{"id":14725,"date":"2009-10-23T10:44:32","date_gmt":"2009-10-23T15:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=14725"},"modified":"2012-10-14T01:50:41","modified_gmt":"2012-10-14T06:50:41","slug":"serena-williams-on-the-cover-of-espn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/10\/23\/serena-williams-on-the-cover-of-espn\/","title":{"rendered":"Serena Williams on the Cover of ESPN"},"content":{"rendered":"

Serena Williams is on the cover of ESPN this month, as Becky T. pointed out. And Becky is torn. I’d like to put it up for discussion.<\/p>\n

The cover:<\/p>\n

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So, on the one hand: \u00a0 Dude. Why is it that a woman rarely makes it onto the cover of ESPN and, when she does, she’s freakin’ naked? And, of course (*sarcasm*), it’s for “The Body Issue” (because women’s bodies are where it’s at, right fellas?). I did a google image search<\/a> for “espn cover” and the first page of results includes only two women. One is naked (Williams) and the other is pregnant<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On the other hand:\u00a0 The cover doesn’t appear to be trying to hide or diminish Williams’ strength.\u00a0 The girl is STRONG.\u00a0 Check out that bicep!\u00a0 Part of me wants to say that she looks good.\u00a0 DAMN good.<\/p>\n

What do you think?<\/p>\n

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Lisa Wade is a\u00a0professor of sociology at Occidental College<\/a>. You can follow her on\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Serena Williams is on the cover of ESPN this month, as Becky T. pointed out. And Becky is torn. I’d like to put it up for discussion. The cover: So, on the one hand: \u00a0 Dude. Why is it that a woman rarely makes it onto the cover of ESPN and, when she does, she’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[218,55,2103,778,108],"class_list":["post-14725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bodies","tag-gender","tag-gender-bodies","tag-intersectionality","tag-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14725"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14731,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14725\/revisions\/14731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}