This picture gallery is incredible (in a bad way). If they wanted to do role-play, why not dress her up in other sports equipment (hockey, football, baseball)? Oh wait, that wouldn't be SEXY, wouldn't it? They have to put her in a kitchen with dressy clothes to remind us that she's a woman...

If she were not a pretty woman, I'm sure Sports Illustrated wouldn't have even made a picture gallery of her (either on or off the green).

that this golfer is enacting cliched sex roles, then sure, Tiger Woods reenacts the male version of cliched denigrating sex roles all the time (as do most men).

I'll let you figure out some of the equivalent male sex roles.

But the woman is 23 years old and can make her own decisions about these things. Perhaps she was trying for the Cindy Sherman in the kitchen look.

Here's a hint. You won't see an image of Tiger Woods mowing the lawn in a tuxedo until Tiger himself chooses to be photographed that way.

Unless you have special knowledge that Ms. Gulbis was coerced, or Photoshopped, or that she didn't sign a stack of releases, or that she or her gender does not have agency, this image is merely an example of the single standard of cause and effect, choice and consequence.

She is fine, what great photos.

She has more wrinkles than a prune. She's mid-20s? She looks like she got rode hard and put away wet. Fugly.

Yeah, the pix are pretty stupid poses, too. Maybe the LPGA is doing her a favor banning her calendar. I wouldn't fuck her with your dick.

Oh, yeah. It's sexist, blah blah blah. Let me know when Wie does a calendar, though. Just so I can make sure.

...is that there's nothing in the sauce pan. She's not stirring anything! How fake.

Actually, the pics are in reference to the Q&A that accompanies the pics. Here's the first question:

On her love of cooking and baking

"On tour I try to stay with host families instead of in hotels so I can use their kitchens. For breakfast I'll make everyone pancakes, but my signature dish is stir-fry. Baking's a little harder since it has to be so precise. I'm not the only good cook on tour. I call Annika for help with dinner recipes, but Cristie [Kerr's] the best baker."

Looks like another instance of feminists demonizing a woman for not making the "correct" choices.

This is why feminism has difficulty recruiting support from women of color, women who are working class or poor, women who you would expect whould support feminist causes. This is frivolous. This does not address serious issues that effect lives. This is complaining about a female public figure being presented in a June Cleaver/Betty Crocker themed photo spread.

Tom Hanks looked great in his Ward Cleaver/Bing Crosby Esquire photos, mowing the lawn, BBQing on the grill, waving to the neighbors. Ok, he's not an athlete, he's an actor, but the photos were American shorthand for "average American guy," which was the gist of the Hanks article.

The SI caption came up with a lame little cooking metaphor to go along with some silly publicity photos. So, she can cook and play golf. So what? How does this make her less of a person? How does this make her a victim? I can cook. I often wear an apron when I do. Sometimes I'm even cute. But I've never felt degraded. I've never felt like a servant. I felt hungry. So I cooked. It's less expensive and often more fun than take-out.

Gulbis is a young woman who hasn't really achieved enough in golf to warrant excessive SI attention, but she wants to build a brand for herself, so she made herself cute for some goofy pictures. With everything going on in the world; wage inequality, healthcare, child care, domestic violence, family planning—this is a feminist issue? Cute golfers should be taken more seriously and featured in more butchy photo spreads?

Excuse me while I tie on my apron, I've got bigger fish to fry.

A true feminist would look at her performance, not her looks or gender, and realize that she's only a pro golfer _because_ she's a woman. If she took her game to the pro tour, she simply couldn't hack it. Annika Sorenstam, the best female golfer in the world, would be ranked, at very best, mid-pack on the men's tour.

Yes, they should have done a photo spread on the ugly women golfers. And, if they are going to pose them in out of context settings, they should be representing traditional male roles, as representing a traditional female - housebound, enslaved in the kitchen by her phallus-bearing, priveleged Patriarchal Master - is degrading and oppressive.

I look forward to the flanneled and mulleted Butch Dykes of the LPGA Tour in next month's issue.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/multimedia/photo_gallery/0608/gallery.wiecontroversy/content.1.html

I don't follow golf at all, but it details with pictures no feminist would ever consider humiliating how the girl who is good, but not great is attempting to leapfrog other more able golfers.

The woman made the CHOICE to sell the image of home maker... I'm guessing it's part of her P.R. to enhance her brand. You realize she's got a racy calendar out that has been banned by the LPGA, right? Who are you kidding... exploited... non-feminist... The chic is doing the most male of all things: following the money.

Now there's a woman who exudes, um...feminism! Yeah, women'w rights and all.

must...remember...to...aim...away...from...keyboard

unless you think she's a moron, she posed for and signed a release that allowed those photos to go to press. Isn't it possible that this woman enjoys the kitchen - that this is her kitchen and she wants to show it off? If feminism's goal is to ridicule and to disdain any suggestion of traditonal culture, then feminism will probably lose...

She's Korean, not Chinese.

I'm a guy who likes to bake. I'd love to learn how she baked that huge cake in a small pot on the stovetop!