If Teen Vogue staffers want to prove their wokeness, they should quit their classist company

Washington Examiner ^ | 18 Mar 2021 | Tiana Lowe

[Rummyfan]

Once the must-read print magazines for then-middle school millennial girls, Teen Vogue has long been a shadow of its former self. Glossy print spreads boasting Marc Jacobs and Betsey Johnson merchandise for the (upper-middle class) younger set have been replaced by angry drivel lambasting capitalism and Israel and teaching "How To Masturbate If You Have a Penis." What used to be a print magazine catering to actual teenage girls with flirting and fashion tips now clearly desires to be an ethno-Marxist manifesto for bitter, unwed thirty-somethings living with two roommates and a cat in Bushwick.

So it should come as no surprise that Condé Nast's latest attempt to boost both the blog's brand and woke credentials backfired spectacularly, with an experienced black political reporter ousted by a staff mob in the name of racial correctness.

Teen Vogue's complete pivot into political screeds was succinctly signposted by its final print issue, a 2017 finale guest-edited by Hillary Clinton. Given that the blog hasn't pretended to care about anything related to fun or fashion in some time now, and that actual teenagers comprise just about 5% of its readership, it would make sense to hand the reins to an actual political reporter, in this case, Alexi McCammond. The former Axios reporter was put into a bit of a bind by her boyfriend, since-ousted Biden official TJ Ducklo, who sexually harassed another journalist investigating the then-undisclosed relationship between Ducklo and McCammond. The conflict of interest and ensuing scandal from Ducklo's actions made McCammond's role at Axios seemingly untenable, providing Condé Nast an easy opportunity to poach her to become Teen Vogue's new editor in chief.

[Rummyfan]

If you really believe that wealth inequality is the bane of our existence, racism the scourge of the Earth, the gender binary an “archaic” social construct, fur the antithesis of “sustainable” fashion, and all of these relics of elitism are all intertwined in the dogma of intersectionality, then you cannot possibly work at Teen Vogue in good conscience.

[traderrob6]

Wait.....what?

[ifinnegan]

This is part of the Ministry of Truth.

Direct association Democrats and the publication.

It is propaganda and psyops.

All propaganda all the time.

[reg45]

At least the New York Times can be used for fish wrap.