AIBU to be uncomfortable re pics of Liz Hurley's son?

[longwayoff]

They really are astonishing pictures, part of an ad campaign. He looks just like mum. I'm not keen. Please Google for ref, can't do link.

The age is interesting because I’m not sure I’d change my mind were he 18

I’m not even sure he was directed to do this, maybe he thought it fitted his look and everyone else thought brilliant because it will get people talking

He looks feminine

It’s extraordinary the lengths some people will go to ignore a feminist issue.

Meh, I also think they’re just effeminate. He was pretty effeminate as a child too.

Yeah,

its probably because hes got a fan blowing in his face

😂😂😂😂 hysterical

You couldn't make this shit up! Thats just nuts.

Why do a few completely deny whats right in front of their eyes, and then set out to deliberately gaslight others.... one wonders...indeed

It isn’t a few, though, is it? Quite a lot of us think it’s a lot of fuss about nothing at all.

Stop the speculation about his sex.

Whats concerning is his exploitation, through the obvious sexualisation.

How is he being exploited when he’s being well paid and getting the exposure thousands of people in his industry would kill for?

In the main dms do actually worry about their dc being sexualised, and exploited for it.

So i hope very much it's only the few that are into sexualising and exploitation of the underaged.

Fine you think fuss / nothing to talk about. Others want to talk about what images mean - not outraged

Having studied feminism and all this stuff I’m finding other people’s replies interesting

So high pay = not being exploited.

Another preposterous statement, in defence of exploitation of youths.

He looks feminine because he’s made up to look feminine and he’s acting out a female sexual stereotype.

It’s a parody used to sell cosmetics.

It is a feminist issue.

Safeguarding issues around those that speak like this.

Rubbinghimsweetly2, me too, neither find him handsome or beautiful. When I saw the clip this morning I though it was a send up, I just laughed.

It must be a send up, perhaps making fun of his mother, with all the pouting and posing.

@JaneJeffer
Who’s that? Very different photo. Not sexualised. Rather like this one of Pete burns. He was stunning and I fancied the pants off him back in the day.

Can people really not tell the difference??

Wow. That is really seriously weird and disturbing. It is as if he lives entirely in his mother's shadow, and the big hair shot made me feel really queasy. I am deeply uncomfortable about it too.

The whole soulmate description thing is not good either, she needs to find her own 'soulmate' and let him live his life and be his own person, not another version of her!

Liz has taken narcissism to a whole new level.

Sickening.

Isn't this just his version of Liz's safety pin dress?? You know...the one that made her famous? Everyone was talking about her then and they're talking about him AND her now!

I agree it's not the hair or makeup; it's the parted-lip, blow-job ready mouth expression that we are desensitised to seeing young female models (including teenage girls) being made to do. Even though nobody does this in conversation or on front of the camera in real life- if you're not smiling, talking, laughing or running your mouth is closed or barely open, generally. He looks like he should be in an ad for a webcam with the phone number across the bottom, only with less agency than those women have. Maybe more like one of those new generation silicone sex dolls.

Haven't RTFT but can't see how posters can be accused of being anti-LGBT when Damian hasn't come out - either as gay or trans - so any assumption he is either is on YOU, and presumably something you shouldn't be publicly speculating about in relation to a 17 year old boy.

I'm uncomfortable because it seems to me like he's desperately trying to emulate his mother and that is unusual for teenagers, who are usually trying to push their parents away and find their own identities, and therefore suggests a very strange relationship with his mother. When you add in the publicly available facts around his biological father's lack of interest in him (e.g. the paternity suit etc) it adds to the concern.

Looking at photos of male models- even images designed to appeal to the gay market- very few of them have parted but unsmiling lips and none of them really do the blowjob fish-mouth to this extent.

I'm uncomfortable because it seems to me like he's desperately trying to emulate his mother and that is unusual for teenagers, who are usually trying to push their parents away and find their own identities, and therefore suggests a very strange relationship with his mother.

I agree. Dh has a niece who is a mini me of sil - she absolutely worships her dm: same clothes, same hairdo, etc etc. It is an absolutely weird relationship. Of course in an ideal world teens get on with their parents, but anyone dressing up as them (whatever gender/sex) sets an alarm bell ringing.

(Mind boggles at dressing up as my mum: nice Country Casuals outfit, comfy Hotter shoes and a beige mac...)