Man at the top
This kind of thing is why the trans ideology is convincing to so many.
As a fashion-obsessed teenager, I dreamed of working for Vogue. What girl didn’t?
The girl who doesn’t give a shit about fashion and has other things to dream of, that’s what girl didn’t. My guess is there are more than two or three of them. Fashion really isn’t so enthralling that half the population dreams of spending her working life thinking about it.
This was in the 2000s, and smartphones weren’t everywhere yet, so we’d leaf through the latest copy hungrily at the back of the class. I loved the pictures, the clothes, even the adverts. But most of all I loved the masthead and the index. Who were these glamorous humans with lovely-sounding names and exotic job titles?
Definitely. I find mastheads so fascinating I just stop there.
Vogue went man-in-charge in the 1960s.
In a reshuffling of power, the art director, Alexander Liberman, was apparently offered the editorship of American Vogue. To this he replied: “I am a man. I have no intention of becoming that involved with fashion.” So instead they created the title of editorial director, which he took with gusto. It meant a woman got to be editor-in-chief but he controlled her.
During the 1980s, editor-in-chief Grace Mirabella was going bananas under this unusual arrangement. For one, Liberman was a fan of Penthouse and Playboy, and kept trying to insert overly sexual content into Vogue, much to Mirabella’s disgust. She also had no agency to choose her own staff, since Liberman decided who was hired or fired. This meant she could lose an invaluable ally at the drop of a hat, or be forced to work with someone who didn’t fit on her team.
She was never included in conversations on the direction of the magazine. When she wanted to run a story on breast cancer, Liberman said: “Vogue readers are more interested in fashion than breast cancer.” When she wanted to cover the pro-choice movement, Liberman said: “Nobody cares.” When she wanted to write about women entering the job market, he said: “Women are cheap labour and always will be.”
And nobody cares.
Huh. I’m surprised, but I’m not. That reads so completely differently from what’s been going on at Teen Vogue, so I might have assumed that Vogue was going down that path as well. It’s disturbing, and strange, and also totally expected.
I thought that it was going to turn out that this was a man speaking (who self-identified as a “girl”).
Sadly, exploiting women has never gone out of style.
Millions upon millions of girls didn’t. Geez Louise.
I never bothered with fashion magazines. There are so many interesting things in the world, why watch a bunch of starved women modeling clothes I wasn’t interested in and couldn’t afford?
So much for the idea some people I know have that the incentive to anorexia comes from dangerously thin fashion models. I never paid them any mind, and still managed to soak up the negative messages about what it meant to be a woman.
Obviously that was sarcasm, yet it is also part of the explanation for why trans ideology convinces so many. People read the leading few lines of a story about trans people or terfs or whatever and then drop further reading, taking the sensationalist claims at face value.
A problem with all newspaper and magazine articles, unfortunately. Which is why articles often bury the important but controversial information low in the article. So finding out that the female serial rapist is actually a male pretending to be a female (i.e. trans) is left to those of us who read the entire story.
Re burying all the important information:
https://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2021/02/27
:-)