Sorry I am not too pleased with the washington post these days. They interviewed me for an article on abortion, then cut me from the article to give equal space to women who regret their abortions - even though that is more rare. Sounds awfully fair and balanced to me...
That's exciting to hear. I know a mother who is politically savvy and interested in setting up a club like this for the girls in our area. They're angry and we need to tap into it. I wish someone had a club like that when I was a teenager - but I'm an old and was a teenager in the 80s when no one I knew cared about much of anything but making a lot of money. Now that I think about it, I think I need a club like this now!
Kurt Loder was definitely a highlight of my MTV years. He was particularly good at delivering bad news with an appropriate tone, which is apparently a challenge for some news anchors/ readers.
"Donald Trump is going to be the president of the United States, Prince and David Bowie are dead, and also Teen Vogue is somehow contributing some of the most important journalism commentary on the rise of Donald Trump that exists. Oh, and the Chicago Cubs won the World Series."
I think it's the Rookie Mag effect. Judging by the children of my friends and coworkers, young women are FAR more socially and politically aware than young men. Sometime I think we spent so much time making sure our daughters had self esteem and stood up for themselves, we forgot to teach our sons not to be total assholes.
When I was in the ethical and sustainable fashion business years ago, I preferred reading Teen Vogue to Vogue, because there were fewer pages impregnated with toxic perfume for me to tear out and throw away. The article was excellent.
I was a faithful reader of "Seventeen" when I was a kid. In 1965, they published a story about a black girl and white girl being friends in spite of 1965. I wrote a letter to the editor (we used paper and stamps and stuff then) about how I wished all of us could learn to like each other as the story girls did (or something to that effect--loooonngg time ago.) The letter was published in the magazine's letter section later. My first big break in publishing! LOL. Anyway, my mother "lost" the issue some years later, and I've never found it again. My point here is that girls' magazines have not always been just about fashion and boys. I remember several short stories from that time dealing with issues of equality, among other things.
Not quite. The original editor of Sassy started Tavi Gevinson's RookieMag. Teen Vogue is tapping into the Rookie vibe, and the Rookie payload.
This is an interesting generation. I have one and they're angry!
Sorry I am not too pleased with the washington post these days. They interviewed me for an article on abortion, then cut me from the article to give equal space to women who regret their abortions - even though that is more rare. Sounds awfully fair and balanced to me...
Blacklisted for her publicationBlacklisted for my generationGo, Go, Go!
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Fuck it with a chainsaw.
That's exciting to hear. I know a mother who is politically savvy and interested in setting up a club like this for the girls in our area. They're angry and we need to tap into it. I wish someone had a club like that when I was a teenager - but I'm an old and was a teenager in the 80s when no one I knew cared about much of anything but making a lot of money. Now that I think about it, I think I need a club like this now!
I have a 16 year old and he's also angry. I don't think he reads Teen Vogue, but he's getting good information somewhere.
Kurt Loder was definitely a highlight of my MTV years. He was particularly good at delivering bad news with an appropriate tone, which is apparently a challenge for some news anchors/ readers.
Didn't it turn into XOJane eventually? I don't know a lot about the history of teen magazines, somebody teach me!
What about Stupidest Man On the Internet Chuck C. Johnson?
"Donald Trump is going to be the president of the United States, Prince and David Bowie are dead, and also Teen Vogue is somehow contributing some of the most important journalism commentary on the rise of Donald Trump that exists. Oh, and the Chicago Cubs won the World Series."
Is it possible we all took the brown acid?
I think it's the Rookie Mag effect. Judging by the children of my friends and coworkers, young women are FAR more socially and politically aware than young men. Sometime I think we spent so much time making sure our daughters had self esteem and stood up for themselves, we forgot to teach our sons not to be total assholes.
When I was in the ethical and sustainable fashion business years ago, I preferred reading Teen Vogue to Vogue, because there were fewer pages impregnated with toxic perfume for me to tear out and throw away. The article was excellent.
When Wired went behind the pay-wall I stopped reading.
Or that whole, "Jews return to Zion, comet fills the sky" poem was grossly mistranslated.
I was a faithful reader of "Seventeen" when I was a kid. In 1965, they published a story about a black girl and white girl being friends in spite of 1965. I wrote a letter to the editor (we used paper and stamps and stuff then) about how I wished all of us could learn to like each other as the story girls did (or something to that effect--loooonngg time ago.) The letter was published in the magazine's letter section later. My first big break in publishing! LOL. Anyway, my mother "lost" the issue some years later, and I've never found it again. My point here is that girls' magazines have not always been just about fashion and boys. I remember several short stories from that time dealing with issues of equality, among other things.