Manblogging

Episode 2: Go Ahead and Touch Me

December 13, 2006

So what you have are hot guys in fishnet belly-shirts and eye-liner fretting about what their buds in the locker room or the folks back home in Palookaville will think when they see the show, while the cameraman is told to pan down to a crotch shot.

It’s this weird dance that’s going on. At some moments, I think, ‘Get over it, hottie. Just because you wear a kilt doesn’t make you a sodomite,’ and other moments I feel like the poor hunks are being excessively objectified, like I want to say to the production team, ‘How ‘bout you just cop a feel of Hunter’s package and get it over with.’

On “Top Model,” for all of Tyra’s nutty narcissism, there’s a part of her that seems cares about the girls and wants to help them succeed. The “Manhunt” folks just want to get the guys in their undies as soon and as often as possible. Not that I have a problem with that.

Speaking of showing skin, can we all agree that nothing is gayer than the shot of all the guys in their tighty-whities and boots walking toward the camera in a long kick line. This shot is straight out of a Falcon Video Pac, I believe it’s number 69.