GQ magazine is taking some heat for putting some of the cast members from Glee on their cover in, shall we say, risque clothing?
Actresses Lea Michele and Dianna Agron pose on the cover with fellow castmate Cory Monteith, but its Michele and Agron who are causing the stir with their sultry expressions and skimpy clothing.
The heat is coming from the Parents Television Council. They're concerned that a show about teenagers shouldn't take those same teenage characters and plaster them on a magazine in sexy outfits.
Fox has responded with a pretty good argument in my book:
They're not teenagers in real life, duh.
Now, to be fair, I can see what the PTC is upset about. This is a show with teenagers in it, and as such, it is a little disturbing to see these actors pumping up the sex appeal. And GQ is definitely using the naughty schoolgirl approach to help the magazines fly off the shelves.
That being said, they're actors. Should they be forced to lock away their sexuality until their time on Glee is finished? What if they play other roles? What if they play characters that are actually the same age they are--meaning, mid to late twenties?
More than anything, I'm shocked that the PTC finds Glee to be a "family" show. Characters on the show have had sex, discussed sex, and worn their fair share of skimpy outfits. The Britney Spears episode featured one gyrating dance number after another.
Glee is trying to represent high school today in America, and high school students today in America are a little too sexed up.
That being said, not many of them read GQ...
Actresses Lea Michele and Dianna Agron pose on the cover with fellow castmate Cory Monteith, but its Michele and Agron who are causing the stir with their sultry expressions and skimpy clothing.
The heat is coming from the Parents Television Council. They're concerned that a show about teenagers shouldn't take those same teenage characters and plaster them on a magazine in sexy outfits.
Fox has responded with a pretty good argument in my book:
They're not teenagers in real life, duh.
Now, to be fair, I can see what the PTC is upset about. This is a show with teenagers in it, and as such, it is a little disturbing to see these actors pumping up the sex appeal. And GQ is definitely using the naughty schoolgirl approach to help the magazines fly off the shelves.
That being said, they're actors. Should they be forced to lock away their sexuality until their time on Glee is finished? What if they play other roles? What if they play characters that are actually the same age they are--meaning, mid to late twenties?
More than anything, I'm shocked that the PTC finds Glee to be a "family" show. Characters on the show have had sex, discussed sex, and worn their fair share of skimpy outfits. The Britney Spears episode featured one gyrating dance number after another.
Glee is trying to represent high school today in America, and high school students today in America are a little too sexed up.
That being said, not many of them read GQ...
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