GQ Controversy + Dianna's opinion

Raise your hand if you saw this one coming: The Parents Television Council has come down hard on a GQ Magazine photo shoot featuring the three leads of Fox’s ‘Glee,’ claiming that the cover and inside pictorial “borders on pedophilia.”

On the men’s magazine’s November cover, ‘Glee’ guy Cory Monteith poses with cast mates Dianna Agron and Lea Michele, his left hand situated on Michele’s almost-bare backside.

Other snaps from the shoot showcase Michele in barely-there underwear and knee socks, straddling a lock room bench in panties and a push-up bra, and posing “strict schoolteacher”-like in lingerie and heels and wielding a pointer that may as well be a riding crop.

Agron’s raciest attire, meanwhile, is the occasional satin bra and assorted pleated skirts.

The PTC calls the photo series “disturbing,” arguing that GQ, which targets an adult male audience, “is sexualizing the actresses who play high school-aged characters on ‘Glee.’”

Although both Michele and Agron are 24 in real life, PTC President Tim Winter derides GQ for delivering “the latest example of the overt sexualization of young girls in entertainment.”

“Many children who flocked to ‘High School Musical’ have grown into ‘Glee’ fans,” Winter says in his statement. “They are now being treated to seductive, in-your-face poses of the underwear-clad female characters posing in front of school lockers, one of them opting for a full-frontal crotch shot. By authorizing this kind of near-pornographic display, the creators of ['Glee'] have established their intentions on the show’s direction. And it isn’t good for families.”

The PTC then goes on – at considerable length – to posit that ‘Glee’ cocreator Ryan Murphy’s assumed approval of this photo shoot theme is part of some larger plan that the man who also gave TV ‘Nip/Tuck’ has “to remove every barrier to the depiction of explicit sex on TV.” But you can read that tangent at the PTC website, if you so desire.

Fox declined to comment for Fancast on the PTC’s criticisms, while GQ did not immediately respond to our email.

a Dianna respondeu no Tumblr

I’d like to start by saying that these are solely my thoughts on the November issue of GQ and the controversy that has surrounded its release. I am not a representative of the three of us, the show, or Fox, only myself.

In the land of Madonna, Britney, Miley, Gossip Girl, other public figures and shows that have pushed the envelope and challenged the levels of comfort in their viewers and fans…we are not the first. Now, in perpetuating the type of images that evoke these kind of emotions, I am sorry. If you are hurt or these photos make you uncomfortable, it was never our intention. And if your eight-year-old has a copy of our GQ cover in hand, again I am sorry. But I would have to ask, how on earth did it get there?

I was a very sheltered child, and was not aware of anything provocative or risque in the media while I was navigating through my formative years. When I was finally allowed to watch a movie like Grease, I did not even understand what on earth Rizzo was talking about!? I understand that in today’s world of advanced technology, the internet, our kids can be subject to very adult material at the click of a button. But there are parental locks, and ways to get around this. I am twenty-four years old. I have been a pretty tame and easy-going girl my whole life. Nobody is perfect, and these photos do not represent who I am. I am also not the girl who rolls out of bed with flawless makeup and couture clothing. I am most comfortable with my hair thrown on top of my head, in sweats, laughing with my friends. Glee is a show that represents the underdogs, which is a feeling I have embraced much of my own life, and to those viewers, the photos in GQ don’t give them that same feeling. I understand completely.

For GQ, they asked us to play very heightened versions of our school characters. A ‘Hit Me Baby One More Time’ version. At the time, it wasn’t my favorite idea, but I did not walk away. I must say, I am trying to live my life with a sharpie marker approach. You can’t erase the strokes you’ve made, but each step is much bolder and more deliberate. I’m moving forward from this one, and after today, putting it to rest. I am only myself, I can only be me. These aren’t photos I am going to frame and put on my desk, but hey, nor are any of the photos I take for magazines. Those are all characters we’ve played for this crazy job, one that I love and am so fortunate to have, each and every day. If you asked me for my dream photo shoot, I’d be in a treehouse, in a wild costume, war-paint and I’d be playing with my pet dragon. Until then…..


I Love Her *-*

ADOREI O TEXTO DELA.
mas pelo texto dela deu a entender que ela nao ficou muito satisfeita com o resultado do photoshoot nem com o que lhes pediram. a mim parece-me mais uma daquelas cenas em que nós nos "deixamos ir" e como não estamos sozinhos e tal (ela estava com o cory e com a lea) pensamos que nao vale a pena "resistir". pelo menos é a minha opiniao (e gostei das fotos xD)

ela fez pela serie, basicamente x)

é por isto que eu gosto tanto dela

eu gostei do texto dela porque acho que se estivesse na mesma situaçao teria feito o mesmo. a questão é que acho que o texto dela soa quase como um pedido de desculpas e, claro que isto é só na minha opinião, mas ela não tem de se desculpar por nada! ela nao tem de se desculpar e dizer que isto nao foi o que ela esperava nem que normalmente ela nao costuma estar tão produzida. ela tem 24 anos, pode fazer o que ela bem entender para uma revista que é de homens. e nao me venham com a conversa que glee é uma série para a família porque NÃO é. isto não é propriamente o high school musical: a série está CHEIA de referências sexuais. se os pais deixam que os miudos vejam, problema deles, muito sinceramente. isto é tudo uma cambada de puritanos, "ah coitadinhas das nossas criancinhas que adoram ver glee e agora as protagonistas aparecem meio despidas para uma revista... que escândalo".
além disso, a dianna não estava assim tão despida nem fez assim poses tão provadoras como a Lea (não que me queixe, claro xD).
resumindo: ela nao tinha absolutamente nada que se desculpar.

STANDING OVATION PARA A DIANNA

pretty fucking perfect.

sarz. escreveu:

pretty fucking perfect.

and that's how Sarz C's it 8D

puckle escreveu:

sarz. escreveu:

pretty fucking perfect.

and that's how Sarz C's it 8D

DEMAIS

puckle escreveu:

sarz. escreveu:

pretty fucking perfect.

and that's how Sarz C's it 8D

hahaha, (x

o mark tambem já falou disto o:

Citação :

“Personally, I think it’s not a big deal,” he tells 102.7 KIIS FM’s Jojo Wright. “… Lea has every right to do that.”

bibs escreveu:

o mark tambem já falou disto o:

Citação :

“Personally, I think it’s not a big deal,” he tells 102.7 KIIS FM’s Jojo Wright. “… Lea has every right to do that.”

ele so agradece xD

ainda bem que o cory não tem namorada. eu se fosse namorada dele nao o deixava aparecer numa capa de revista a agarrar o rabo de duas raparigas.

é assim, a ideia nao me agradou particularmente, mas depois de nos sentarmos e conversarmos bem sobre o assunto eu compreendi que era apenas trabalho portanto..

puckle escreveu:

a ideia nao me agradou particularmente

a mim agradou

puckle escreveu:

é assim, a ideia nao me agradou particularmente, mas depois de nos sentarmos e conversarmos bem sobre o assunto eu compreendi que era apenas trabalho portanto.. :D

és uma namorada trés compreensiva honey :b

bábs escreveu:

puckle escreveu:

é assim, a ideia nao me agradou particularmente, mas depois de nos sentarmos e conversarmos bem sobre o assunto eu compreendi que era apenas trabalho portanto..

és uma namorada trés compreensiva honey :b

i know right? alias, sao photoshoots como estas que mantem a chama acesa

ahahahah deixam-te louca xD

e depois claro, puckle tem aqueles sonhos (a)

quando lhe puseres a mão em cima, nem sei xD

AI NEM CONSIGO IMAGINAR

Queria só acrescentar isto que roubei do tumblr:

"10 Things The Cast Of Glee Has Done Worse Than GQ Magazine That Everyone Seemed To Approve Of:

thegleekspot:

Since the GQ magazine thing has been pissing me off to high heavens, I thought I’d point out some of the crazy oversexual things that our darling show does that we LOVE that is TOTALLY way worse than those GQ pics. People are flipping shit saying they don’t want their little kids to see the Glee cast posing in such a racy manner, but apparently the rest of the world approves of these things. This is just for fun, guys, don’t get your panties in a bunch.

1. Finn’s Mailman Incidents.

I find it hilarious that the same parents who don’t want their kids to see Lea Michele in underwear want to let their kids watch Finn REPEATEDLY jizz in his pants.

2. Quinn Fabray’s Teenage Pregnancy

Parents complain because their kids look up to the characters on the TV show, so seeing them in these pictures is degrading. Awesome, let your kids look up to Quinn, the church girl who got knocked up at 16 instead of having them know Dianna, the amazing person who I seriously feel can change the world with how big that girls heart is.

3. Push It. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOWJeYOyUT4 Need I say more? I hope your children enjoy the pelvic thrusting.

4. Toxic.

5. “Look, I dropped out of school when I was 14 to go fuck around with my friends and live a lifestyle of crime and pay no mind to authority figures.” -Cory Monteith

6. Lea Michele’s graphic topless sex scene in Spring Awakening. Lay off of her for wearing a bra in GQ, at least she’s wearing one. Take your kid to see Spring Awakening, maybe you can teach them the words to Totally Fucked.

7. Ryan Murphy’s “trailer sex ban”

8. The drunken U-Stream video from a few years ago.

9. Cory Monteith, butt naked, in “Bloody Mary”

10. Let’s go over some of the names people used to sign up for Glee with:

Butt Lunch
Penis
Assbraham Lincoln
Buttface McBallnuts

i will LAUGH when your kid calls the other kid on the playground buttface mcballnuts.

The point of this is, stop bitching about your kid seeing the Glee cast in underwear, they’re hot and I would love to stare at them in underwear all day. GLEE IS NOT FOR YOUR CHILD. LAY OFF. IF YOU LET YOUR KID WATCH GLEE, OBVIOUSLY YOU DON’T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THEM BEING EXPOSED TO SEXUAL STUFF. NOONE IS FORCING YOU TO WATCH IT. NOONE EVER SAID THIS SHOW AND ITS CAST MEMBERS WERE THE FOCUS OF YOUR FAMILY TV NIGHT. GO WATCH 7TH HEAVEN. KBYE."

AMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN