How it started. How it's going.

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[–]NastyWetSmear 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

So the men buying swimsuit magazines didn't want to see a man in a bikini?... Well that's strange. Who could have predicted that?

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

A marketing team. Oh wait. They have humanities degrees don't they.

[–]NastyWetSmear 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Ohhh, true. If only they had years and years of data showing what their customers liked. It's really too bad. Just one of those unstoppable, unpredictable things. :(

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah but you know the customers are all a bunch of cis het white males. We'll show them.

[–]Femaleisnthateful 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Is there any evidence that SIs demise is due to their pushing trans on their readership? I don't actually read the magazine, not being part of the target demographic, so I can't comment.

That said, I think of someone like Kim Petras or Jazz Jennings as a castrati male, and also a child abuse victim, since they were both children when their 'sex-change' interventions were begun.

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I'd assume that magazine sales are down across the board due to a number of factors but essentially will boil down to the internet filling the niche of what magazines used to fill. Be some place for good magazines going forward I think but your quality will have to be top notch. Sports illustrated for example, why pay to get the swimsuit edition when I can just google search and get more women in swimsuits than I could ever want for free.

Putting a trans-women on the cover or other woke pandaring is likely a desperate hail Mary to try to gain relivence when the writing is on the wall in terms of their future sales numbers, granted I think it likely hastens that demise by alienating their dwindling customer base faster.

[–]HiddenFox 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

granted I think it likely hastens that demise by alienating their dwindling customer base faster.

I agree. People who buy the SI swimsuit edition are buying to look at females in swimsuits. No matter how much push there is, a large portion of males will never accept males who transition to females and are trying to sexually entice them.
In fact I think it will offend and even anger them.

[–]HiddenFox 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

When its' phrased like this it's pretty funny.

[–]OuroborosTheory 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

also that incident where they put Elon Musk's mom on the cover

[–]UncleWillard56 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

So that's where that dumb chick from Bud Light ended up.