GQ Really?

Ok, someone help me out here. When your own mother calls you an old man I guess you got some issues, but I'm only 31! I had to fly home on emergency leave two weeks ago and due to the short planning time I had a five hour lay over in Dulles. So I find my gate for my connecting and it happens to have a book store right across from it. I noticed the top of a GQ magazine in the racks, and since I've never read one before I grabbed it up along with a water and 8 bucks later I'm reclined on the floor by a wall reading and waiting. I don't know what I was expecting, maybe an article on how to appreciate fine spirits or a good cigar or something. What I got were articles on men's fashion (I expected that), a lot of sex advise some of which was not to gentlemanly, and an interview from a internet porn king who's in jail for making a video with two underage girls, and I could have sworn the interviewer was trying to make this guy out to the be victim. I noticed all of this at about the same time I noticed that every woman who walked by me was either giving me a look of utter disdain or a naughty grin. I didn't put two and two together until I looked at the front of the magazine, which was in plain view to all passers by given the way I was propped up as I sat/laid on the floor. Yeah, it's a picture of Adriana Lima completed naked and shielding herself with a palm leaf and her arms. I then did a mental rewind as to how many children had walked by with their parents. I was mortified and I shoved the magazine in my bag. This was the first edition of this magazine I have read so I don't want to pass judgment on the whole thing just off this one issue so I ask: To those who read it on a regular basis, is this the usual content of GQ magazine? Because it didn't seem very gentlemanly to me. Maybe I am becoming an old man, but when I think "Gentleman" I think of clean, well dressed, well spoken, well mannered, knows his etiquette, things like that. I don't think of, "Knows how to get a supermodel into bed." Someone care to educate me? Am I making a sensible point or do I just need to SUAGO?

Now where is my Ben Gay rub????......

-Aaron

I have looked at 3 copies that have been left in the break room, all 3 were rubbish, and that is where I put them. Photos of questionable looking men in clothing I would never ware or be able to afford with more advertisements than content. But maybe that is just me. Call me funny but I prefer reading things with actual content and require more than 4 brain cells to comprehend. Something you could actually have a conversation about.

Maxim is better- it has much of the same, but is typically more gentlemanly. It's got the same pictures on the front but it tends to actually have real advice (if that's what you're looking for). For the parts of Maxim that I've read on dating, they tend to focus on how not to be a douchebag.

Their style tips are fairly good and don't turn their readers into metro type Gapites.

To be fair. I'm not into that type of Magazine at all. I find that in order to be a proper gentleman all one needs to do is think clearly and follow his conscience.

And most of the articles I'd be interested in don't appear in those types of magazines anyway. They tend to be aimed towards ALL men....and my interest run a bit more...shalol we say Niche?

Rollerblading, knives, music MAKING (not just buying cd's) Video making (not claiming your "hobby" is watching movies....that's not a hobby...just a pasttime.) and then some other peculiar (in this society) stuff. So they can keep their pansyboy magazines.

You will not find actual gentlemanly advice in modern magazines since Emily Post died. Far better to pick up a P. G. Wodehouse novel and study the examples of Wooster and Jeeves.

I'd go for MAD next time, at least there you don't have anything like the expectation if intelligence.

I'm mostly like LX my tastes in magazines run to only those that are specific to my interests, though, I used to enjoy Cigar Aficionado quite a bit when I was into that scene. They had some very nice articles on travel, even some fashion, and grooming reviews.

Believe it or but I actually bought a playboy for the articles, a long time ago, when I was still single.
Actually I bought it twice.

Once they had a special on pocket knives, and the other time a lengthy article on shaolin kung fu.

So Bruno....

Which knife exactly had the staple through its navel";"

And what does David Carradine look like without pants:roflmao

The old Master himself teaching the ways of the fist? :P

:OT
Wooster and Jeeves! There is the stuff! What a life Bertie Had! I love it.

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Originally Posted by mparker762

You will not find actual gentlemanly advice in modern magazines since Emily Post died. Far better to pick up a P. G. Wodehouse novel and study the examples of Wooster and Jeeves.

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GQ a while back used to be useful and now it is crap. Actually I have been impressed by Mens Vogue with articles about fine rums and cigars and people who are actually interesting. The problem is that it is very new and not everywhere yet but I suppose in time that it will become crap too.

I haven't read GQ in years, I quit about the time I noticed that I noticed that the quality was decreasing as my age increased.

What we need is a good straight razor magazine:w

I read Esquire which I find to be much better then GQ, at least for a more mature audience. This month's cover has a picture of Jessica Simpson shaving with a DE (Gillette Super Speed Razor). According to the cover they are quite proud of what they call "The most gripping story you will read this year", a story about bringing dead soldiers home.

The magazine is far from perfect but much better then most of the other trash on the shelves.

I haven't read GQ in ages....quality went down the crapper. +1 on Esquire....Esquire has been around since the 1920's I believe. Much better quality and some humor as well. I also read Wired, Fast Company, Conde-Nast Traveller.