I read the article too, and thought its villainization of the women who lust after Adam was creepy, especially because the article didn't even try to pretend not to be a big misogyny party. Every other paragraph had something ugly to say about Adam's female fans-- the "entitled" and publicly inappropriate Midwestern women; the sinister army of bras; that throwaway line where they made sure to point out that Adam's kicks weren't "girlie".
I think you're completely right about what the photo series is trying to illustrate. The woman in the pictures is objectifying Adam, and if you look at the martyred faces he's pulling, she's victimizing him too. What pissed me off me about the photoshoot in tandem with the article was seeing an already disturbingly objectified prop model being framed as a sexual predator. She might be on her back and naked, but she's clearly the criminal here. In the context of an article that describes teenage girls and their moms as "groupies", I can't see this as a subversion of the traditional woman-as-object scene, just a reinforcement of the same old shit. For bonus girl-hating points, it's just as invested in _vilifying women as it is in dehumanizing them.
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I think you're completely right about what the photo series is trying to illustrate. The woman in the pictures is objectifying Adam, and if you look at the martyred faces he's pulling, she's victimizing him too. What pissed me off me about the photoshoot in tandem with the article was seeing an already disturbingly objectified prop model being framed as a sexual predator. She might be on her back and naked, but she's clearly the criminal here. In the context of an article that describes teenage girls and their moms as "groupies", I can't see this as a subversion of the traditional woman-as-object scene, just a reinforcement of the same old shit. For bonus girl-hating points, it's just as invested in _vilifying women as it is in dehumanizing them.