New York Magazine Sells Out Feminist Protesters
It’s surprising the few times New York Magazine’s tone isn’t shallow and gossipy, so I know that this incident shouldn’t even bother me, but in their Jan 4-11, 2010 Approval Matrix, somewhere between “Despicable” and “Highbrow,” the editors included “Protesters picket Ralph Lauren over ads in which models were Photoshopped to be skinner. It’s a worthy cause, but c’mon.”
So according to New York Magazine, it’s “despicable” that people stood out in the cold in defiance of yet another digitally warped, unhealthily thin image of a woman’s body instead of swallowing it like obedient little consumers. I understand not having the balls to protest the ways in which these monolithic corporations manipulate our insecurities so that we buy their products, but to take a jab at the people who are standing up for us all…
Something despicable is going on here. New York Magazine got that part right.
