Don't worry too much about these kinds of articles... Slate has an endless supply of rich young women writing these weird pastiches. They are entirely composed of cultural impressions, trendy instaphrases, vaguely racist stereotypes, clever wordplay, and fake social science (lots of words like 'power structure', 'interrogate', 'problematic').
There are now millions of (young and well-educated) people who ONLY imbibe cultural products like this article. They don't know ANYONE who works with their hands, or knows a Republican, or has 3 kids, or knows a working class person, or grew up in a poor area outside the United States, or spent time in prison. NO ONE. Every day the beliefs and self-perception of these people becomes stranger, and less real, and more self-obsessed. Slate is an ourobouros of rich, progressive, urban culture creatures-forever gazing at and consuming itself, apparently never dissuaded by the repulsive taste.
Don't worry too much about these kinds of articles... Slate has an endless supply of rich young women writing these weird pastiches. They are entirely composed of cultural impressions, trendy instaphrases, vaguely racist stereotypes, clever wordplay, and fake social science (lots of words like 'power structure', 'interrogate', 'problematic').
There are now millions of (young and well-educated) people who ONLY imbibe cultural products like this article. They don't know ANYONE who works with their hands, or knows a Republican, or has 3 kids, or knows a working class person, or grew up in a poor area outside the United States, or spent time in prison. NO ONE. Every day the beliefs and self-perception of these people becomes stranger, and less real, and more self-obsessed. Slate is an ourobouros of rich, progressive, urban culture creatures-forever gazing at and consuming itself, apparently never dissuaded by the repulsive taste.
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"Anyway, I cannot end this piece without giving this sentence of Heather Schwedel the last word, because it’s pretty wild.
'Sydney Sweeney’s boobs in particular have become a proxy for a larger culture war' ... "
"Seminal" influences and "precious bodily fluids" and all that ... 🙄😉🙂