It’s About Time More Magazines Came Out of the Closet
Kudos to Vanity Fair, which managed to do so without the bungled scheming of Howard Bragman. But not all magazines can just up and reveal themselves to be homosexual. Some need more drawn out explanations.
Like Out, wherein editor-in-chief Aaron Hicklin and some white guys speaking gay reveal what it’s like to work at a fag rag.
If it looks like a lot of sitting around in front of a computer, it is! At last, the magazine industry is catching up to the comforts of blogging.
Vanity Fair is actually very heterosexual male-oriented. There are copious amounts of ads and images featuring half-naked women. It’s like a metrosexuals’ Playboy.
Therefore, I totally disagree with the notion that Vanity Fair is a fag rag. It discounts female heterosexual readers’ desire for men’s bodies, something that is very real.
It’s just that our patriarchal society discourages heterosexual women from lusting after men’s bodies. Instead, it encourages women to lust after women’s bodies for the benefit of the sleazy straight guy fantasy. This is one reason why female bodies and female bisexuality is glamorized by the patriarchal powers that be.
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Funny, the guy on the left doesn’t look very Irish…
(Yes, I know. It’s Côte d’Ivoire.) :P