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The latest issue of GQ has some highly sexualized photos of select members of the Glee cast.
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Namely, the white, straight ones.
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I'd say they've created a new public controversy but really it's the same old argument about
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whether images of sexualized women is acceptable or not.
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The reason this photoshoot is different from the thousands of photos of half naked women that
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grace the pages of men's magazines is that it's crossing the line into simulating pornographic
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pedophilia. Frankly, I'm really sad that there is even a debate as to whether these images
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are disturbing or not. The Parent's Television Council released a statement against the
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photoshoot saying, "It is disturbing that GQ which is explicitly written for adult men, is sexualizing
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the actresses who play high school-aged characters on 'Glee' in this way. It borders on pedophilia."
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In response GQ released this statement, "The Parent's Television Council must not be watching
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much TV these days and should really learn to divide reality from fantasy. As often happens in
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Hollywood these 'kids' are in their twenties, Cory Montieth's almost 30! I think they are
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old enough to do what they want."
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First of all GQ, it doesn't matter what age the actors are they are known for their portrayal
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of high school students on a very popular television show.
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This photoshoot is specifically representing fictional TV characters in a high school setting.
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This photoshoot is no different from the countless pornographic style images that infantalize
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adult women and fetishize young girls.
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How many times do we see in the mass media women dressed up as young girls with lollipops
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and catholic school girl outfits just so straight men can live out some disturbing dominator fantasy
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about corrupting innocence.
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GQ isn't kidding anyone, they were absolutely clear on what the spread was and who
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their audience is and the fact that people are actually defending it just goes to show
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how desensitized we've become as a society to the widespread, pervasive sexualization
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of young girls. It's important to remember the GQ is a business
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whose sole desire is to make a profit in selling magazines and more importantly in
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selling the ad space inside their magazines.
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They know that these images will appeal to their male audience, they know that it will cause
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a controversy, and they don't care nor do they take any responsibility for promoting and
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encouraging images of sexualized young people, and they don't care about the larger
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social impact that that has. Secondly, what is this ridiculous nonsense about 'fantasy vs reality'?
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That is really a stretch GQ, it's a television show about high school students that millions of
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people watch every week and you've taken those characters and turned it into a male pornographic
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fantasy. This isn't an issue about if an 8 year old picks up a magazine and sees it, this is a public
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health issue about the way that women are sexualized constantly in the media.
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By help of the media young men and boys are being trained to view and expect certain
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behaviours from women such as the willingness to submit to their sexual desires at anytime or
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any place and the right to complete access of a woman's body.
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The pervasiveness of these types of images clearly harms women and women's sense of
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self respect but it also hurts men and boys because they are being taught to have no sense
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of sexual integrity or empathy, and that women's bodies are something to be used sexually
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that they aren't whole and complete human beings.
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The less schools are teaching sexual education the more the media becomes a critical tool
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that helps shape gender identities and that can really hurt both genders capacity for love
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and healthy sexual relationships in the future.
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It is not enough to talk to women and girls one on one, it has to be addressed as a widespread
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problem that affects both men and women. A key component of addressing this issue is a
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separation of Sexualization and Sexuality. Sexualization turns people into objects
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and teaches women that their only values comes from their sexual appeal.
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