It’s worthwhile to compare the other “iconic” Vanity Fair cover Woman with Caitlyn’s curious spread Man From the ultimate image of womanhood to its ultimate caricature. Moore’s deliberately immodest cover offered pregnancy as a feminist provocation: you can’t do this. Caitlyn’s celebrants, twenty four years later, would be outraged. In seizing immediately upon socio-political platitudes,Continue reading “The Fake’s Progress”
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Resourceful Satirical Magazine Finds Americans Not Stereotyping, Ridicules Them For Their Ignorance
Via Steve Sailer, here’s The Onion engaging in accidental self-parody: Majority of Americans Not Informed Enough To Stereotype Chechens The peoples’ calm tolerance goes into the media’s Narrate-o-Matic and voila, out it comes as popular “ignorance.” The average American just can’t win–must be why the elites think he’s such a loser. Of course the realContinue reading “Resourceful Satirical Magazine Finds Americans Not Stereotyping, Ridicules Them For Their Ignorance”
D’uhccuse…!
He’s just saying there’s nothing wrong with that. Well, they look like a white crowd to me. Not that there’s anything wrong with it, but it is pretty monochromatic up here. No surprise in terms of the ethnic nature of the people showing up. Nothing wrong with that. But it is a fact. I thinkContinue reading “D’uhccuse…!”
Voices, Violence and Vocations
Impelled by religious zeal, a man commits an act of terrorist murder, targeting an individual he deems responsible for the slaughter of innocents. The charge follows: through the use of extreme language activist organizations, news outlets–the very opinions and beliefs they espouse–provoked the violence. By implication (or direct inference) these beliefs are discredited not byContinue reading “Voices, Violence and Vocations”
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