Here's the April cover for GQ and all I could think was, "Damn! You can practically see Adriana Lima's va-jay-jay?" And in the video of the shooting of this cover, you can see even more of Adriana in the buff on some beach with her leaf and a loin cloth. I also thought it even more suggestive that the line next to Adriana's head is "Turn over a new leaf." Well, if girlfriend turns that leaf literally we'll get an eyeful.
Now granted this is GQ's sex & love issue, but can you see how different a men's fashion magazine and a woman's magazine do the covers of their sex & love issues. When can we see a Glamour or Vogue sex & love issue with a provocative looking David Beckham or Gerard Butler? Where's the equal opportunity? Thinking off hand, when is the last time we saw any guy clothed or not on the cover of a woman's magazine? Anyone know?
And I'm sorry, Adriana just looks like an objectified sex object which I suppose is what GQ wanted or thinks that their audience wants. *ugh!* Stuff like this concerns me because GQ is a mainstream magazine and it is displayed on racks where young kids can see it. Again, how do you answer a 6-year-old who innocently asks, "Why is that lady naked?" As well, teenage girls see this and start to think that they need to look and act like this in order to be desired by men. It's an impossible standard. And teenage boys and young men see this, and think that this is the kind of girl they need to have in order to be cool.
The cover could have been more tastefully done yet still be sexy, had she at least had a bikini bottom on or some slinky summer dress. Am I the only one who thinks this? I'd especially like to know what the guys think of this cover. Is it hot or too much?
Theory: A man is happier in marriage if his wife is better looking than him
According to some lab coat experiment at the University of Tennessee on attractiveness and marital bliss:
So, if I got this correct in simple mathematical terms:
This story stood out to me because it relates to the back in skinny jeans fantasy, "When I'm thin, men will love me, adore me, and never leave me." So, scientifically these lab coats are thus proving that fantasy to be true on some level. It also speaks to the notion that men are happier in marriage when they have the trophy wife, so following this logic it explains why so many wives will spend tons of money to stay thin and young so they can keep their husbands.
But is that really a marriage but on solid ground? I think not, and that is what this study is missing, data on long term marital bliss because after awhile it doesn't matter who's better looking than whom. At the end of the day, you are two humans trying to make a marriage work over the years. Being a team is what matters.
I have had guy friends who had the trophy wife or girlfriend and ended up leaving more because the woman became way to high maintenance and was not supportive of him or their relationship, and same thing where the woman had a trophy guy. According to the book, The Millionaire Mind by Thomas J. Stanley, millionaire men who married women based more on the content of her character stayed married to that woman for an average of 30 years or more (basically a lifetime) and the key qualities of their wife were: honest, responsible, loving, intelligent, and supportive. Millionaire men who married women based more on her looks and image tended to have a higher rate of divorce and more stress in their lives due to marital issues.
At the end of the day, you know you have a keeper when you come home after having a rotten failure of a day, and your sweetie sees this, takes you in their arms and says to you, "Everything is going to be okay. You're going to be okay. You're wonderful in my eyes, and I love you."
Posted by Stephanie Quilao on Mar 25, 2008 in Skinny commentary & news | Permalink | Comments (15) | TrackBack (0)
Tags: attractiveness, marriage, studies, University of Tennessee
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