Provided with an example above, the left side magazine cover is published on August, 2011, and the right magazine cover is published on March, 2009.Notice! This is just an example out from thousands of your magazine covers; I would want to point out some mistakes GQ magazine had made.
First of all, I would want to state out some difference between the two magazine cover. The right magazine displayed a man with necktie, and is fully clothed and the expression of his face showed an impression of men’s authority and punctiliousness. On the other side Mila Kunis was wearing a transparent blouse with black underwear and her face expression was also very different from the man on the other cover, as if she is a naughty prostitute. Also, I found out the language you are using are very different from this two different cover, and the interesting thing is that all the cover that have a woman on it the language is most likely to be dirty and erotic, and the pictures are always shot in overtly salacious poses in a state of semi-undress. On the other hand, all the cover that has a man on it, the language is apparently serious, and conscientious, and the photo is always fully clothed up and mostly with a nice suit. I would want the editor of GQ magazine to give a reason for it or is it just the editor who are not aware of your magazine has strongly offense the whole woman population in the United State or other nations all around the world.
In the above magazine cover I am referring to, the cover which has a shot of Justin Timberlake on, its face expression is trying to show the authority of man, and if a person is wearing a suit It is usually regarded as a successful person and what GQ is trying to say is that man are always the top leaders since they are the person who fits the formal suit. The headings of the cover is trying to tell what should a man do, such as a man should dress up stylish to show that they are a “man”, man should have a high class business wardrobe to appear successful of being a man, and that man should be risk takers to show that they are “man”. Other from this cover I’ve also found out in some other GQ magazine’s men covers, there are also heading concerning about the politics, education or world’s top brand (such as Armani or Versace). Is the GQ magazine trying to tell us that only man deserves all this high education, politic status, and a greater possibility to be successful?
Let’s look at the other magazine cover; the face expression of the woman here is somewhat a naughty and sexy girl who wants to please a man’s sexual desire. There are thousands of successful woman all around the world and they are not just famous because they have a nice body or they are able to take their cloth of in front of the camera. The language used in the cover of this magazine is somehow vulgar. Such as “THE JACKASSIEST COLLEGES IN AMERICA” or “We make Mila Kunis laugh with our (sexier than usual) comedy issue”. When it comes to woman, there are more inappropriate language used, is the editor trying to show the reader that a woman’s value only depends on how sexy she can’t be, but now how woman could also be as successful as man?
I will be assuming that the editor for GQ magazine is a sexist for the reason that all your magazines show obvious gender inequality. If so, I would want to let you know that woman are not just there to please man’s sexual desire, or that woman will only be attractive without their cloth on. In fact there are millions of successful woman around the world, such as Hilary Clinton, Anne Lauvergeon, or Katherine L. Adams, or some actress such as Emma Watson or Natalie Portman; both of them have enrolled in the top ranked university. In addition, I think the editor of the GQ magazine should be aware of that at now a days, the percentage of women enrolled in university is 51 percent whereas the man has only 37 percent, this data shows us that woman are literally saying, smarter than man and I believe that woman should receive their equality.
I hope you will take this letter seriously and will be able to make a change after reading this letter, by altering your direction, I assure your magazine will have a better reputation rather than considered as a magazine which look down at the status of woman. In doing so, you will eventually helped the world to advocate gender equality and to show that GQ magazine treats everyone who belongs to this earth the respects and dignity that they deserved.
Yours faithfully
Amy Hsin