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February 24, 2006 on 7:28 pm | In Uncategorized |
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I remember thinking that the Cindy Crawford K.D. Lang thing was cool. Of course I was like 15 when it came out, so try hard was probably the order of the day.
Not crazy about the current cover, but I’d still rather look at those girls than a naked, pregnant, Demi Moore.
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Comment by Chalicechick — February 24, 2006 #
This is from an article about the cover. Min is the editor of US Weekly:
“So where’s the nude photo of Brad Pitt? Or George Clooney, who appears later in the issue, dressed, amid a bevy of women in flesh-toned bras and panties? Let’s face it, Min says: Women do like to see sexy men - just not with all their clothes off.
“Men just aren’t viewed as sex objects in the same way that women are,” Min says. “Women don’t think about men being naked in the same way that men think about women.” In fact, she says, at her magazine’s offices, when photos come in of a male star with no shirt on, “We say, ‘Gross! Put some clothes on!’ ” (Imagine that being uttered about an attractive female.)”
Soooooo….young women are naked on the cover of the magazine, not because our society views women as sex objects but because women don’t view men as sex objects? So if women would just objectify men the way that men objectify women, it would all be good?
I call that a load of crap. No young male actor of the day is being asked to do a naked photo shoot or being given crap about not doing the shoot or having his balls grabbed on TV. I don’t care how willing those to women were to sit for that photo, it still shows how screwed up we all are about the objectification of women.
And it pisses me off.
Comment by EatingAin'tBad — February 27, 2006 #
I think what also disturbed me about it was how young these two women are. They are VERY young.
And Tom Ford is not.
I’m glad that Rachel McAdams checked out of the photo shoot.
I used to buy Vanity Fair once in a while during plane flights, but I was at the airport this weekend and when I saw that cover, I determined right then and there that I was NOT going to support it.
Comment by LaReinaCobre — March 1, 2006 #