!! Media Critics Should Stop Insulting Women's Intelligence By Saying
Dakota's Too Young To Be On The Cover Of Cosmopolitan Magazine! !!
Puhleeze! Can the prudes who are in a tizzy over almost 18-year-old
*Dakota Fanning [1]* appearing on the February cover of American
Cosmopolitan [2] please get their knickers out of a knot?
Cosmopolitan is, by far, the largest women's magazine in the entire
world. I can assure you that millions of 17-year-old women [3] read it
without incident. I know this as both the former editor-in-chief of
Cosmopolitan and as a mother of a 21-year-old daughter.
Dakota, with her stellar acting career and great attitude, definitely
qualifies as the magazine's "Fun, Fearless Female of the Year! [4]"
But out-of-touch critics are attacking the magazine for putting Dakota
on the cover because she doesn't turn 18 until Feb. 23rd. Their beef
is that while they admit Dakota is actually in a very demure evening
gown on the cover, she is surrounded by Cosmo's typically sexy cover
lines [5].
"Cosmopolitan is going overboard by putting an underage girl on its
cover surrounded by such article titles," so-called media expert
*Rachelle Friberg* groused to FOX411's Pop Tarts [6] column. "It is
one thing to educate young women about sex and their bodies, but
putting a young, underage girl on the cover of a magazine [7] that had
long been known to push the limits is sending "the wrong message."
Yes, the headline to the left of her face, says "His Best Sex Ever ---
Guys Describe the Mind-Blowing Moves They Can't Stop Thinking About,"
and another cover line says, "Too Naughty To Say Here! But You Have To
Try This Sex Trick."
OK, they are sexy. SO WHAT?
Have you tuned in to pop culture that 17-year-old girls have been
exposed to since the 1960s? Have you seen Jersey Shore, Gossip Girl,
Keeping Up With The Kardashians, Pretty Little Liars and 90210 on
prime time lately? Seventeen year-old girls have, and all these shows
cover [8] sex pretty explicitly and no one is freaking out about it.
Let's talk about Dakota's career itself. She starred in the terrific
2010 independent film, The Runaways, about the early career of
rocker *Joan Jett*. Dakota played the very sexually precocious
member of Joan's band, the underage *Cherie Currie*, who performed
on stage in corsets and garters and had sex on screen with a lesbian,
Joan Jett, played by *Kristen Stewart* [9].
She also played the intensely evil vampire Jane, in the Twilight
series films.
In other words, she's been playing "very adult" roles for years. I
doubt that her "morals" are being corrupted by appearing next to a few
racy cover lines in an evening gown that is a whole lot less racy than
anything worn by 16-year-old *Kendall Jenner* recently or by many teen
girls going to proms.
Furthermore, Dakota is a freshman student at New York University [10].
She's hearing about far more explicit sex talk from her friends and
classmates, I bet, than what she's reading in Cosmo.
Neither can we equate Dakota's cover to other "controversial" magazine
or advertising photos which have featured young teens [11].
When *Miley Cyrus [12]* appeared basically topless at the age of 15,
on the cover of Vanity Fair, that was inappropriate. When *Brooke
Shields [13]* appeared as a sexy model saying nothing came between her
and her Calvins , when she was just 14, THAT was appropriately
controversial.
Click to read more about Dakota's Cosmo controversy! [14]
Follow Bonnie Fuller on Twitter:
www.twitter.com/bonniefuller [15]
More:
Bonnie Fuller: Dakota Fanning's Racy Cosmopolitan Cover: This
Controversy Is Ridiculous
Links:
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[1] http://www.hollywoodlife.com/tag/dakota-fanning/
[2] http://www.cosmopolitan.com/
[3] http://www.hollywoodlife.com/2011/12/28/elle-fanning-teen-vogue-february-2012-cover/
[4] http://www.hollywoodlife.com/2011/12/19/dakota-fanning-bar-refaeli-no-makeup/
[5] http://www.hollywoodlife.com/2011/11/14/dakota-elle-fanning-w-magazine/
[6] http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2012/01/05/is-dakota-fanning-too-young-to-be-on-cover-cosmopolitan/
[7] http://www.hollywoodlife.com/2011/11/14/dakota-and-elle-fanning-w-pics/
[8] http://www.hollywoodlife.com/2011/11/09/dakota-fanning-oh-lola-banned-marc-jacobs/
[9] http://www.hollywoodlife.com/tag/kristen-stewart/
[10] http://www.hollywoodlife.com/2011/08/24/selena-gomez-not-going-college/
[11] http://www.hollywoodlife.com/2011/07/26/elle-fanning-love-magazine-cover/
[12] http://www.hollywoodlife.com/tag/miley-cyrus/
[13] http://www.hollywoodlife.com/tag/brooke-shields/
[14] http://www.hollywoodlife.com/2012/01/06/dakota-fanning-cosmopolitan-cover-scandal-pics/
[15] http://www.twitter.com/bonniefuller
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