Justin Bieber probably draws an excellent dick on a grease board
His struggle to be a real boy has been usurped by his label’s mission - and, by extension, ours - to make him a man
- PEGGY SIROTA/GQ
A great GQ profile on Justin Bieber just hit the web today. In it, the writer Drew Magary uses the word “pederast,” which sounds like “pedophile” but means something slightly different. I had to look it up.
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It means “a person who engages in pederasty.”
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Don’t you hate when the dictionary does that? Of course I had to look up “pederasty,” and when I did on dictionary.com an ad for MySpace popped up, offering the perfect metaphor for the harsh reality Bieber is facing. Which is exactly what Magary’s profile of Bieber is all about - you know, whether he’ll survive teen pop idol stardom or die there, forever doomed to “Where Are They Now” episodes on VH1 or, worse yet, the life of Macaulay Culkin.
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Remember when MySpace was huge and inescapable. Like Justin Bieber? Even if you hated it you had to acquiesce. Now MySpace is running ads on dictionary.com. I think I’ll say a prayer for the Biebz tonight. That’s when he puts in work - or play - according to Magary, who failed miserably at his mission to turn the well-cloistered, newly-turned 18-year old into a real man (no drinking and no titty bars, say his publicist) but gained some serious insight along the way. Like the fact that Bieber’s handlers didn’t want him to know that Bieber was probably the culprit behind the dicks drawn on the studio grease board. Or that Biebz admits to having had beer before, but says he’s never lost control - because a manchild in his rare position must keep his industry guard up at all times. His struggle to be a real boy has been usurped by his label’s mission - and, by extension, ours - to make him a man.
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Oh, btw, pederasty, as defined by dictionary.com, is “sexual relations between two males, especially when one of them is a minor.” Relax, it’s just a metaphor.