Posted on 05/17/2011 4:48:27 PM PDT by decimon
Photos of male model Andrej Pejic, featured in the new issue of Dossier magazine, have caused something of a firestorm of controversy after two of the United States' biggest bookstore chains have requested that the company use opaque plastic to cover the images. Pejic is featured shirtless on the magazine's cover.
At 19, Pejic has become known for his androgynous look, and frequently models men's and women's fashions. But the cover photo for Dossier, at least according to the Barnes & Noble and Borders bookstores, goes too far. By showing an androgynous model on its cover, the chains reportedly felt that the image might offend some customers. Barnes & Noble in particular, stated that they felt that customers may look at the image and be confused as to the gender of the person featured, leading them to be offended by it. The official response from the company to Dossier's objections stated that while they know the cover features a shirtless man, "the model is young and could be deemed a naked female."
Some fashion sites have taken the initial stance that the objection to Pejic's cover is based on physical ideals of male beauty. Jezebel and other online responders have focused on the idea that Pejic is being censored because he is thin and does not have an athletic build, unlike some other male celebrities and athletes that have been featured shirtless on other magazines in the past.
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This reminds me about the story that was in the WSJ last week, about sexual pheromones and sexual attraction. We’ve been hearing about it for years, but Rush pointed out something that I hadn’t thought about it when reading the article.
The article said that women were attracted to more traditionally masculine men during ovulation. Rush said that maybe this accounts for the rise of the metro-sexual male and feminism at the same time that the use of birth control pills became so wide spread.
No more ovulation, little attraction to strong masculine men.
Now, with new long lasting types of birth control, will desire shut down all together? It works both ways, men are more desirous of ovulating women, just as women are more attracted to the masculine men at that time.
Post #19 is what MEN like me think women should look like.
Thanks. Semper Fi devil dog. Live in fame or go down in flame! :)
You’re right. I have reported my post to the moderator and requested that it be removed. My apologies to everybody.
I guess
androgynous = skinny twerp.
He’s from “Bosnia”, with a Croat father and a Serbian mother. He says that he is an atheist and a materialist, and likes to read Karl Marx.
It would be good if he would ditch the false glamor and Satanic delusion of his freakish path in life, and get very Orthodox very fast!!!! He would certainly be a lot poorer in material terms, but would be MUCH better off!!
And he would then be (in worldly terms) an ordinary young man, working on getting an education and preparing for the future. Who knows—that future might turn out to be very bright.
I thank you for that!
On the general topic, there was an article here recently about how a lot of young 20-40 women in Japan were all of the sudden, in the wake of the quake and tsunami, looking for a man to marry. I guess they’re realizing it’s nice to have some muscle available if you need to get out of a wrecked building, nice to have someone permanently on your team, looking out for you.
He is indeed bare-chested and is indeed androgynous.
Yeppers. He is bare and he is androgynous. But it isn't censorship unless the government forces them to do it.
His picture doesn't bother me, but if it bothers the stores, they have a right to cover him, refuse to sell the magazines, or take any number of other steps.
Or, customers may look at the image and be confused as to the SEX of the person featured, leading them to head back to the Mystery and Science Fiction sections to write down the titles of all the new books so they can request them from the library.
I think I have just added “Hotter than a gallon jug of Tabasco” to my lexicon. ;)
As I read the bible there is not one, except for Jesus.
Can I get a “DO NOT WANT”, brothers and sisters?
I LOVE lung warts!
Well.....I think I would advoid using the mensroom if he was in there.
life is scary enough...
“Androgyny is so 80’s.”
Well said!
I think full on hetero might be the next big thing!
“Rush said that maybe this accounts for the rise of the metro-sexual male and feminism at the same time that the use of birth control pills became so wide spread.”
Now that is interesting. It makes total sense. It will never be investigated!
That’s why I love Rush. He sees things in issues that I completely miss. I thought that the remark about the growth in the use of birth control methods, coinciding with the growth of the feminazis and metro-sexualism being because of depressed desire, rather than freedom, was stunning.
I had read the article a couple of days before Rush mentioned it. I found it interesting because I do believe that there is a chemical component to attraction and couples that never experience that chemical attraction, miss out on a whole lot. I also think that it could be the reason for the increased divorce rate. (I think that Rush mentioned that, too)
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