The New Controversial Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue (It’s Not What You Think)

We at Consider aren’t above using the image of a woman with few or no clothes on to get people reading. It seems Sports Illustrated isn’t either:

UH OH! “2010′s Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, which includes such beauties as Israeli supermodels Bar Refaeli and Esti Ginzburg, includes a photo of a model posing near a World War II-era fighter plane, complete with Nazi swastikas.” Before you get too outraged, do note that it’s an American plane, the Nazi swastikas symbolize dead Nazis, the shot is online only, and people don’t even jerk off to the Swimsuit Issue anymore, but, you know, it’s coming from Haaretz. I guess we can give them credit for trying.

I’m interested to see how this plays out. There are a lot of different angles one could take. As The Awl post notes, the swastikas are there to denote nazis killed. On the other hand, you could easily have used a skull in bones instead even though that might take away from the historic authenticity.

–Daniel Strauss