Is GQ magazine read by gentlemen?

Question

As the name "Gentleman's Quarterly" might suggest, the target reader is the discerning gentleman. However, whilst on a train recently, I noticed a chap reading this journal, and he looked nothing like a gentleman. He was wearing denims and a t-shirt saying "Sit on my face". Is the magazine's name infringing the Trade Descriptions Act?

Answer 1

GQ is read by the lower classes who aspire to reach the upper echelons of society. In reality it is I am reliably informed by my driver 'a poorly disguised wa*k mag' I have no idea of this terminology, but it sounds horrendous. I myself read Fox and Hound, Tatler, Razzle and Lifestyles of the rich and famous. It is gratifying to see myself in print.

Answer 2

The term 'gentleman' although also referring to one born into a life of privilege, can also be used as a somewhat optimistic generic term to refer to any male person.

As an example, just the other day I saw a drunken tramp dressed in rags being arrested as the policeman said 'Come along now sir, don't give us any trouble, there's a good gentleman'. Although I suppose it could have been the Marquess of Bath.

Answer 3

I fear SO.......  I found a copy in the Club's reading room.... I was a little taken back, on the style of writing.... I mean football, where in Europe is best for a shag, and the style section had no reference to top hats ????

I asked the local news vendor if he had a copy of NUTS, given my son's passion for conkering. PENTHOUSE for the recent attempted purchase of a pied d'attre in the city, and MAYFAIR, for the same reason..... But I was shocked at their content, but kept them in my study for reference....

PS loved the photo shoot you did..... but disappointed at the location of the staples....

Answer 4

Your question is amusing.  And yes "Gentleman" read this magazine.  I peruse through the magazine, and at 25 dress like some of the guys on their.  Although, with clothes costing a fraction of the cost of that Gucci suit.

Answer 5

Your ladyship, magazines are often focii for dreams that have no basis in reality. I quit buying this mag years ago when it had some Lunatic Left political propoganda. I glance at it at the library occasionally, and I see it still has such "kuso". All too many mags try to force their personal opinions upon readers and act as if such dumb opinions are holy texts. I disagree with many fashion statements the mag makes anyhow. I wrote and illustrated a book about fashions, so I know more than dumb mags about the subject. Terence Rafferty viciously ridiculed bodybuilder-actor Steve Reeves in this mag shortly after his death. A true gentleman does not do such hateful things, publish it or read it without protest. It is dumb and immature men who wrongly believe reading such a mag make them gentlemen who read such a rag.

Answer 6

I don't read it, as I live the lifestyle it purports to showcase anyway why should I have reason to?

Answer 7

No, do you have to be a chef to read "Bon appetit"?

  GQ, is made for gentlemen, but is mainly focused towards 20-35 males, it does not try to discriminate, but does have articles that are meant to inform men on how to dress better.

  

Just becuase the guy dressed in a way that bothers you, does not mean he is not a gentlemen. He might be the nicest person you never met.

  

There is a good chance there is a man in a 3 peice dress suit reading the magazine, who would treat you like a peice of garbage.

Clothes dont make the man, which is another point GQ makes often.

Answer 8

First of all, are you from the 1800s?  You speak like an ignorant English man, and definitely not like a person in the year 2008.  And for your information, anyone can read any magazine they want to, it's a free country and everyone is entitled to do what they please, no matter what they're wearing, or look like, for that matter.  Just because a man was wearing jeans, it doesn't mean he is lower-class, or unworthy of reading a mens' magazine.  I find it absurd how you are judging people you don't even know and making inaccurate assumptions about them that are most likely not even true in the first place.