This is not the first time that daytime shows have peddled male flesh to the delight of their female viewers. I see a little of that happening, but it’s not disembodied women’s legs or comparing women to cars or all the other crap that happens on television all the time. I don’t see a lot of that happening in those videos. Objectification is reducing someone to less than human because we find them sexually attractive. “It’s OK to acknowledge a person is good-looking and that you want to do adult things to that person. “That’s kind of like saying none of our water should be polluted, but if we’re going to pollute the water, we should pollute it all equally,” she says. So, if we’re objectifying women, is it acceptable that we’re objectifying men? Angyal says that isn’t necessarily the case. “That there’s a continued discrepancy to get power and status for women would make a similar skit on Kimmel be not as funny.” This is a newer way for men to derive value though historically it was the only way for women to derive power or access to the public sphere and it continues to be a primary way for them to be valued by society,” says Amanda Lotz, an associate professor of communications as University of Michigan and the author of Cable Guys: Television and American Masculinities in the 21st Century. “We’re seeing men deriving value from their physical attributes. Does that make it all right? Just imagine the storm that would happen if Jimmy Kimmel had his female viewers send in videos of themselves in their underwear looking for a gig as his “gardener”. We’re laughing at these dudes on Ellen running around in their thongs and preening for the cameras as much as we’re lusting after them. “It’s daytime television so it’s aimed at married middle aged women, so it takes away a lot of the potential for the sex to ever be acted on … And it’s presented by America’s most visible lesbian, so that takes so much of the risk out of it … it takes a lot of the sex out of it.” “I think the context is really important,” says Chloe Angyal, who is a senior columnist at. We’ll be able to vote for the finalists starting 1 December.Īs an admirer of the partially nude male form I certainly enjoy these contests, but is it wrong? Are we making a mockery of these men by lusting after them? The show is, once again, hosting a male model search, complete with an America’s Next Top Model-style web show. Winner Robert Wilson was so good at his job that he’s now moved on to a role in Days of Our Lives. They found their first male spokesmodel (formerly called Barker’s Beauties) in 2012 with an online talent contest. The Price Is Right (which is still on and exactly the same as you remember it except it’s now hosted by Drew Carey and a “brand new car!” costs more than $10,000) has found itself in a similar predicament. She’s not the only one who is trying to recruit hunks. So far many men who know their way around a gym have chosen to submit themselves to audition for the job and Ellen has aired the best of the bunch, much to her audience’s delight. In his absence Ellen has been asking her pectacular viewers to post videos of themselves auditioning to be his stand-in on YouTube. Nick’s abs are so formidable that he’s landed a gig in the Magic Mike sequel.
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