ANDY RODDICK’S WIFE, BROOKLYN DECKER, SCORES THE US SPORTS ILLUSTRATED SWIMWEAR EDITION COVER

Here is tennis-player, Andy Roddick’s, 22-year old wife, on her first US Sports Illustrated Swimwear Edition cover.

“A perfect 10.”

“It’s the news of a lifetime” she says, of her pictorial and cover.

(Oh. OK. 22 has not been a very long life)

The image is not very …new, is it?

Cookie-Cutter-blonde, topless, small bikini, coy “come-hither-and get me-you-naughty-big-boy” look in her eyes.

A timeless man-pleasing, non-challenging image of what female perfection is supposed to be.

And the readers of SI will, no doubt love it.

I’m happy for them.

As a woman, (and women’s opinions about this cover, we know, are 100% irrelevant) I think this image is just another man-pleasing blonde.

Timeless? Why fix what ain’t broke?

Or grimly old-fashioned?

You could almost imagine it with Cat Stevens’ “Moonshadow” playing in the background.

Sigh.

I might need to revise the heartfelt opinion of my last post, just a little.

There is a need for those female Fashion Crazies to do what they do.

That endless experimentation, pushing of fashion boundaries etc is, at least, undertaken, with an eye towards an alternative aesthetic to the relentlessly man-pleasing cliche of the SI cover.

Those Mad fashion chicks, when you consider the way they dress, are at least, driven by something other than merely attracting men.

So, in a strange way, they are warriors for a cause

In a Man’s World, it would be Brooklyn Decker, in half her yellow bikini, looking eager to please, forever.