Unclench your fist. Turn the volume down. Turn
your dial back down from 12. President Trump is not going anywhere for quite
some time, so just deal with it.
Not just is everything hyper-politicized, the
lines in between lifestyle media, news media, and activism vanished into
irrelevance. Last Wednesday, the top Teen Vogue story, close to stories on how ‘Everyone
Dressed in Lingerie to the After Party,’ and ‘I’ll Never Use Regular Soap
Again…’ was this headline: ‘The U.S.
Voted ‘No’ upon Anti-Nazi United Nations Resolution.’ The headline ran over a
frightened photo of crowds holding banners, some that featured swastikas, along
with smoke within the background that suggested a terrorist attack. Just when
you flip through are you going to find that there isn’t any news there at all:
The United States votes against the nonbinding, meaningless UN gambit each year
due to the United States having this thing referred to as our First Amendment. Also,
Obama’s appointees opposed this resolution.
In the meantime, “Black-ish” celeb Tracee E.
Ross, earlier this month, addressed a Women of the Year conference that was
hosted by Glamour magazine. The speech was in regard to being 44 and childless,
yet it easily could’ve been given by some professor at Barnard rather than a
sitcom celeb.
According to Ross, she looks back and considers
all of the ways we are told that these two goals: having kids and being chosen,
are what makes us worthy . . . this narrow tale of ‘husband plus baby equals
woman.’ Plus, the patriarchy isn’t pleased with her right now. She is failing
at her function. ‘Pence is f—ing confused right now by me,’ She adds.
Really?
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