Magazine Newsstands: Hos Before Brünos

@depardoo:
...Because that would have caused turmohel!

Don Logan

Oh my. That is one pretty man. Bring me a slice of that with a cup of tea.

@CHIC NOIR: It's the result of the liberal bisexual double standard!

aaxan

It is hypocrisy for sure, but it seems more isolated than not because I saw Sasha's naked ass on many a newsstand this week in Manhattan ;)

Regina Walton

Ww got this issue at home. Did you hear about the nationawide paraffin shortage after waxing Baron Cohen?? Yankee Candle had to shut down all it's factories.

TroisFilles

@♥Anti-Social Socialite♥: ummmmm, this was meant to be an oversimplification, EVERYONE - a response to the placement of the magazines in the article, so get your funny, grotesque undies out of a bunch.

@Miss Anita Manbadly: There are men out there with eating disorders and body dysmorphia. From what I've read and heard, a large number of men who suffer from the two live in Miami and LA.

We can't make pretend that some people aren't very nice to look at.

@♥Anti-Social Socialite♥: So you haven't seen Beth Ditto?

Adiphyte

@annab: yeah, love 'em and all but need to wait until that generation dies off before we move forward

Welllllllllllll according to the History Channel or Discovery Channel or one of those posted today that male spermazoids swim faster towards hot chicks. [dsc.discovery.com]

My grandparents got this issue in the mail (grandpa reads GQ??) when I was at their place for the holiday weekend and I had to listen to a 5 minute rant on how it was "trash." No one responded when I pointed out how it was nearly identical to Jennifer Aniston's GQ cover a few months ago, and my grandma flat out didn't believe me when I said he was married (to a woman) and had a child. Sigh. The olds...

annab

@CHIC NOIR: There are a lot of infantile / republican men out there who can't handle male nudity.

What we need to do is to teach straight boys that they can be pretty just like girls, and they can have eating disorders and body dysmorphia just like girls, and then we will move two steps closer to equality. :p

@Porcelina: Can we fix that situation?

I am seeing a whole lot of "no one wants to see that" this summer and I think I would be perfect as the enforcer of the "Put A Shirt On It" law.

@BookishLookish: I think it may have been a comment on how naked men are portrayed in popular culture, either for laughs or humiliation. (cf. "Forgetting Sarah Marshall")

@elsapel: hehe cosign. I don't get why American men are so paranoid about being gay. either way, who cares.

@♥Anti-Social Socialite♥:Anti it depends on who the man is. A naked Reggie Bush is anthing but funny or grotesque.

I guess this means that a man's body isn't up for public consumption but a woman's body is open for public consumption, ridicule, lust, graffiti etc…

I like seeing good-looking men in magazines. Crap like this pisses me off. Why aren't women allowed a cheap thrill in the same way that men are. Something tells me if Jesus luz was featured on the cover of W magazine, his photos would have been covered too. Along with a lot of hate from the men folk.

@ocpd301

Think about it.

If you go to the store to pick up your SBC GQ, are you going to pick up the copy with a piece of white paper attached to it? Or are you going to take the one under it?

If no one buys the covered up version, the stack will forever stay veiled from our children's eyes! And they're saving the environment too!

It's not his body they're hiding, it's the cover blurb on Palin. She probably threatened to file an injunction.


On another note, holy juiced-up jeebus, he has got some big-ass feet

@BBooms: or maybe she is.

@Mikey-B: +1 Case dismissed!

Housebroken(mostly)

censorship wasn't demanded by the public or government....it was begged for by the poor employees...

Housebroken(mostly)

In Esquire's defense, Bar Rafaeli is totally freakin' hot.

Take a close look at the photo of the two magazines on the newsstand. The GQ on top has white paper taped over it, while the GQs underneath have a visible cover. Did the stand owner do that, or did our photographer do that just for drama? Clearly they are not that concerned about the cover being viewed.

ocpd301

I thought it was to keep them safe from the mens.

SamikshaVespa

they are pretty funny looking

SamikshaVespa

@DahlELama: LOL. Good point..and in all honesty I did see "Borat". So I have..seen more than I would maybe have liked.

@SaraRueful: Oh I think he's great. I'm just not into dudes. :)

@1.1.1.: Yeah, that is also a good point!

Wow if that is not a clear example of the male gaze, I don't know what is.

elinorwhyme

@Stream Of Consciousness:

This is beautiful. Obviously, SBC is being campy, but if magazines objectified men in the same way as they do women, this is sort of what it would look like.

I'd love to see an entire issue of a glossy magazine with wall-to-wall, groomed-to-death, half-naked men in the usual female model poses.

1.1.1.

@Robert Synnott: He's Jewish. Fair guess.

@SaraRueful: I wonder if waxing everything is better or worse than having to wear that stinky Borat suit and never washing it?

@BookishLookish: That is seriously the funniest think I have read in a long time.

@Porcelina: Well, men are coated with this protective miasma, which we'll call DemWo, short for "the demurity of women." When men strip down in public, they rely on the power of DemWo to make all the women magically look away, keeping them safe from any truly filthy thoughts that might harm them. Because if men were objectified to the degree that women are, the whole world might come crashing down, and then where would we all be?

@snugbug: Have you checked?

@♥Anti-Social Socialite♥: Interesting. And what's your stance on naked animals? Sexy? Or grotesque but yet strangely sexy?

Esquire is still being published? Why?!

markscottmusic

@Porcelina: But we cover their naughtly butts and thighs with long baggy shorts.

@Ken Green: strange feelings in his weiner?

elsapel

Top or power bottom ?

Mohamed Ndiaye-Kingué

@♥Anti-Social Socialite♥: Are you twelve years old?

@CaptainFantastic: I feel like this was that one on St. Mark's that also has cappuccino. Always struck me as a bad idea.

@CaptainFantastic: Especially if there's a book club meeting going on.

DahlELama

@Lymed: Which is funny, since men are allowed to go topless in public, but women are not. Strange laws, we have.

@Stream Of Consciousness: I'm pretty sure that you won't have a choice if you see Bruno, but yes, agreed wholeheartedly.

DahlELama

Nuttin' but cracked Cohen.

Subhead of article: "Straight" newsstand owner says strange feelings he had while looking at GQ cover is real reason why"

Ken Green

@BBooms: I'm quite straight and I would strongly disagree that naked men are only funny or grotesque.

Also, even if that were the case, what's wrong with funny on the cover of the comedy issue of GQ?

@♥Anti-Social Socialite♥: Oh god, really? Those are the two things naked men can be?

Someone is clearly not gay.

the male body is naughty, don't you know that?

And the morale of the story is...James Brown, play us out!

naked men are funny or grotesque - naked women are... decidedly not.

Well I see GQ is still with its theme of putting hacks on the cover, as it has been for the last 7 years.

@HiredGoons: Never pass out drunk at a party in a tattoo parlor.

Bar Refaeli has some really crappy tattoos.

so the moral is that if i clothe myself in sharpie text i won't get cited for public indency?

...good to know.

zombies.like.lattés.too

Not that I would like to see Sacha Baron Cohen's naked ass...but that reeks of hypocrisy for sure.

@depardoo: ...Above all because that wouldda been factually incorrect.

snugbug

One title that was absolutely rejected: "Sacha Baron Cohen: Uncut".

depardoo

@1.1.1.: Someone took a stab at showing the double standard involved in these poses. See photos below in linked-to article. http://contexts.org/socimages/2009/07/08/satirizing-sitcoms/

1.1.1.