@Sukie in the Graveyard: It's easy: he's the black guy. His name is Cullen Jones and being black I couldn't help but laugh when he said that African Americans are more likely to drown, proving that sad cliche has some root in fact. This was part of the reason he's setting up programs.

Um, pretty boy? I don't think so. Godlike athlete to be sure, but pretty he ain't.

@Archetype: Truly. Something empowering would be better, but I understand that not everyone goes that way. I guess what I'm saying is, so few people stay with any sort of workout plan that I can't begrudge them finding one they like that works.

@Carabell: You left out that she gets hot when he shows her how to do it and it becomes part of their foreplay.

The irony here is, would as many people click on this story if it weren't also ostensibly about stripping?

@athenaswisdom: Actually Yasmine Bleeth (remember her) said something to that effect. As a short and curvy girl, what she wanted was height.

@citrus_buddha: Then that should be what bothers you, not an woman as accomplished as Serena Williams deciding she'd like to be seen as sexy on top of everything else. She's no one's victim here. In fact, the real issue is that Men's Fitness isn't that major of a magazine. GQ is a major magazine and put Anna…

Hey, the pork pie hat can work as Taye Diggs as proved on many an occasion. The real problem his is that ill-fitting suit. No member of the Rat Pack or even Swingers would be caught dead in a suit like that. And why is Tobey Maguire given a pass for not even trying!?!

@citrus_buddha: Um, because she's got an amazing body forged in the fires of will and dedication to be the best? Just like Michael Phelps. That. Is. Hot. This is hardly gender specific.

@citrus_buddha: It would be different if she started this way, but this only happening now after how many Grand Slam titles? She's actually considered sexy due in part to her success. And given the standard of beauty is usually skinny, blonde, no-title winning Anna Kornikova, this is actually a step forward.

"...it's hard to look your best when you're sweating, grunting, and making faces."

@RollsRoyceRevenge: I think the only real difference is that the douchebag writers of the past never asked for forgiveness or understanding of their asshole behavior. There was no self-pity involved.

@rocknrollunicorn: And that shot is a bit premature, because then his expression changes to match it!

I'm sick because the knowledge that Alexis is as bitchy as her look, name and parentage suggests is just hot to me.

@TaraIncognita: I'm coming to this late, but when you think back on writers (Mailer, Roth, Hemmingway, etc) when is narcissistic douchebag not a prerequisite? And even if it weren't they look at people like Mailer and Roth and see justifications for them not to grow up and be men.

@SisterMaryMartha: I get that. Trust me, I want stab myself for having R. Kelly on my iPod, but "Step In The Name Of Love" just hits the spot. And that performance with Babyface was what not only made me get my first Madonna album, but it kicked that song to number one the following week. Nothing beats a live…

@TaraIncognita: I love the effect music has on kids. It lets you know just how wondrous it truly is.

...and I'm gonna call "bullshit" on the plastic surgery. Sorry if I don't believe everything New York Magazine tells me. As if we wouldn't all look great at 50 if were zillionaires. Hell a change in diet alone would improve most of us, so imagine if you'd only eaten the best food in the world for the last 20 years,…

Nothing annoys me quite so much as this "hipper than thou" bullshit where person offhandedly claims not to like a celebrity for their actual work but the spectacle of it all. Fuck you. She's done some solid pop music over the last 25 years. And I never get tired of posting this:

@lucyjae: She looks like crap, but in her defense she didn't write the show.