For this edition of Sunday Blessings, we are giving thanks to Jesus for Seann William Scott. Ok, yes I know you're probably thinking, "Seann William Scott, what is this 2001?" I picked Scott because he's in the just released comedy Role Models, alongside Paul Rudd, who I could have just as easily written about. Rudd is just as adorable and more talented than Scott, but there's something more compelling about the idea of Seann William Scott. I think he is representative of a new approach to male "stars," that has emerged in the last ten years, in which male actors/celebrities gain additional fame by willingly objectifying themselves, something which had only previously been done by women, i.e. Pamela Anderson, Tawny Kitaen, even going back to Jane Fonda starring in Barbarella. Men are now willing to pose in provocative photo shoots, shirtless, with pants almost low enough to reveal something. We see this in Chris Evans, who gained a lot of recognition after his Flaunt Magazine photo shoot, or David Beckham whose popularity in the US has been partially fueled by his revealing underwear advertisements, and Mario Lopez who got a gig on the entertainment show Extra, after doing beefcake photo spreads in a number of magazines. With Scott, I don't think the various shirtless shots in movies and magazines or appearing in his underwear on stage at the MTV Movie Awards has helped him that much in his career. He still seems to be typecast as the hot, dumb guy with the goofy smile, and maybe he is just a hot, dumb guy with a goofy smile, but in the end what's most important about that desciption is hot. Scott is hot, and that's all that matters, really. Praise Jesus!
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