Glee goes pornochic for lame dude-centric magazine

Oh, I’m just waiting for the gleeks out there to attempt to pin me as some tight-wad after this post, but that’s okay. I happened to see a lame celebrity show on television this evening and it mentioned the Glee cast photoshoot for dude-culture magazine “GQ”. Now, parents are pissed because the photoshoot is “nearing on pedophilia” as the Glee kids induce boners (mostly just the women, of course). The magazine claims that cast is full of adults so they can do what they want, so there is no issue. Well, I have to say I do see the issue. The issue is that the show portrays young people to other much younger people. When you make a show that is targeted to a young audience, parents usually have an opinion, which is fair. We all know how sexualized childhood can be, and I honestly thought Glee would break some gender norms by attempting to be progressive in the themes of the show. I was wrong. The photoshoot sexualizes all the women in dude-centric poses and outfits, you know “the sexy secretary” and so on. I mean, obviously this is going to be seen by the 14 year old girls who curl up on their couch every week to watch the show. It’s just slightly unfortunate that even a show that was attempting to change certain aspects of entertainment (at least I thought it was) can fall under rape-culture and promote it.

Before some readers jump on and call me a prude, just actually look at this gender-role embracing crap. Also, look at the way the men from the show are portrayed.

OMGZ, Miniskirts and "break your neck" high heels! CUTE! I just love lea michele's "fuck me" face in this shot and Cory's pimpin' 3 way. You go, bro! Also randomly grabbing women's asses is totally sexay.

I mean, come one. The parents are legit with this one. It is such a cheap, lazy way to sell an already popular show to douche bag males who read GQ magazine. Why when anything is slightly cool it gets taken over by capitalist pornocrats and comes out looking like this?

Also, note how the only women in this photoshoot are the white thin ones from the show. What a fucking surprise!

But wait, there's more!

As you can see here GQ has decided it is now playboy...or at least maxim magazine. We have lea michele using a sucker to accommodate some phallic fantasy in the dude reader. It also gives the "I'm underage and naughty for you". People are pissed because of age regression used in the photoshoot. The glee kids are being portrayed as kids, not adults. This whole "naughty school girl" crap is a nice pseudo-pedophilia porn gimmick.

Wait, is this the same magazine? Oh, right...it's just a dude. Dudes are rarely portrayed in any seuxalized manner (unless it is confirming of their prowess with women) in dude-magazines. It appears that only the women from the show are portrayed as endlessly horny and completely available.

Here's more age-regressive, creepy cheerleader fetish

Defenders of the shoot claim "it's art" and "they're adults!!!" and "it's not a teen magazine it's a MEN'S magazine"

Surely the fact that it's a magazine for men totally clears it of any wrong-doing and prevents it from receiving any outside critics, particularly from a woman. The fact that they are adults is secondary to the fact that they are purposely dressed up like under aged teenagers. This is a porn tactic that many directors use to make pseudo-child porn. Assholes like Max Hardcore do this by dressing the women up like children, making them pose in an "innocent" manner.

But, I digress...

Here are two shots that illustrate the gendered, sexist bullshit i'm talking about.

In this photo we see the women are sexually available and wanting of the man in the photo. The man is shown to be happy to have such horny women ready to be with him. Women are always horny for dudes, of course. Bit of a double standard much?

I hate popular culture.