Racy 'Glee' Photos in GQ: Time to Tone it Down or Just Get Over It?

'Glee' Actress Dianna Agron Says Shoot 'Wasn't My Favorite Idea,' but 'We Are Not the First' to Push Envelope

By Sarah Netter, ABC News
Oct. 21, 2010

What 8-year-old reads GQ? 

Those were the sentiments of one of the "Glee" actresses under fire for posing in the newest issue of the men's magazine. They appeared racy set of photos as hyper-sexualized versions of their high-school aged characters . "If you are hurt or these photos make you uncomfortable, it was never our intention. And if your eight-year-old has a copy of our GQ cover in hand, again I am sorry," actress Dianna Agron wrote in her blog on Tumblr. "But I would have to ask, how on earth did it get there?"

The backlash against the photo spread, which also features Lea Michele and Cory Monteith, reached its zenith when the Parents Television Council, a conservative media watchdog, released a scathing critique saying the shoot "borders on pedophilia" and is a "near-pornographic display."

'I Love My Hair' Video Inspired by Father's Love of Daughter

'Sesame Street' writer pens song to help Black girls love their hair

By LIinsey Davis and Jessica Hopper, ABC News
10.18.10
"Sesame Street" has always been about learning. But one particular muppet is getting tremendous praise for her latest lesson; teaching young, black girls that their hair is beautiful just the way it is.

The viral video of a brown Muppet, meant to represent an African-American girl, singing, "I really, really, really love my hair" has been visited by a quarter of a million people on YouTube. The video, which has made many people smile, was inspired by one father's love for his daughter.

Joey Mazzarino, the head writer at "Sesame Street," who is also a puppeteer, adopted a little girl from Ethiopia named Segi.

Sesame Street Writer Inspired By Daughter

"She's like my little muse," Mazzarino said.

As Mazzarino and his wife watched their daughter grow, he noticed a change when she started playing with Barbies. Segi started saying negative things about herself and her own hair.

"She was going through this phase where she really wanted like the long, blonde hair. ... She would look at Barbies and really want the hair."

Week 9: Family in America

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A ministering angel shall my sister be.

 

  —William Shakespeare, Hamlet (c. 1600)

Tu 10.19

Read: CR-“Rooster at the Hitchin' Post” by David Sedaris, “Pruning Generations” by David Mas Masumoto; eR—“The Missing Parents Bureau” from This American Life (2001)
In-Class: Watch—Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son about His Father (2008)

Th 10.21
Read: CR—“This Blessed House” by Jhumpa Lahiri, “Terwilliger Bunts One” by Annie Dillard
In-Class: Reading discussion; Presentations; Writer’s workshop
Due: Expository essay (Draft 1; Bring 4 copies)  

 

UPCOMING:

WEEK 10: FAMILY IN AMERICA 

Tu 10.26
Read: “Raising Cain” by Debora J. Dickerson, “Three Fathers” by Kevin Sweeney, “Bumping into Mr. Ravioli” by Adam Gopnik
In-Class: Reading discussion; Presentations; Preview—Cause and effect essay
Due: Expository essay (Final draft; Attach draft 1)

Th 10.28
In-Class: Cause and effect essay
Due: Journal 5