Re: Please. Stop. Talking.
Musician John Mayer is the Playboy Interview for March. I was about to write: “In a candid interview, Mayer discusses his relationship with Jennifer Aniston and Jessica Simpson” (among many other things) but that would be stating the obvious. Every time Mayer speaks, he’s candid. Strike that. He’s more than candid. He’s the King of TMI. In the interview, Mayer rambles on about his love of masturbation and porn, gives a vivid description of his attempt to “out-gay” gossip writer Perez Hilton and talks about having a racist penis. Note on that last point: You just have to read it.
In the Q&A, Mayer equates sex with Simpson to an addiction to crack cocaine. In other words, it was bad for him but oh so good in its badness. Alternatively, he calls his time with Aniston “a deep relationship” and says that they have “a regard for each other’s feelings that is pretty intense.”
Since this is the Playboy Interview, Mayer’s sexual admissions are not shocking, surprising or inappropriate. They are expected. What’s less expected however, is the reaction his references to Aniston and Simpson have generated online. In this post from popular blog Pop Eater, the writer uses Mayer’s post-break-up confessional as a platform to compare Jessica and Jennifer. Here’s the argument: Because Mayer had a not so intense regard for Simpson he can freely discuss their “sexual napalm” whereas his bond with Aniston prevents him from talking about her with anything but respect and almost brotherly goodwill. The post also quotes a celebrity columnist and a psychologist who agree that for John, Jennifer is classy. Jessica on the other hand, not so much. The argument continues by suggesting that if Jessica stops over-using her Twitter account, perhaps she wouldn’t be so exposed to a public discussion of her prowess in the bedroom.
So it’s really all Simpson’s fault. Except that it’s not because John Mayer is an idiot who likes to hear himself talk. That’s not to say that he shouldn’t be able to freely discuss any subject he chooses. He should. Whether we should use his nonsense as a way to establish shallow representations of women is another issue entirely.
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