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What would it be like to live in a world where Michael Fassbender got the same recognition as his cock? I wonder…

The thing is, I’m not really into Fassbender…or his penis. :P

Both reached the saturation point for moi…yep.

I understand. I most…

Maybe Fassbender should try not taking his clothes off in every photoshoot he does? I don’t know. Sometimes I think that, deep down, he’s really proud that everybody is talking about his penis or his body. He could always say “look, not going to talk about this anymore, I’m promoting my new film, blah blah”, but sometimes it seems he just adds fuel to the fire, imo.

Plus, sometimes people talk as if he were the first actor brave enough to do a full frontal - like he was a pioneer or something, and was punished by the Academy because of it. Which is BS. Male nudity is not that uncommon in films, so I never understood all that fuss about his nudity in Shame. :-\ 

Wow, are we ever in agreement on the photoshoot business. I don’t honestly believe he’s so dumb and malleable that a photographer can say, “Maybe, I don’t know…you prop your foot up and I shot your crotch?” that his response is “Um, duh, OK, if you say so!” He’s a current sex symbol, and milking it for all it’s worth. Unfortunately, you can’t expect everyone to be an adult and take you seriously after that. Maybe grandmas weren’t all wrong when they told you to not wear too much rouge, and to sit like a proper lady.

(And the Oscar/Shame brew-haha? I remained quiet during that because I honestly don’t give a shit if you’re nominated or not.)

Exactly. Agree with everything, my dear. ;)

When you reach a point in your career, you have a certain amount of power to say: “not going to do another naked photoshoot, thank you. Enough. I’m promoting my sci-fi film here.”

There’s nothing wrong with nudity, of course; but I like the idea of limits, and good sense. Sometimes Fassbender seems too eager to achieve a certain status too quickly, and he loves the adulation even if he tries to be all modest about it. Just my humble opinion…

Also, the hypocrisy of our society baffles me. If it were a woman promoting her films with one “bare all” photoshoot after the other, or talking about her vagina in each and every interview she did, things would be really different. An actor like Fassbender is seen as “brave”. An actress would probably be called a whore. Sad.

You know, we’ve butted heads a lot and frankly I find your Charles comments completely nonsensical and your, um, “dedication” to James McAvoy kind of scary, but I actually agree with a lot of what you’ve said here (minus the anti-Fassbender tone). Fassbender has incredible publicists because he wants the spotlight. And it’s worked, a YEAR ago no one knew who he was and now he’s one of the most sought-after actors in Hollywood. I really adore him, I think he’s a brilliant actor. But I often feel like a lot of this attention came not only from the fact that he’s attractive, but that his penis is pretty impressive and bared several times for all to see in Steve McQueen’s movies. For a time I was getting annoyed that this is all that people were seeing of him, and thought that if *I* was getting ticked, he must be extremely sick of it.

But you raise good points about his choice of photography. There’s the famous shot of him opening his jeans to reveal a significant lack of underwear underneath. Then there’s the recent GQ one which involves him in highly sexualized poses with a model. It’s a strange paradox, this actor who wants to be seen for his talent (and talented, is he ever). He’s not the one bringing up his genitalia in interviews, it’s everyone else making the comments and he’s being good-natured about it. It’s got to tick him off that he’s dealing with  “Seneca’s beard syndrome” but you’re right when you say that the photos are not doing much to help his case. These types of shoots, as much as my lustful heart loves them, doesn’t really represent the message he seems to be trying to get across (“I am more than my penis”).

Also you make a really good point about men vs women. If a woman bared all in a film in a scene that wasn’t sexualized, and then went on to do nude photoshoots that bordered erotic, she’d be labeled a slut immediately and society would have a hard impossible time seeing her talent past her breasts. I’m not sure why our culture is so afraid of dicks that showing one warrants so much attention. How many times have we seen women do full-frontals in movies, TV shows? How many of those have actually shown a naked man without a conveniently-placed foreground object to hide his manhood? The second it happens it gets an article in a gossip rag or a “warning” in a review. It’s sad.

So, see I actually somewhat agree with you. Now don’t go and ruin this by hating on Fassbender needlessly for this reason. I am absolutely positive that if James McAvoy was doing the exact same thing you’d find a way to herald it as “brilliant”, “sensitive” and indeed, “brave”.