Further to much correspondence.
Anne writes:
I am surprised you haven’t featured the debate around Stephanie Roche/Life magazine [racy photoshoot of world’s best goal nominee in yesterday’s Sunday Independent magazine] considering you usually make a noise about women’s football. As someone who has played football with Step I am happy for her if she is happy with the pictures. What I would like to know is whether she had to dress like that to be on the cover?
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If you’re female, and you want to be in the Sindo, you have to dress without much on.
Is that racy? She’s just showing her stomach, it’s not like she’s draped across a bed.
Aye, it’s pretty racy alright. Not saying I disapprove or anything, but that get-up would certainly turn a few heads if you saw someone sporting it in town on a Saturday night.
But not yours. You’d be sitting there in crotch-less cacks, sipping a cocktail, turning to your friends with an enquiringly raised eyebrow, saying: “Is THAT racy? Pu-leaaaaaaaaaaase dahhhhhhling.”
Well, that IS how I roll. Always raising the bar on racy Dublin club nights.
Lol – can I have your number?
i only communicate by pidgeon, soz
No. she’s looking stylish, but if Anne thinks this is some sexist thing she should take some time to look up pictures or Ronaldo, Beckham, Nemar etc. in their underwear. Nothing wrong here.
Aren’t Ronaldo, Beckham, Neymar, etc. actually trying to sell underwear, though? I.e. most of them have actually been commissioned by the underwear makers.
Ah gimme a break. She’s not showing her last line of defence, she’s wearing clothes that make her look good and wouldn’t really cause much more than a second look if worn on a night out (potentially from Messi and Ronaldo again). Seems a woman can’t get away with wearing anything these days, if she was wearing a feckin berka someone would have some criticism to dish out. Personally I think she looks well in a totally non controversial way.
Don’t get me wrong – she looks great, but you can’t point at male footballers that are paid to advertiser jocks and then say that means everything else is mild by comparison
She has a solid back four
I don’t know where you’re pulling this “male footballers are only ever sold as sex symbols when they have a massive cheque from an advertising deal” thing from. Male celebrities are regularly modelled in their pants or less for photoshoots.
Looking for logic in the machinations of the Sunday Independent Life magazine in general and “journalist” Barry Egan in particular is a fool’s errand.
Just chalk it down to the Sindo being the Sindo, seethe for a few moments that it even still exists then go on with your day as if you never saw it. It’s really not worth any more attention than that
+1
You wouldnt see Robbie Henshaw togged out in speedos…mind you SINDO is a rag so what do you expect?
I’d pay (insert high figure cash sum) to see Henshaw in speedo jocks
Hope it was her decision on how she dressed for the shoot. She’s more then just a footballer.
Does she look like a 4 year old incapable of making her own decisions?
Do you not think she may have been under pressure over what to wear? that is my point.
‘Stephanie who is currently without a club….’
From 4 days ago:
http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer/stephanie-roche-to-play-with-texas-based-houston-dash-1.2109532
It would have gone to print by then I’d imagine. I’ve seen the mag on the Friday before so it probably goes to print on Wednesday or early Thursday.
Ah, don’t be adding logic to my dislike of the Sindo.
There is a long tradition of male and female sports people being sexualised – sure Rugby is 90% about oogling the burly men and 10% that thing they do with the ball (am I wrong?). I think those pics are pretty tame compared with Dieux du Stade.
Hope she gets the weather she’s expecting.
+ sun/one
Fair play to Stephanie Roche and her newly-found success!
I think she looks like a hooker here though.
balls, dribbles, shoots, scores etc
Wishful thinking?
i wish i had her ball control, if that’s what you mean..
Certain male players – Beckham, Ronaldo, Ljunberg, and a Welsh rugby player I’ve completely forgotten the name of – have pretty much every article accompanied with a picture of them in extremely skimpy jocks. It does go both ways.
As mentioned above – these guys are actually hired to sell the jocks – big difference.
fairly easy on the eye all the same….
Compare with the article on Katie Taylor in todays IT.
*today’s
Je suis pedant on his own petard.
ahh i remember that summer in amsterdam !
for gods sake….
She looks awkward.
So the only thing the Indo can think of doing with Stephanie Roche is to get her into some sexy clothes.
I mean she’s only a Northside footballer so it’s not like they have even to pretend to respect her right?
“So the only thing the Indo can think of doing with Stephanie Roche is to get her into some sexy clothes.”
Pretty much. Hopefully in a few years people will realise that you don’t have to half dress female athletes just to get good pictures
She’s actually a southsider from Shankill
I have sympathy Anne, I really do.
I often wonder was Beckham forced into those degrading pictures and worry for him.
Cop on and find the next windmill to tilt at
The ones he was paid a stupid amount of money to pose for? Oh yeah
Also he stuffed
Just the usual insidious latent Sindo Sexism. Viz cutting captions about “irish models” while photos of said models in bikinis on Grafton Street are strewn all over the life Magazine, articles about how liberal Ireland has become and isn’t it great beside an editorial about how anyone who looks at porn is smutty and pathetic beside an article about a successful Irish Woman dressed as a prostitute because its “provocative” or “empowering” but really because bewbs sells papers. Naturally the entire thing is an Irony free zone.
She’s willingly signed up with the Sindo and agreed to do an interview with Barry Egan.
Nuff said.
Last bit of the article
Read and watch regular updates from Stephanie Roche in her role as columnist and reporter for the ‘Irish Independent’ and Independent.ie
The first world Irish feminist problems on broadsheet.ie. Stay tuned for more.
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Thank you for introducing us all for the very first time to the term ‘first world problems’.
Thanks for being the first to highlight this.
To be honest, you could apply the whole ‘first world problems’ response to many of the political posts on Broadsheet and almost all of the problems experienced by the average Irish male because Ireland is, despite our awful economy, a first world country. Most people don’t because it’s a d*ck tactic (usually employed by people with d*cks) and doesn’t add anything to any conversation.
Ireland is not a first world country.
That comment is a classic nobody online with nothing much to say comment.
Dr. pseudo-intellectual, you tell me. At least you made an effort to think.
She looks like she was hit with Homers make up shot gun.
http://lolsnaps.com/upload_pic/HomersMakeupGun-7831.jpg
Twitter is full of bored Irish people who like to talk about things like this. It keeps them busy for a day or two, then it’s on to the next story and moment. Today it’s Stephanie Roche and a millionaire American actress talking about equal pay that keeps them less bored. And a lot of them go looking for trouble, they see what they want to see, and then get outraged on Twitter. They do the same acts again and again. This Stephanie Roche story is a non-story really but the bored Irish on Twitter won’t let it go. And the tabloid websites make the most of these stories to get views and some comments. These stories fill up space and get some views. Then they can be sponsored by Nissan and the PS4, woohoo.
The photographer should be given a good slap.
Did the make up budget not include her legs???
FFS she looks like she’s frozen from the waist down …
So cute
In our house this publication is called ‘t&a weekly’.
She was marginally famous for one goal FFS. She’ll be even more famous for this own goal. Dennisocracy’s Page Three anyone?
Isn’t Life mag edited by Brendan O’Connor? It would explain a lot. Plus, how can anyone still be shocked at how the Sindo views successful Irish women? Absolute joke of a newspaper.
This is it.
i would love to climb those legs