Comments on: Does Vanity Fair Impose a Double Standard? http://www.social-cache.com/2009/03/does-vanity-fair-impose-a-double-standard we deal in uncommon cents. Wed, 16 Sep 2009 06:44:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: beerick http://www.social-cache.com/2009/03/does-vanity-fair-impose-a-double-standard/comment-page-1#comment-5387 beerick Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:59:44 +0000 http://www.social-cache.com/?p=405#comment-5387 It's pretty easy to see this as a double standard, but I don't know that it is. The body suits (fortunately) leave much to the imagination. But the important part is the spoof. The flesh-colored body suits are able to capture the aesthetic of the previous cover, the colors, the lines. It seems that a bunch of hairy, lumpy dudes might not just be less appealing to look at, but also break the symmetry between the images. So it could go either way...it wouldn't have been difficult to turn Jason to disguise his man-parts and have them all go full monty, which would be a truer spoof, a bit more shocking, more talked about, etc. Or they could maintain the aesthetic but with a bunch of dudes. It’s pretty easy to see this as a double standard, but I don’t know that it is. The body suits (fortunately) leave much to the imagination. But the important part is the spoof. The flesh-colored body suits are able to capture the aesthetic of the previous cover, the colors, the lines. It seems that a bunch of hairy, lumpy dudes might not just be less appealing to look at, but also break the symmetry between the images.

So it could go either way…it wouldn’t have been difficult to turn Jason to disguise his man-parts and have them all go full monty, which would be a truer spoof, a bit more shocking, more talked about, etc. Or they could maintain the aesthetic but with a bunch of dudes.

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