Writes Jennifer Wilson, in "The Shareable Feast of Jeremy Allen White’s Calvin Klein Ad/The frenzy surrounding the 'Bear' star’s beefcake ad harks back to the brand’s heyday in the eighties and nineties" (The New Yorker).
Some of the ads use still photography. And here's the live-action commercial, replete with Lesley Gore soundtrack denying someone the power to deprive another person of the right to "go with other boys":
Here's the most graphic — and thought-provoking — of the still ads. Maybe you live where you're seeing that as a billboard.
The day the billboard was unveiled, a friend texted me to say that she was going to stop by on her way from work to see the actor’s flesh in the flesh. “8-foot dick. Every girl’s fantasy,” she joked.
Speaking of size, the beautiful actor, in real life, is 5'7". You'd have to add the length of an average "dick" to that to get him to the minimum height that women using dating apps seem to insist upon.
Somehow the desire to look up to a man takes precedence over the desire to look at him.
ADDED: Remember when "You Don't Own Me" was an Obama ad?At the time, I said, "consider the lyrics and the extent to which they express the values of the present-day Democratic Party." I thought it sounded libertarian:
I'm young and I love to be young
I'm free and I love to be free
To live my life the way I want
To say and do whatever I please
That wasn't written by Gore or any woman "It was written by 2 men, John Madara (who also wrote "At the Hop") and David White (who co-wrote "At the Hop" and was a member of the doo-wop group Danny & the Juniors who recorded "At the Hop")."
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Ewww
Don't let the height fool you.
I have owned Calvin Klein tighty whiteys. I don't have any pictures, but I'm very sure I don't look like that when I wear them. Pity. Thus my decision to stick with Hanes.
"heyday in the eighties and nineties"
No wonder the wine aunts at the New Yorker are going wild.
Everything old is new again.
White privilege? In name, and, coincidentally, color, too.
I guess what was really meant by the "you don't own me" ad is Republicans didn't own them, Democrats did. Seems like Democrats have acted accordingly since then.
The Left exists in a testosterone desert of sorts. With a preponderance of effeminate men mincing to and fro, it’s no wonder their womenfolk thirst for any image of what they’re missing.
I think I'm supposed to ew but I approve of not denying hetero sexuality. Female firmware is ingrained to respond to a nice ingunal crease. Who cares if he looks like a dirty Adrian Brody? The underwear is clean...and flattering.
"Don't tell me what to do and Don't tell me what to say"
That's what I sing to myself when I get another email from the University (i.e., from Democrats) telling me about some new initiative to "help".
Mark Wahlberg, a Calvin Klein ad model in the early 90s, is also short.
"She'll give you a blow job in a port-a-potty ..."
White is just a white dude, so it's ok to grossly objectify him with language they'd never print about a woman.
I note that presidential candidates Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich were each asked what underwear they wore, and gave very different answers. Both have been criticized for the way they answered. I've done so within the past week.
Publicly airing briefs of a non-legal sort in these comments with such a history might be deemed hypocritical. All I can say is that I am too old to be anything other than an open book. I am not upholding the dignity of any public office. I do ask my undies to stay upheld. I say, let elastic waistbands stretch to meet the needs of the wearers.
"I'm young and I love to be young
I'm free and I love to be free
To live my life the way I want
To say and do whatever I please"
Wow, nice life vision. An amazing feeling, I'm sure.
Until the bondage of the consequences of one's bad decisions start to take over, then you lose your freedom and lose your ability to live the way you want.
Wait, so this dude wants to be free to date other boys?
Alright, I admit it. It was a mistake. Civilization, I mean. We should have stuck with the caves.
Meanwhile...
Calvin Klein ad with singer FKA twigs banned for making her ‘stereotypical sexual object’
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/jan/10/calvin-klein-ad-with-singer-fka-twigs-banned-for-making-her-stereotypical-sexual-object
Adrien Brody called, to report that his nose was stolen.
"in real life, is 5'7"
Bummer. No chance on dating apps then. Handsome starts at 6'0".
He’s adorable, the definition of ‘small but perfectly formed.’
He looks like he smells bad. Certainly not the only actor in that category.
"Alright, I admit it. It was a mistake. Civilization, I mean. We should have stuck with the caves."
Women would have been fine with that. Seriously. The history and edifice of civilization is a horny dude's/dudes' missal to the cackling cave ladies and their id-beasts to stop gossiping about Oog's-ability-to-kill-Snarg-with-heap-big-rock-and-hunt-mammoth-good and actually focus on things that might make everyone's life better.
I shit you not. Women would have been fine with that.
Huh. I've enjoyed watching The Bear, but I had no idea this guy was a - what was the term? Sex symbol?
I will say, not apropos of this guy, who looks as if his every sprig of facial or body hair has been carefully chosen to make him look like an uncaring visceral man-beast (IOW, he looks very groomed to me, just groomed dirty, so to speak), I love it when my husband forgets his razor when we go on vacation. I've been trying to get him to grow back his beard for decades...
I wonder about fathers who are in adverts showing their bodies like this. What do you tell your kids? I guess you could just show them the bank balance.
He has BDE for such a tiny guy. Surprised that wasn't mentioned in the description.
CK rediscovers having attractive people in ads. Remember when companies did that all the time?
I don't think of 5'7" as short for a man.
This is about the 25th percentile for height. Is that short? Seems like it should be more of an outlier to be considered short.
Incidentally, in looking that up, I found out that my height is above the female average. That's wild. I've always considered myself relatively short.
Nevermind--that chart was wrong. I shall not be towering around town, lording my newly appreciated height over everyone.
Rehajm,
Thanks for the term "inguinal crease" back in my youth, I fondly remember a girl commenting, "I love your Ken lines."
I was referring to the link Ann provided:
"A survey from Bumble found that 60% of women indicate that they are looking for a man over 6 feet tall in their search filters. However, that number drops steeply as the height of men lowers. 30% of women want to date men who are 5'11" and only 15% of women are willing to date men who are 5'8" or shorter."
Killer bod but not the handsomest face in the world.
That's why the illegals come to America. For the underwear.
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