This has got to be parody, right? The website where it appears is the only reason I wonder. If it were any other space, I’d be sure it was a hilarious, if somewhat cruel, mockery of a materialistic, dumb airhead trying to fake a political conscience because it’s like totally fab.
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That’s literally how I’d write an article for a socially conscious women’s magazine that needs advertising and product placement to survive.
The only changes would be to put in more blurbs with prices and links to the actual campaigns.Other features: Instead of using amortization to convince readers to buy a pink pashmina leopard onesie (“If you wear this every day for 10 years, it’s only a dollar per wear which makes it less expensive than buying it at Forever 21 for $10!”), use the same idea to push birth control methods and sex toys. Or something like this commercial I saw for high heels a while back: “Give yourself a raise!”
Most magazines and publications never made their money from readers directly. If you look in any alternative free paper, there are (or were) always ads for porn and sex services, which pay the bills.
(Can you tell I’ve read far too many women’s magazines?)
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You are right, this is totally a Cosmo Girl! The woman has a big future in glossy magazines.
The question remains, though. Is she being funny on purpose? Or is this completely earnest?
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Is there anything on Femininste that hasn’t been farcical, since the site’s charming (clueless but pretty and entertaining) founder Jessica Valenti left to enrich herself writing for The Guardian?
Don’t you understand “intersectionality,” Clarissa? You have to stand for everything, all at once, or you’re a hypocrite who can’t stand for ANYTHING. So shake the stardust out of your privileged eyes.
Wake up or shut up!
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I thought intersectionality meant playing who’s the biggest victim. 😋
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You know, this was hilarious. I was surprised to see something like that, and glad I did not stop reading after noticing the mention of BDS, which was somehow the first thing I noticed after arriving at the site.
Favorite bits:
\ resulted in overextending myself less than 24 hours after Trump was announced as the President-elect
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It’s not worth running myself into the ground for Trump or any other oppressor
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a space of healing that includes an altar, an adorable kitten calendar, and a board full of notes of gratitude.LikeLike
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The whole thing is priceless. The altar and the kittie calendar must be there on purpose to troll the Evangelicals.
I can’t believe she’s doing it without a trace of irony.
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The piece is certainly funny, who has room in their house (let alone their life for a ‘healing space’? And as far as I know, intersectionality was what we all have to practice when the traffic lights are broken…
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Hilarious comment about intersectionality! 😍
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