sex illustrated?

So the new Sports Illustrated Olympic Preview issue is going to hit the shelves soon, and people are already getting worked up over the cover. Lindsey Vonn, an Olympic skier, is featured on the cover of the magazine. She is in a pose as a skier would be going down a hill on her skis with poles in hand. I see no problem in this stance, as it is how skiers stand when they are skiing.

The problem lies in the fact that she is an attractive woman. People are getting sensitive about her stance because of this. It is a somewhat provocative stance for a woman to be in, but not in the context of skiing!! A lot of people are getting so overly sensitive about how women are portrayed in the media. Granted, there are many media outlets that exploit women and men for that matter, but come on, this is an Olympic skier in an Olympic skiing stance. Would be this big of a deal if there were a man on the cover?