th, 2010 at 6:08 PM
get your popcorn ready
February 5th, 2010 at 6:10 PM
sunday cant come soon enough
February 5th, 2010 at 6:24 PM
Not enough footballs on the fuckin planet.
February 5th, 2010 at 6:36 PM
On Animal Planet they would called that pose “presenting”.
Very nice.
February 5th, 2010 at 6:40 PM
I hate to side with the PC police, but the first thing I thought of when I saw this cover on my coffee table was along the lines of comment #1.
And who is this yelnik character?
February 5th, 2010 at 6:49 PM
I implore Dr. LaVoi to feast on it.
February 5th, 2010 at 6:57 PM
I hate to side with the PC police, but the first thing I thought of when I saw this cover on my coffee table was along the lines of comment #1.
I agree, but I’m only having those thoughts because she’s attractive. The good doctor who wrote that piece seems to be upset with the cover because she’s good looking. If she wasn’t, the cover wouldn’t make us have those yelnik thoughts. Doesn’t matter what she’s doing, she’s good looking.
February 5th, 2010 at 7:03 PM
How pissed was duffy that CRM got to write this post?
February 5th, 2010 at 7:04 PM
How f’ing short would you have to be to screw her in that position? Jeremy Piven short? E on Entourage short?
February 5th, 2010 at 7:06 PM
I’m 6′3 and i’m thinking somehow i would find a way.
February 5th, 2010 at 7:09 PM
It’s all in the hips, it’s all in the hips, it’s all in the hips…
/Chubbs’d
February 5th, 2010 at 7:09 PM
I guess I’d let her shit on my chest in that position…
//yelnick’d
February 5th, 2010 at 7:11 PM
It’s all in the hips, it’s all in the hips, it’s all in the hips…
/Chubbs’d
Hahaha, that scene never fails to crack me up
February 5th, 2010 at 7:21 PM
hes a legend. enough said.
February 5th, 2010 at 7:28 PM
And who is this yelnik character?
I remember the legend of yelnik. He got admonished one day for making some ridiculous masturbation reference, and then the very next day he got masturbationally nostalgic about a figure skater or ice dancer. He wistfully remembered pulling his pud during the 88 olympics to a certain somebody.
Then everybody gave him the business, and he went back to simply lurking (and presumably jerking). Recently, he’s come back, and seems OK with the characterization.
February 5th, 2010 at 7:30 PM
also, I get the impression that Lindsey Vonn has one gigantic forehead. She is always wearing a big fat headband.
February 5th, 2010 at 7:36 PM
i got a chub right now
/yelnik
February 5th, 2010 at 7:37 PM
Big, like Tyra Banks big, or big like Rocky Dennis big?
February 5th, 2010 at 7:43 PM
LOLz
February 5th, 2010 at 7:49 PM
The who’s who of TBL commenters is gonna make a great book someday.
/no it won’t
February 5th, 2010 at 7:55 PM
http://i.imgur.com/zIQIt.gif
February 5th, 2010 at 7:58 PM
How else is she supposed to pose? That’s how she looks going down the hill except sans helmet…and what’s the point of hyping someone if you’re going to obscure her face?
As for the lack of women’s covers…well, people don’t give a fuck about the WNBA or any other women’s sport except Olympics and World cup. It’d be like a male studies professor complaining about Cosmo or Vanity Fair not have men on the cover.
The lady missed her spot…she needed to wait 1 more week before rolling out her screed.
/swimsuit edition’d
February 5th, 2010 at 8:02 PM
Supposedly, he was reading Twilight to the class, at least that was the caption the first time I saw that. If that’s the case, he deserved several more backpacks.
February 5th, 2010 at 8:03 PM
Although I love it when or if Sharapova makes the cover. I would do terrible things.
February 5th, 2010 at 8:51 PM
Yelnik’s comments stand and Team America gets deleted. Where is this world going?
February 5th, 2010 at 9:48 PM
Not a whole lot going on here tonight. And the morning roundup had so much promise.
February 5th, 2010 at 10:18 PM
Tom Selleck.
February 5th, 2010 at 10:45 PM
Everybody is being corny. It’s actually made me get all my work done tonight. What the hell is with that?
These guys bettr finish early, cuz they don’t know how to plow here in Philly to save their lives, and I’d like to be able to drive home after work. Sadly, the Purple Haze doesn’t have enough ground clearance for much snow.
February 5th, 2010 at 11:01 PM
Semi-met Russell Robinson tonight. Me > you.
February 5th, 2010 at 11:09 PM
i have met and shook Mike Singletary’s hand…me > you
February 6th, 2010 at 12:48 AM
I met /shook hands with Godfrey myles yesterday in downtown west palm. So me > you
/ cowboys homer’d
February 6th, 2010 at 1:26 AM
Hell yeah, Godfrey Miles was such an underrated player on the early ’90s Florida teams. I have so much respect for the guy because he helped build the program here. I’ll never forget the ‘91 Tennessee and Alabama games. He’ll always have a soft spot in my heart.
/Drunk but sincere
February 6th, 2010 at 2:55 AM
afro puffs
February 6th, 2010 at 3:23 PM
Over the last 60 years researchers have shown that� about 4% of all SI covers have portrayed women.
Hate to tell ya, but only about 4% of women in sports were worth watching in the past 60 years. … Do you prefer the NFL or Pop Warner?
February 6th, 2010 at 3:57 PM
Unbuckle-Toss-Squirt…….REPEAT