Sports Illustrated went woke; now must lay off staff

As Sports Illustrated, a former sports magazine, has continued to go further and further left, people who used to subscribe to it, primarily men, have decided to forgo their subscriptions. The once celebrated magazine, particularly for the famous "Swimsuit Edition," has laid off most of its staff on Friday. 

It's doubtful SI will make a big comeback, if any comeback at all, proving the "go woke, go broke" adage.

Most of the staff, and possibly all the remaining editors and writers, got layoff notices Friday. Without writers and editors it's difficult to put out a magazine that depends on not only on photos, but on words. It's called journalism. 

The union of the staff tweeted Friday that it would continue to fight for the publication of the magazine but that its future is now in the hands of the magazine’s owner, Authentic Brands Group.

“This is another difficult day in what has been a difficult four years for Sports Illustrated under Arena Group (previously The Maven) stewardship," the union said in a statement. "We are calling on ABG to ensure the continued publication of SI and allow it to serve our audience in the way it has for nearly 70 years.”

Sorry, the union doesn't get to dictate that a company that's going belly up to continue losing money so they can get paid. 

The overwhelming audience of SI has always been men who identify as men. There was a time when the SI Swimsuit edition was in practically every guy's bedroom or office drawer. However, since the magazine has gone woke, and began using obese women for their Swimsuit Edition, men who identify as men, have refused to indulge in the magazine's beefed-up edition or to buy the issue with the "transgender model," after they decided to showcase that in their 2020 issue.

In 2023, SI went even further, putting another [transgender] man, who calls himself Kim Petras, and who was dressed as a woman, on the cover.

Sports Illustrated magazine features Transgender singer Kim Petras on the cover of the Swimsuit 2023 edition 👙 pic.twitter.com/eMy53FcOJV— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) May 16, 2023

Less than a year after the transgender push, the mag rag is facing a possible financial ruin.

Screw them for their wokeness and their attempts to shove their bizarre mores in our face.

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Dr. Jordan Peterson blasts Sports Illustrated over obese covergirl swimsuit issue

Dr. Jordan Peterson responded on Twitter to a New York Post headline about Sports Illustrated's 2022 Swimsuit Issue featuring an obese woman model named Yumi Nu as its covergirl.

Sorry. Not beautiful. And no amount of authoritarian tolerance is going to change that. https://t.co/rOASeeQvee

— Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson)

Admittedly, Nu has a pretty face, albeit somewhat large. But to put overweight women in the annual Swimsuit edition and virtue signal how woke they are, SI has made young men throughout the land quite distraught.

Peterson voiced his objection in response to a Twitter user whose entire life centers around finding something to criticize online. Peterson responded to the loser thusly:

It's a conscious progressive attempt to manipulate & retool the notion of beauty, reliant on the idiot philosophy that such preferences are learned & properly changed by those who know better (see https://t.co/RLOu4wlNM6)(https://t.co/tUzihxdXOl) but don't let the facts stop you. https://t.co/90uEnV6DL3

— Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) May 16, 2022

The links in his tweet are two studies: the first from a 1998 study in Infant Behavior and Development showing that babies focus on faces judged to be more attractive by adults. In the second 2009 study published in Evolution and Human Behavior, it found that more attractive women had more children than less attractive ones, such as overweight women and men who identify as women, and the least attractive men sired fewer children than every other group of men, who had about the same number of children. This may indicate that physical attractiveness may be related to reproductive success rates.

Peterson was responding to a New York Post interview with Nu, who will be one of the covergirls on the 2022 Swimsuit Issue as will Kim Kardashian, singer Ciara, and Maye Musk, Elon's mom.

The 25-year-old Nu is of Dutch and Japanese ancestry and is the granddaughter of Rocky Aoki the Benihana chain of restaurants founder. Perhaps Nu spent a lot of time testing the product as a child.

In the interview, Nu spoke of her excitement at the opportunity to be on the cover of a men's sports magazine and described herself as a champion of body and race diversity, a subliminal way of saying that she's fat, not white, and proud of it.

She was not asked about her overall health such as blood pressure, diabetes situation, and her ability to walk without getting out of breath. She did, however, express her delight over being chosen to represent the sports magazine's new take on their definition of beauty.

“It’s amazing. I’m on cloud nine,” she told the Post. “This is nothing I could prepare for. It’s unexpected. I feel like we’re in a place right now where people are making space for more diversity on magazine covers. It’s a big time for Asian-American people in media. I know I play a big role in representation in body diversity and race diversity, and I love to be a role model and representative of the plus-size Asian community.”

Let's consider her comments:

Nu said that being chosen is nothing she could prepare for, but that isn't completely true. Nu has spent 25 years preparing, but she was unaware that her eating habits were going to put her on a sports magazine cover. Sure, it may have been unexpected, but that was before the world got woke. 

The magazine also includes a number of race and body diversity firsts: the first breast cancer survivor; the first indigenous woman, a NASA physicist; a woman showing her C-section scar; a woman with four belly buttons; a woman with eczema; and a woman with a penis.

In terms of diversity, the concept is a load of bull plop.

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Why doesn't Sports Illustrated have people like Brian Stelter and Michael Moore on the Swimsuit Edition? You want diverse, that would really be diverse and show the world that a woman can be anything, except if you're a biologist and know the truth.

The Left ruins everything.

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NFL: Injury riddled Lions decide Kaepernick still sucks as potential QB

Some heroes rush into burning buildings and rescue others; some rush into battle for their country at risk of life and limb; others take a knee during their national anthem and pretend they are brave. Former NFL quarterback, Colin Kaepernick was never a fireman nor a soldier, but he did take a knee and Nike made him a rich, unemployed, mediocre quarterback.

When Detroit Lions Jeff Driskel got placed on injured reserve and their starter, Matthew Stafford out four consecutive games with a fractured back, the team needed to find another QB to fill in for the floundering team. Instead of tapping Kaepernick on the shoulder, they decided to add two new guys to their roster, none of whom was the millionaire victim of the "man."

It isn't as if the team had no idea just how talented Kaepernick is--they were one of the eight teams that sent reps to attend his last minute rescheduled workout. They saw a less than mediocre quarterback with an ego that went well beyond his talent, and decided to sign Kyle Sloter, 25, and Joe Callahan, 26, and place them both on their practice squad.

Undrafted rookie David Blough debuted as the Lions’ quarterback on Thanksgiving Day and threw for 280 yards and two touchdowns.

After the has-been Kaepernick’s workout for prospective employers, sports business analyst Andrew Brandt wrote in Sports Illustrated, “I have been around the NFL — as an agent, team executive and analyst — for close to 30 years and have never seen the league set up an individual player workout. Teams and agents set up workouts; the NFL does not set up workouts. This was unprecedented.”

Perhaps the NFL was afraid of being labeled racist by Kaepernick.

The big haired Kaepernick isn't just a suckworthy QB, he is also a crap load of trouble and there aren't too many teams willing to put up with trouble when it comes in a package of mediocrity. 

Kaepernick's knowledge of American history is also mediocre. On November 28th, he accused the United States of having "stolen" billions of acres of land from "Indigenous people."

He tweeted:

“Spent the morning at the Indigenous People’s Sunrise Ceremony on the 50 year anniversary of the Occupation of Alcatraz. The US government has stolen over 1.5 billion acres of land from Indigenous people. Thank you to my Indigenous family, I’m with you today and always.”

Now the American settlers were not perfect, nobody is. But all throughout history, land confiscations have taken place among all cultures. It's only the United States the left hates and blames for it, as if the spoils of war never existed. 

It's similar to Kaepernick's take on slavery where he acts as if America was the only slave nation that ever existed. But let's be clear: America is the only nation that fought a war to end slavery and the rights of all minorities are the same. After all, Kaepernick was once a good quarterback and made a ton of money while being black.

But leftists and terrorists love to play the victim . . . but I repeat myself.

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