Esquire Editor is Cool with Objectifying Women
Alex Bilmes, the editor of British Esquire, is maybe not the brightest guy around. The Guardian reports that during a panel discussion on feminism in the media and advertising, Bilmes basically bragged about his magazine using women as objects:
The women we feature in the magazine are ornamental. That is how we see them. I could lie to you if you want and say we are interested in their brains as well, but on the whole we’re not.
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