Film

Kevin Bacon Bravely Champions Gender Equality, Asks For More “Weiner, Balls And Butt” In Film And TV

"Let me play Christian Grey — we'll do the whole movie as one long close-up of my penis."

by Meg Watson  5 August 2015

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In case you haven’t noticed, there’s been a bit of a trend this year in which a number of respected A-list actors have very subtly suggested guys should consider getting their dicks out more.

A couple of months ago, responding to the criticism of the industry’s ongoing objectification of female actors, Chris Pratt encouraged us all to ogle his sweet velociraptor-training abs. “I think it’s appalling that for a long time only women were objectified, but I think if we really want to advocate for equality, it’s important to even things out,” he said on BBC Radio.

“[We shouldn’t] objectify women less, but objectify men just as often as we objectify women.”

This GIF is both totally gratuitous and completely necessary. Stay here are long as you want.

Then, commenting specifically on Game Of Thrones — and its notoriously disproportionate vajay to peen ratio — Jack Gleeson reiterated the same idea to The Daily Beast. Though he felt it would have been inappropriate for him to personally disrobe while playing a 14-year-old boy king, he said we should “not just objectify women, but also objectify the beauty of the male genitalia!”.

Now, Kevin Bacon has entered the debate. On the promotional tour for his new film Cop Car, he filmed the following seemingly unrelated clip for Mashable about nudity in film and television. Here, he suggests this is “an issue of gender equality”, encourages guys to “free the bacon”, volunteers to play a “naked wizard” on Game of Thrones, and provides more than one unnerving description of his dick. Enjoy:

Incidentally, at almost the exact moment this clip was released, Lenny Kravitz played a show in Stockholm in which his peen literally burst out through his tight leather pants and flopped onto the stage.

The revolution is now.