The Guardian champions Teen Vogue:
“We’re a woke brand and our readers are woke too.”
Orwell & Goode:
That is all.
Update:
In one year, Teen Vogue’s readership has nearly halved. Less than 5% of their audience consists of actual teenagers.
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God help us.
Posted by: John D | May 12, 2018 at 09:07
God help us.
Ah but, according to Teen Vogue’s experts, children should be taught that Marxoid theory - which had no practical downsides worth reporting, apparently - explains the election of Donald Trump. Which is otherwise, obviously, inexplicable.
Posted by: David | May 12, 2018 at 09:13
And teenagers should be encouraged to believe repeatedly debunked theories of victimhood that are based on feeble and negligent research.
Posted by: David | May 12, 2018 at 09:54
Plus this gem.
https://www.redstate.com/sarah-rumpf/2018/01/08/teen-vogue-sexualizing-9-year-old-boy/
Posted by: Sam | May 12, 2018 at 09:59
Plus this gem.
That.
At the time this became news, my sisters-in-law asked, rather cautiously, what The Other Half and I thought of it. We found ourselves in the odd position of, in effect, giving them permission to disapprove. We said something along the lines of, “If a 9-year-old girl were being paraded around as a gaudy whore, a sexualised child, catnip for paedophiles, what would you think of the people enabling and encouraging it?”
Posted by: David | May 12, 2018 at 10:14
Kim Quade, here.
Posted by: David | May 12, 2018 at 10:22
But if he’s fatigued, you’d never know it. He is poised and alert, with a side of excitable puppy.
OK- now I can go and hit the heavy bag for half an hour. Motivational- thank you.
Posted by: Lancastrian Oik | May 12, 2018 at 10:22
Holy crap.
Right. I'll bet the "science, technology, and ethics" insights of a "meditation coach", whatever the hell that is, who gets his book larnin' from Teen Vogue rank right up there with those of Einstein.
Damn the spoiler, I would have puzzled over that one for several microseconds, not being Woke™, and all.
Wholly crap.
Posted by: Farnsworth M Muldoon | May 12, 2018 at 12:40
From the Guardian article:
“To gaslight is to psychologically manipulate a person to the point where they question their own sanity, and that’s precisely what Trump is doing to this country,” Duca wrote...
Well, plenty of people on the right (and, to be fair, the more rational parts of the left) would say that that's what's been happening to them and their country over the last 10-15 years or so, and perhaps with a fraction more justification.
Summing up with the rallying cry to: “Refuse to accept information simply because it is fed to you, and don’t be afraid to ask questions.” This is solid advice for any teen at any point in history; but in the era of “alternative facts”, it is also, she noted, “the base level of what is required of all Americans”.
Wow. This (the bit in bold - my emphasis) just blew up my irony meter. "Question everything". Unless, of course, it's sufficiently "woke" information and theories. Which therefore means no questioning of critical race theory, multiculturalism, gender issues, LGBT issues, religious issues, etc., if you know what's good for you. You don't need to question those. No. Just accept everything you're told about (for example) systemic racism and structural oppression. Particularly when it's printed in Teen Vogue.
Posted by: Captain Nemo | May 12, 2018 at 12:52
“To gaslight is to psychologically manipulate a person to the point where they question their own sanity, and that’s precisely what Trump is doing to this country,” Duca wrote...
See also, journalism.
Posted by: David | May 12, 2018 at 13:49
I’m still processing the notion that there’s a “woke” publication for self-styled “activists” who believe that Marxism was a benign historical phenomenon with no downside to speak of, and also that Kim Kardashian’s $7000 Gucci outfit is totes amazeballs.
Posted by: David | May 12, 2018 at 14:16
We found ourselves in the odd position of, in effect, giving them permission to disapprove.
About the only upside of getting older is I don't mind speaking up and shocking the 'woke' youngsters anymore.
Posted by: Darleen | May 12, 2018 at 15:15
About the only upside of getting older is I don’t mind speaking up and shocking the ‘woke’ youngsters anymore.
Judging by the above, woke seems to translate as “ignorant, dishonest and morally unmoored.”
Posted by: David | May 12, 2018 at 15:34
“To gaslight is to psychologically manipulate a person to the point where they question their own sanity, and that’s precisely what Trump is doing to this country,” Duca wrote...
Lefties project, as our host would say.
Posted by: Jacob | May 12, 2018 at 15:50
See also, journalism.
And non-STEM academia.
Posted by: Jacob | May 12, 2018 at 15:51
Moar academic wokeness
Money quote at the end:
Posted by: Darleen | May 12, 2018 at 15:55
And non-STEM academia.
Well, quite. The Clown Quarter has been gaslighting its victims for years with lowered standards, racial favouritism, cultivated victimhood, grade inflation and all manner of pernicious anti-rational horseshit, including “equity” dogma and conspiracy theories about “whiteness,” “rape culture” and “toxic masculinity” - by which they seem to mean masculinity.
Posted by: David | May 12, 2018 at 16:01
“I’m still processing the notion that there’s a 'woke' publication for self-styled 'activists' who believe that Marxism was a benign historical phenomenon with no downside to speak of, and also that Kim Kardashian’s $7000 Gucci outfit is totes amazeballs.”
That's the beauty of it. Teenage girls don't remember East Germans shuffling around in ill-fitting Bulgarian shoes. The “journalists” can present Marxism as entirely compatible with a Vogue-esque lifestyle, with the only objections coming from middle-aged gits like ourselves who can safely be disregarded as irrelevant.
Posted by: Sam Duncan | May 12, 2018 at 16:05
middle-aged gits like ourselves
[ Applies moisturiser. ]
Posted by: David | May 12, 2018 at 16:49
Ebony magazine has been doing just fine since 1945 with never a Caucasian on the cover.
Idiots. (The Teen Voguers, not the Ebony people; I’ve seen a good many issues and it’s less inane than the publications aimed at whites.)
Posted by: Pogonip | May 12, 2018 at 16:55
Kind of odd the s-i-l’s seemed uncertain about what your opinion might be of “catnip for pedophiles.” I’d be offended if someone seemed to think my opinion might be anything other than “That’s awful!” Shame on them.
There was a little girl in the U.S. who was tarted up like an expensive hooker for “child beauty pageants.” Someone strangled her. Those horrible pageants are STILL legal. If you want to see catnip for pedophiles, check out some footage.
Posted by: Pogonip | May 12, 2018 at 17:14
"Like advise girls what kind of cutesy gifts to give a BFF who just had an abortion. "
Gifts...? GIFTS...?!
Posted by: JuliaM | May 12, 2018 at 17:25
“To gaslight is to psychologically manipulate a person to the point where they question their own sanity, and that’s precisely what Trump is doing to this country,” Duca wrote...
If you were to compile a list of statusful environments that people pay to inhabit but which are institutionally dysfunctional and likely to corrode a person’s sense of realism, and probity, and basic moral function, then the Clown Quarter of academia would have to be somewhere near the top. And the people invoking gaslighting, above, have spent too much time there - in Ms Duca’s case, “journalism and critical theory” - to register the irony of their own statements.
Posted by: David | May 12, 2018 at 17:25
Oh heck, I decided to find out about the author of Teen Vogue's I♥Marx piece. Aren't 'they' precious?
Posted by: Darleen | May 12, 2018 at 17:44
Gifts...? GIFTS...?!
Because when a teenage girl has just had an abortion, the ideal and thoughtful gift is a “GRL PWR” cap. Or this charming “aggro pin” here.
Posted by: David | May 12, 2018 at 17:46
Oh heck, I decided to find out about the author of Teen Vogue’s I♥Marx piece. Aren’t ‘they’ precious?
I’m assuming that the major horrors of 20th century history was a subject too full of dreary facts to warrant any attention. Ditto the actual writings of Marx and Engels.
Posted by: David | May 12, 2018 at 17:55
I'm still getting over that it's apparently OK for "them" to write for Playboy.
If I wrote for Playboy, that would surely signal toxic masculinity at its worst.
Posted by: Chester Draws | May 12, 2018 at 19:03
Hmmm.
I've read of the Guardian. Over time, I've also read that there are small scale publishing occurrences called zines.
I can't say that I'm particularly surprised or annoyed that I don't recall having previously encountered such a title as "Teen Vogue". Or, I may have seen something, but merely seeing isn't going to make something worth remembering.
At the very least, given contemporary internet and mass publishing capabilities, I'll also grant a complete lack of surprise at the existence of such a zine.
Posted by: Hal | May 12, 2018 at 19:59
>Charlie Knoles is a 39-year-old meditation coach and father based in California. He reads Politico, ProPublica and the Wall Street Journal, and posts on Facebook about all sorts, including science, technology and ethics. But recently he posted: "I now go to Teen Vogue for serious journalism."
Charlie Knoles is happy for the world to know he's a moron.
But then he is a 'meditation coach'.
Posted by: Hector Drummond, Vile Novelist | May 12, 2018 at 21:16
middle-aged gits like ourselves
[ Applies moisturiser. ]
Posted by: Hal | May 12, 2018 at 22:35
Speaking of woke, here’s Laurie Penny’s sister:
Imagine the parties.
Posted by: David | May 13, 2018 at 08:54
Speaking of woke, here’s Laurie Penny’s sister:
So Laurie's the clever one?
Posted by: Joan | May 13, 2018 at 09:20
So Laurie’s the clever one?
What a thought. It’s interesting, though, how both sisters have embraced the same compulsive, neurotic signalling.
Signalling that, despite the radical pretensions, actually suggests conformity and a kind of intellectual insecurity.
Posted by: David | May 13, 2018 at 09:42
Don't know where to begin with this one. Will David Hogg be in Australia soon? He likes this to advance his agenda.
http://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/peter-didnt-snap-he-thought-this-through-father-of-shooting-victims-speaks/ar-AAxbDaf?ocid=ientp
Posted by: Black Ball | May 13, 2018 at 10:17
Speaking of woke, here’s Laurie Penny’s sister:
Does she think Israel is 'whiter' than Estonia?
Posted by: Jen | May 13, 2018 at 11:08
Does she think Israel is ‘whiter’ than Estonia?
I think that one deserves a post of its own.
Posted by: David | May 13, 2018 at 11:34
The NYT recently ran this ode to moral idiocy, Happy Birthday, Karl Marx. You Were Right!
This stuck out like a badly covered mass grave:
Troubled history. Really? Is that the best this cretin can muster? Korba the Dread rather strongly suggests "troubled history" is light years from the truth. Denial is his superpower.
(Undoubtedly without any knowledge of the inherent irony, that sentence is followed by this, a festival of ambiguous reference:
Why it is that contemporary Marxists aren't treated with the same well earned revulsion as their nazi counterparts is an enduring mystery.
Posted by: Jeff Guinn | May 13, 2018 at 12:10
Why it is that contemporary Marxists aren't treated with the same well earned revulsion as their nazi counterparts is an enduring mystery.
I think that one of the reasons is because the public perception of Marxism/Communism, undeserved though it may be, is that it was something good and noble gone horridly bad. Unlike Fascism, which is (deservedly) viewed as something evil gone horribly right. Another reason which occurs to me, and which is linked to the point I've just made, is that there has never been the Communist equivalent of the Nuremberg trials, where the atrocities committed by Communists were loudly and publicly stated for the world to see, and where those responsible were held to account.
Posted by: Captain Nemo | May 13, 2018 at 12:44
Why it is that contemporary Marxists aren't treated with the same well earned revulsion as their nazi counterparts is an enduring mystery.
Because fascism is a form of socialism that (theoretically) benefits only one group of people. If you’re in that group, hey no problem. Communism is a socialism that (theoretically) benefits everyone!. Larger potential market for the latter. Until it’s implemented, of course.
The real big lie is that fascism and/or communism are anything relatively new. Both existed, especially fascism, under different labels for millennia.
Posted by: WTP | May 13, 2018 at 12:55
Also woke, this.
Following which, I found this riposte of note.
Posted by: David | May 13, 2018 at 13:27
A couple weeks ago, someone raised this same point, and pointed to Venezuela Analysis, which defends the Bolivarian revolution.
Having followed the link, and read some of the articles, I can only conclude there is a deformation in the time-space continuum that allows progressives to avoid the crushing pile of moral opprobrium which they so richly deserve. How the hell does this guy get to go out in public un-slugged?
Never mind that the Soviet Union collapsed into the rubbish tip of history, the eye glazing assaults on language, facts and logic remain the same.
Posted by: Jeff Guinn | May 13, 2018 at 16:16
eye glazing assaults on language
[eyes glazed]
I can't imagine a finer example of Poe's Law in action.
Posted by: Spiny Norman | May 13, 2018 at 19:24
Charlie Knoles is a 39-year-old meditation coach and father based in California. He reads Politico, ProPublica and the Wall Street Journal, and posts on Facebook about all sorts, including science, technology and ethics. But recently he posted: “I now go to Teen Vogue for serious journalism.”
I wouldn’t look through his hard drives for all the tea in China.
Posted by: Tim Newman | May 13, 2018 at 21:35
Heh.
Bad Tim.
Posted by: David | May 13, 2018 at 21:40
They received a Bachelor of Arts in Literature and Communication Arts with a minor in Anthropology and concentration in Creative Writing from Ramapo College of New Jersey. They also have backgrounds in politics and social justice
a Bachelor of Arts...
They have backgrounds in politics and social justice...
And it claims to be a professional writer. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot!?
Posted by: W Krebs | May 15, 2018 at 04:01
They have backgrounds in politics and social justice...
And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.
Posted by: AQ | May 15, 2018 at 09:45
God have mercy
Posted by: susan | May 31, 2018 at 09:55