Glee GQ cover 'borders on paedophilia'

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In summary: Come here rude boy, boy ...Rude boy is a song by Barbadian singer Rihanna. The song was written by Johan Renck, StarGate and Rohan Sippy, with production being handled by StarGate. "Rude Boy" is a electro-dance song with a "thumping" beat. The song...In summary, the Parents Television Council is outraged over a GQ cover featuring scantily-clad Glee stars. Corey Monteith, who is 28 and Dianna Agron and Lea Michele, who are both 24, appear on the front of the November issue with their hands on the bottoms of the co-stars. The PTC has called the shoot "border
  • #71
TheStatutoryApe said:
Sorry, I'm kinda tired, just wanted to say..

"Rudeboy" is a common term for fans of ska and "pick it up" is a common phrase used in connection to skanking, the common style of dance to ska music. Either way, if your kid hears "get it up" and thinks of erections then the damage was already done my friend.

Exactly.

Like I said, I doubt kids take much notice of the lyrics and at most will be able to regurgitate them, parrot style. If they truly understand what their talking about (let's face it they had to be translated in this thread, what are the odds a child will know it?) then the damage is done.

I agree with TheStatutoryApe.
 
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  • #72
TheStatutoryApe said:
Sorry, I'm kinda tired, just wanted to say..

"Rudeboy" is a common term for fans of ska and "pick it up" is a common phrase used in connection to skanking, the common style of dance to ska music. Either way, if your kid hears "get it up" and thinks of erections then the damage was already done my friend.

lol. :biggrin:

I knew she is innocent...

Edit: I thought that artists can use metaphors, but apparently they don't.
 
  • #73
TheStatutoryApe said:
Sorry, I'm kinda tired, just wanted to say..

"Rudeboy" is a common term for fans of ska and "pick it up" is a common phrase used in connection to skanking, the common style of dance to ska music. Either way, if your kid hears "get it up" and thinks of erections then the damage was already done my friend.

You may be right about the fandom of the tern "rude-boy" in Ska, but it's a Jamaican slang term that made its way into music, mostly through reggae.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rude_Boy

Probably, and just guessing, this made it into the song because of Rihanna? (Barbados is pretty close)
 
  • #74
nismaratwork said:
You may be right about the fandom of the tern "rude-boy" in Ska, but it's a Jamaican slang term that made its way into music, mostly through reggae.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rude_Boy

Probably, and just guessing, this made it into the song because of Rihanna? (Barbados is pretty close)

It is similar to the word punk. Some people call people punks as an insult, to others, it is a term that identifies with a subculture and musical style which they will proudly call themselves. The term originally meant a novice criminal.

Pick it up specifically refers to your feet when you skank.
 
  • #75
jackmell said:
As usual, people miss the point with stuff like this and you could have posted the picture so we didn't have to go lookin' for it. We have a mis-representation of reality in that picture: the actors are actually 20-something and as 20-something, I don't think it's an inappropriate picture given the sex-obsessed culture we live in. However, they portray teenagers in Glee and I think teenagers in that pose would be inappropriate.

All that picture is doing is contributing to what I think is a terrible trend in society: seducing teens into early sexual activity.

The picture does not border on pedaphellia and I'm not even gonna' bother to look up the spellin.

Now I understand and wish for the record to change my opinion about this matter: the pictures depict little teenage high-school girls in sexually suggestive poses and what makes it border on pedaphellia is the fact that these pictures appear in an adult gentleman's magazine. I should have known better the parenting group knew what they were talking about. However it's not something I with to talk about further so forgive me if someone calls me on this and I do not reply.
 
  • #76
As I said Jackmell, people will see what they want to see.

I see two twenty plus girls posing in some provactive pics wearing uniform. Nothing wrong with that, no more so than any other adult media which depicts a person in a school uniform. I see the choice to use uniform being because they are from Glee (and it's the theme).

The boy isn't exactly in any pic I'd consider remotely pornographic.

Got the entire photo shoot here: http://www.gq.com/entertainment/movies-and-tv/201011/glee-photos-rachel-quinn-finn#slide=1
 
  • #77
jackmell said:
Now I understand and wish for the record to change my opinion about this matter: the pictures depict little teenage high-school girls in sexually suggestive poses and what makes it border on pedaphellia is the fact that these pictures appear in an adult gentleman's magazine. I should have known better the parenting group knew what they were talking about. However it's not something I with to talk about further so forgive me if someone calls me on this and I do not reply.

Thats bull. Media shouldn't let sanctimonious pricks dictate their content. Pedophilia my ***.
 
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  • #78
I'll ask again: How old are the characters in the glee show supposed to be?
 
  • #79
Pedophilia happens in reality, not in someone's thoughts, which is called imagination. If that line of "reasoning" continues sooner or later people will go to jail for looking at someone with evil eye.
 
  • #80
Upisoft said:
Pedophilia happens in reality, not in someone's thoughts, which is called imagination. If that line of "reasoning" continues sooner or later people will go to jail for looking at someone with evil eye.

The only pedophiles in this case are the ones who see the image bordering pedophilia.
 
  • #81
DanP said:
The only pedophiles in this case are the ones who see the image bordering pedophilia.

Even they are not pedophiles. They are just very confused people having no idea where is the border between imagination and reality
 

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