I found it unfair, really, some of the stuff I read [in response]. I was making a point, which was that I think young men do get objectified, do get sexualized unnecessarily. As a person who is definitely in that category, as a young leading man in this world, I feel I have a unique voice to talk about that. I was making a point to sort of say, ‘It just needs to be highlighted.’ With every photo shoot I ever go to, I’m told to take off my shirt, and I don’t.”
— Fully-clothed Game of Thrones star Kit Harington telling Out magazine how he felt about the criticism he received when he recently complained about being sexually objectified
Edgar Francisco Estrada
All he had to do was to be humbled and flattered.
Tony Stokes
Yeah, this should help him! #sarcasm
Colin McCoy
A) Continuing to whine about it is only going to make it worse, and
B) his female co-workers are all the time having to pull their titties out and you don’t see them crying about it.
erasure25
You know nothing Jon Snow!! But really, yes he is a person and not an object.
Matthew Farris
The less I know about actors, the better.
Chris L. Reynolds
Boo-hoo,I’m famous ð??µð??µð??µð??µ
Darcy John
what a pussy
Willy Garza
Let me comfort him
Roland Hamburger
He is actually just plain Boring in real life and very very Moody
Arcamenel
Shut up and take off your shirt.
polarisfashion
When I was younger I lost a lot of weight so I felt confident taking my shirt of at the dance clubs. I didn’t have a body like this guy but I thought I looked pretty good. Anyway, I put my shirt back on because I was not comfortable with complete strangers touching me. Don’t get me wrong I love dancing and grinding with someone but only when the feeling is mutual. I don’t just go up to someone, shirtless or not and start rubbing their chest up and down to get their attention. That part comes later… 😛
Low Country Boy
@Tony Stokes: I agree. I hate people making money off of their bodies and then bitching about it. He needs to get a clue. Cure cancer lately, Kit?
Lawrence Gisonda
jerk
Xzamilio
I love it… stop digging, Kit, and just climb out of that hole. I understand what he’s saying, but it’s so first world problem that it just makes him sound so vapid.
Low Country Boy
@Xzamilio: Vapid is the best term. Thank you, Sir!
Joe T
The comments on here are exactly why I find the gay community an embarrassment. He was not being arrogant or a jerk. His point is valid. Just because someone is “in the business” does not mean they owe us anything. Not everyone wants to go around shirtless or naked all the time. It’s demeaning and objectifying. Sorry, Kit. Ignore them. We’re not all like “them”.
jimh
Two things. First, it’s never well received when one complains about the burdens of fame, wealth, good looks, or any other highly prized attribute. Ever. So, for me, this confirms my suspicion that Kit isn’t so clever: otherwise, he’d understand the social rules and would state his point more gracefully.
Second, I think he’s the wrong man to complain about objectification. If Colin Firth were the one being asked to take off his shirt, then yeah, I’d see the complaint. He’s a talented actor with an impressive body of work. It would be demeaning to disregard that. But Kit Harrington? Looks are what got him into the business, and for now, they’re the only relevant asset he’s got.
Victor Barry
I’ll trade problems with him.
Carl McClanahan
sad, just so sad
Random
I do think he has a point. People never really stop and think about the negative consequences of objectification and just assume it’s fine to openly appraise someone’s physicality for their own gratification. In reality, though, I don’t think there are many people that really want to be valued only (or mainly) for their looks, no matter how much they were being paid.
Stache99
This whining about fame has already been done over and over. Johnny Depp did it for many years.
Rick Collier
If we didn’t put emphasis on age and beauty then what would that leave him: A nine to five at the Cheesecake Factory! Count your blessings dude and take your shirt off!
Stache99
@Xzamilio: You have no idea what people like me and kit have to put with. Most everyone considers me to be drop dead gorgeous and I just get sick and tired of people with no class looking at me like a piece of meat. Every time I go out to a club or bar it’s “take it off”. How fucking rude and tactless is that? Buy me a couple drinks first at least.
Billy Budd
Shut up and take off your trousers. No whining.
enfilmigult
@jimh: Yeah, I think you nailed it.
stranded
Everrrybody hurrrrrrts
Joseph Smelser
You know nothing John Snow!
Allie Pocket
Tracy Pope
@Stache99: Go to classier bars?
Kit Harrington: Be a good enough actor that they don’t ask you to take your shirt off. In interviews discuss something besides your self. Be interesting.
Xzamilio
@Stache99: I hope you’re joking because I just do not care.
Stache99
Sarcasm…:-)
Xzamilio
@Stache99: Sorry… sarcasm is hard to detect on this board lol
tdh1980
If one doesn’t want to be judged for saying stupid things, then he probably should stop saying stupid things. Female objectification is detrimental because it speaks to the issue of sexism which is part of the larger problem of lack of structural power for women. A man may not fancy being ogled, but at the end of the day he’ll still be treated as a person of more value, generally speaking, than his female counterpart.
Bauhaus
@tdh1980:
“A man may not fancy being ogled, but at the end of the day he’ll still be treated as a person of more value, generally speaking, than his female counterpart.”
Yes, intrinsically and financially.
@Victor Barry:
You’re a funny funny man.
stanhope
Girl please….when you get to Marilyn Monroe or Jayne Mansfield or Sophia Loren or Elizabeth Taylor status then call….til then just STFU. You aren’t Jan Michael Vincent in his prime nor Montgomery Clift or even Troy Donahue.
Soupy
You know who this is insensitive to? People like me who would give anything to have one day of being so good looking that someone wanted to objectify you and see you naked. It’s like complaining that you’re hungry in the face of the starving kids in Africa.
markgtx11
This guy needs to have a special effects department put him in a fat suit and make his face less attractive with prothstetics. Then he should spend 72 hours going out into the real world and see how differently he is treated by society.
Take that reality and multiply it by ten and he might get an idea of how women and gay men who are not famous or not considered conventionally attractive are made to feel every day.
Count your blessings.
Will L
Yes, that’s how it is, but he should enjoy it while he can. Before he knows it, he’ll just be an actor with no looks and no talent.
Captain Obvious
Supposedly doesn’t want to be objectified so he works hard to get noticed in the one mainstream profession where mean are objectified.
Whatever, girl. Shut up and take your pants off.
tllthn89
He’s a nice looking guy. Love his dark curly hair. But I liked the shirtless pic query posted a few weeks ago better 😉 lol.
I think he’s probably right about the point he’s trying to make. But if I were him I would just enjoy it. Have fun man.
Brandyn Massin
Oh boo hoo. -_-
NeoFeminista Auntie Meggie
oh shut the fuck up kit
Brandon Humphries
That’s some Regina George shit right there. You won the genetic lottery, its one of the consequences. And your ass wouldn’t be working at all if it weren’t for that face, let’s be honest. His acting talent ain’t anything to write home about.
Adrian Michael Ornelas
i think he is really overly sensitive, but i would feel the same way about a woman who complained about that aswell
Bradley Swallowz
When somebody calls you a hunk, that’s flattery. When you call yourself one, it’s conceited.
JaredNorthcutt30
This thread is exhibit A in why I’m turning into an asexual black woman. Stop thinking with your penises, ya’ll. You do have an actual brain that functions, no?
JaredNorthcutt30
Oh please, tdh1980. Objectification is objectification at this point. The end result is psychological damage on another human being in the social paradigm. It’s the same masculinist construct which enslaved ‘gay men’ as ‘boys.’ And now, fast-forward 20 years later, the heteronormative masculinist construct has embedded itself in the gay community. The same people who were targeted ‘sissies’ are now sitting on a throne coming after the less-thans for being sissies. To quote Candy Darling, ‘you might say I’m bored to death’ at this point.
JaredNorthcutt30
I’ll say this as well. It also starts with the .001 percent of the ‘beautiful gay assimilationists’ labeling themselves as meat. I know it’s a chicken or the egg type of situation. But if you constantly go around with your titties out, people are going to view you as constantly going around with your titties out.
Leigh Diveris
Helen J Lee Jon Snow was sad
Gert van Veen
Please sing another tune