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Underaged Entropy
Jan. 6th, 2011 10:40 amYou know, people are making it hard to be an honest, clean-living pervert these days. Case in point: Tom Ford's new spread for French Vogue.
http://gawker.com/5725620/french-vogue-grooms-its-youngest-models-yet/
Is this what getting older is? Telling people 'you know, in my day, we could ogle the girls in the fashion magazines, secure in the fact that they were at least old enough to be in high school.' When did good old sexual objectification become just not good enough any more? Take a fresh-faced, buxom junior coed, put her in a skimpy bikini or some daisy-dukes and an almost see-through top, and take pictures of her holding a can of motor oil or whatever product you're trying to sell. When did this stop being a winning formula?
Tongue-in-cheek commentary aside, it really does seem like we're creeping along towards an underage sexuality event horizon. Every pop star with a younger sister has put out some kind of stripper in training clothing line, girl's dolls are outfitted with the same clothes you see women dancing in rap videos wearing, and now we're just tearing away all excuses with Vogue shoots that are simply disturbing from the very start. I wonder if this is an expression of erotic exhaustion? In that we're so bombarded on a daily basis by oversexualized images for absolutely everything, that this is a jaded reflection of what is needed to capture our attention for more than a second. It reminds me a bit of the GLEE photos, where it wasn't enough to simply have two very attractive young women in the photoshoot, but that it had to be about equating their sexuality with their underaged fictional identities.
I suspect I'll be telling young people in the pub how in my day, a picture of a girl in a tight shirt eating a hotdog got a lewd reaction. Today, it just gets a yawn.
http://gawker.com/5725620/french-vogue-grooms-its-youngest-models-yet/
Is this what getting older is? Telling people 'you know, in my day, we could ogle the girls in the fashion magazines, secure in the fact that they were at least old enough to be in high school.' When did good old sexual objectification become just not good enough any more? Take a fresh-faced, buxom junior coed, put her in a skimpy bikini or some daisy-dukes and an almost see-through top, and take pictures of her holding a can of motor oil or whatever product you're trying to sell. When did this stop being a winning formula?
Tongue-in-cheek commentary aside, it really does seem like we're creeping along towards an underage sexuality event horizon. Every pop star with a younger sister has put out some kind of stripper in training clothing line, girl's dolls are outfitted with the same clothes you see women dancing in rap videos wearing, and now we're just tearing away all excuses with Vogue shoots that are simply disturbing from the very start. I wonder if this is an expression of erotic exhaustion? In that we're so bombarded on a daily basis by oversexualized images for absolutely everything, that this is a jaded reflection of what is needed to capture our attention for more than a second. It reminds me a bit of the GLEE photos, where it wasn't enough to simply have two very attractive young women in the photoshoot, but that it had to be about equating their sexuality with their underaged fictional identities.
I suspect I'll be telling young people in the pub how in my day, a picture of a girl in a tight shirt eating a hotdog got a lewd reaction. Today, it just gets a yawn.
