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

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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.

However, I don't need him to be a mini-me, to validate me, to follow in my footsteps or for him to be my best friend. Quite happy for him to be his own person and forge his own path

Who says Liz Hurley doesn’t feel the same?

Well that's me told.

not everyone knows HOW to do links

That's why MN have placed helpful instructions on every thread, surely Literally anyone who is savvy enough with technology to get on to MN, and who can read English, can do links. Unless, as I said, they're too lazy to learn how to.

Who says Liz Hurley doesn’t feel the same?

😂

I did wonder about a 17 year old boy photographed looking like his Mum.
I thought they were a bit awkward-
and for the record I have felt uncomfortable about how Kaia Gerber has be sexualised as a young woman and there has been criticism of her portrayal as well-to be fair she is 16 here to his 17...
www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/chanel-model-kaia-gerber-teenager-new-ad-campaign-criticism-designer-fashion-a8287726.html

SarahConnor No they're not meant to be tongue in cheek or silly.

They're meant to appeal to the younger generation. The kind that's into Jeffree Star

I think he looks more like his "father" than his Mum actually, his hair is really the only thing that looks like his Mum.

I think 'astonished' is the word of the month on MN at the moment. Lots of threads and posts about being 'astonished' about stuff.

The giant hair looks absolutely ridiculous

Sad that we only comment on the pouty-bollocks that women models are expected to produce when a man does the same.

The whole video is a bit fetish-y but them’s the times we live in.

Incidentally- I don’t think he is presenting as androgynous. He is presenting as a woman.

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I dont find them appealing, and it does raise for me the overly sexualised tone of female modelling, and all the fish gaping.

The one i love of him is the natural happy looking one of him in camo top. I dont think he seems strikingly like his mum, and I wouldn't say hes blown-away strikingly wow, but he is good looking.

Much in the way the stupid fish gape spoils a womans credibility and looks i think it has the same effect on him, it makes the wearer just look stupid.

He has long hair, its not amazing or anything, just hair, and i dont think it looks great done like that tbh. I dont get the wow at all. It's just big.

Theres one natuealt one, which is lovely and hes definitely good looking, but the others are all overly pouty and distinctly false looking. I don't think its a good look, makes people just look stupid and up themselves. He doesnt need to do that, and neither do women, to look attractive, the opposite

I think he is just presenting as himself with make up on.

Some pretty mean comments on this thread. It’s just an advert.

I don't think he looks all that similar to his Mum. They have very different jaw lines. Who he does look similar to is Leonardo DiCaprio, when he was younger.

He still has Steve Bing’s eyes I think. When he was a little boy he was his father’s absolute double.

I dislike the use of young people in fashion modelling given the pressures and exploitation in the industry. Also seeing someone a similar age to my own children posing is unlikely to make me want to buy the clothes or accessories, and I am the one with the money to do so not my children.
I do think these photos highlight the sexualised nature of much female modelling as it makes us uncomfortable when a male does it.
He is very attractive and he may have had very little control over this specific photo shoot.

Zoolander! That's all !

Bloke with big hair and make up shocker.

What I find most weird is that I did all this the first time round (80s) and I didn't think the more silly stuff would cycle back but judging by this and my weekend walk down the high street, here we are!

People don't like a man not conforming to gender norms. There's actually a whiff of homophobia about some of the responses.

He is beautiful but I don’t actually think these photos or the advert do him any justice. He’s far more stunning in other photos I’ve seen of him.

These photos don’t make me uncomfortable though.

He's 17 it's a picture.

Girls much younger have been used in all sorts of actually dodgy ads and few people bat an eyelid.

Twatty also concern for him, he's 17. You don't see similar for girls this age in anything, really. Girls are deemed to have 'agency' by the public at large from about 14.

This is an interesting thread.

They're extremely effiminate but what's the problem with that?

So because girls much younger have been used ...dodgy ads

That somehow links with this being more ok?

Exploiting children is all abhorrent.

I think a boy doing it really does highlight how awful it is and how dulled and desensitised we have become to women and girls doing it.

Looking so sexualised and false is not really to be admired or as a something to aim for?!