12-year-old boys of all ages are going to continue to be disappointed

go, team!

Following up on its move to start featuring beached whales in its annual swimsuit issue, Sports Illustrated has chosen to use the lesbians of the WNBA* as its models this year, spiced with a huge dollop of wokeness.

I’m not 12, and haven’t been since I was 12, so this is not particularly concerning news, but I do wonder whether SI is teaming up with Target, which has just announced its own new line of transgender swimwear, including chest-binders and “packers”. Which, in turn, reminds me of the joke about the Polish guy at the beach, a Speedo, and his friend’s advice to slip a potato in his suit to impress the girls, but this is a family blog, so …

Sports Illustrated, 2020