Tone Deaf!

People Magazine puts Patrick Dempsey on their cover, 20 years later. The magazine continues to be tone deaf when it comes to this.

People Magazine released its annual Most Sexiest Man Alive and once again for the third time a white man graces the cover. No person of color.

Actor Patrick Dempsey graces the People Magazine cover.

Last two covers were Chris Evans and Paul Rudd.

How long will it take to put a person of color on People's Sexiest Man Alive?

When will they retire this?

It's tone deaf and doesn't represent beauty. I mean, what gives them the right to define who the fuck is the "sexiest?"

The annual feature the "Sexiest Man Alive" is billed as a benchmark of male attractiveness and typically includes only famous people. It is determined using a procedure similar to the procedure used for Time's Person of the Year. The origin of the title was a discussion on a planned story on Mel Gibson. Someone exclaimed, "Oh my God, he is the sexiest man alive!" And someone else said, "You should use that as a cover line."

Of the nearly 40 years of issuing this title, guess how many were people of color?

Year	Choice	Age
February 4, 1985	Mel Gibson	29
January 27, 1986	Mark Harmon[27]	34
March 30, 1987	Harry Hamlin	35
September 12, 1988	John F. Kennedy Jr.	28
December 16, 1989	Sean Connery	59
July 23, 1990	Tom Cruise	27
July 22, 1991	Patrick Swayze	38
March 16, 1992	Nick Nolte	51
October 19, 1993	Richard Gere (1) (Sexiest Couple Alive)	44
	Cindy Crawford[28]	27
1994 (awarded on November 18, 2015)	Keanu Reeves[29]	30
January 30, 1995	Brad Pitt (1)	32
July 29, 1996	Denzel Washington	41
November 17, 1997	George Clooney (1)	36
November 16, 1998	Harrison Ford	56
November 15, 1999	Richard Gere (2)	50
November 13, 2000	Brad Pitt (2)	37
November 26, 2001	Pierce Brosnan	48
December 2, 2002	Ben Affleck	30
December 1, 2003	Johnny Depp (1)	40
November 29, 2004	Jude Law	31
November 28, 2005	Matthew McConaughey[30]	36
November 27, 2006	George Clooney (2)[31]	45
November 26, 2007	Matt Damon[32]	37
November 25, 2008	Hugh Jackman[33]	40
November 18, 2009	Johnny Depp (2)[34]	46
November 17, 2010	Ryan Reynolds[35]	34
November 16, 2011	Bradley Cooper[36]	36
November 14, 2012	Channing Tatum[37]	32
November 19, 2013	Adam Levine[38]	34
November 19, 2014	Chris Hemsworth[39]	31
November 17, 2015	David Beckham[40]	40
November 15, 2016	Dwayne Johnson[41]	44
November 14, 2017	Blake Shelton[42]	41
November 5, 2018	Idris Elba[43]	46
November 13, 2019	John Legend[44]	40
November 30, 2020	Michael B. Jordan[45]	33
November 10, 2021	Paul Rudd[46]	52
November 7, 2022	Chris Evans[47]	41
November 7, 2023	Patrick Dempsey[48]	57

They had five Black men on the cover.

Denzel Washington 

Dwayne Johnson

Idris Elba 

John Legend

Michael B. Jordan

It took a pressure campaign to force People to reevaluate its nomination process.

Looks like it will happen once again.

People Magazine picks its "Sexiest Man Alive" cover. Notice a pattern?

People Magazine does have a problem. The magazine doesn't pick people of color. The magazine defines White as the "most sexiest" and "most beautiful." They have only five men and four women of color gracing the magazine.

Not a problem at all. People Magazine carefully picks the candidate. They pick the celebrity who is newsworthy. This isn't about color. This about magazine sales.

I don't read People Magazine.

You guys have Essence, Ebony, Jet and Vibe Magazine to put Black celebrities on.

 

See the magazine has not placed Latino, Asian, Brown, Indigenous or disabled actors in their Most Sexiest Man Alive. It took a pressure campaign to at least get a Black actor on the damn magazine cover.

And for the last time, what qualifies as "sexiest?"

Many are getting tired of this. I know I am. I am tired of celebrity tabloids using these titles to divide people.

People Magazine gives Americans the impression you got to be white, skinny, rich and at least newsworthy.

With a readership of 46.6 million adults in 2009, People had the largest audience of any American magazine, but it fell to second place in 2018 after its readership significantly declined to 35.9 million. People had $997 million in advertising revenue in 2011, the highest advertising revenue of any American magazine.

In 2006, it had a circulation of 3.75 million and revenue expected to top $1.5 billion

I expect conservatives to draw conclusions and use the minority owned magazines as a cover. 

 Yeah, did you know that Ebony and Jet were started way before People Magazine?

John H. Johnson got fed up with magazines covers showing only White people. So he started his own and it became a success. Ebony and Jet are not as big as People but managed to reach an audience that feels neglected by whitewashing mmagazines like People.