Cover Boys: Craig, Clooney and Damon for Vanity Fair

Oh, who cares. We know our kittens and they’re all about the visuals. Well, here you go, ladies and lady-boys. Bathe in the fauxtesterone:
Daniel Craig, George Clooney and Matt Damon cover the February 2012 issue of Vanity Fair magazine photographed by Annie Leibovitz and styled by Jessica Diehl.
George Clooney wants to come back as his dog, because “he lives better.” Matt Damon is happiest “in our bed, making our children, and in the hospital watching them being born.” Daniel Craig’s most treasured possessions: “Apart from my penis and my health?”

We’ll leave it to y’all to dissect the meanings behind these utterances. Us? We’re all about objectifying men:




Clooney’s serving up Clooney and Craig is giving his standard face, but Damon hasn’t looked that hot in ages.

Red Meat: Vanity Fair’s Official 2012 Republican Beefcake Calendar

Is it hot in here or is it just…G.O.P.? Regard, the right-wing dreamboats selected out of veritable dozens for the Vanity Fair second annual pinup calendar. There’s an elephant in the room and it’s our feelings! Are we blushing? Our face, and ballot, is all red...I know its a little much but I had to share once I found this!

Lady Gaga Cries for Her Gays, Used to Put a Lot of ‘Judy’ Up Her Nose

Mother Monster is a friend of Dorothy and former drug addict, just like Judy! In Vanity Fair‘s latest issue, Stefani Germanotta gets the cover story treatment from writer Lisa Robinson, and it’s a doozy.

When she’s not showing her nipples to Tony Bennett or wearing two-foot-tall platform heels in East Village laundromats, she’s crying about her poor bullied gays and talking about how “Judy” was a codename she and her friends used to call cocaine.

Rob Lowe: Vanity Fair

Justin Bieber and Vanity Fair

Ok, Vanity Fair did it Justin Bieber on the cover and on the inside of the issue.  For some reason this one sits oddly for me.  Maybe it is the idea of promoting Justin as a sex symbol for 2011.  For me the problem is he is only sixteen years old.  Now i am not being a prude because I am sure for many young girls he is a stud, but does that justify a cover for a fashion magazine?  Maybe it is my generation growing up with Tigerbeat Magazine.  You have to be a certain age to remember Tigerbeat and its photo shoots of all the up and coming hotties and the centerfolds we could hang in our bedrooms of Shawn Cassidy.

But Tigerbeat was geared towards teenagers, about teenagers not Vanity Fair.  Maybe I am old fashioned but are we as "general consumers" expected to by into Beiber as a model of sex appeal at sixteen?  Granted many others in his age range have been used as sex symbols but I don't believe it was for "mass consumption".

Why do I even bring any of this up?  For some it could be a BIG warning sign that we are destined for what is happening already in fashion.  That the thirteen to eighteen year old waif model is the ideal for many women the planet over.  That no woman can live up to that ideal of the under one hundred pound teen girl fashion model unless she is a teen girl as well. 

Could this kind of thing also happen for men?  That the teen age boy becomes the role model for men the planet over?  What does Justin himself think about any of this?  What do his parents think or say about all of it?  What affect does being a sixteen year old sex symbol do to your self confidence and ego?  Will aging play out a huge part of Justin's emotional undoing?  Some say yes, some would say look what fame did to the childhhod of someone like Michael Jackson.

Don't get me wrong I am not saying what has happened is wrong or even right it just seems unusual for a major magazine to promote a sixteen year old as a a sex symbol, or have I missed the others?  Well until next time I am so glad we had this time together.