Jul. 21st, 2019 07:18 am
vanity fair
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toastykittenI used to read Vanity Fair occasionally, and I didn't particularly relate to it all that much, but I thought a lot of the writing was good. I couldn't put my finger on it, though, about why I read it and I always felt like I ate something bitter afterwards. And then Christopher Hitchens wrote his "Why Women Aren't Funny" article (which I didn't realize was him until years later, which kind of broke my heart because I loved his writing) and then I was so mad I stopped buying it for years.
I was mildly interested when Graydon Carter left and then there was a bit of fluffy controversy over the new editor's fox tights. And then Anna Wintour, fashion boss, just ended it by gifting everyone at the party fox tights.
Anyway, I read the NYT interview with Graydon Carter, and he just comes off as so condescending about Vanity Fair's current direction that II decided to check out the current front page.
The lead article is the Jeffrey Epstein private island story, and 6 of the 7 articles on the front page are written by women. Also surprised to see further down that they covered the knife attack on Simon Yam-Tat-Wah, a famous and prolific Hong Kong actor. I'd only read stories about him in the FB subtle asian traits group.
Anyway, it's worth reading the Vanity Fair interview with Queer Eye's Karamo Brown, as he does go into detail on one of the most intense scenes in the series, where a black man, paralyzed by bullets, confronts the person who attacked him, and they both come out the better for it.
I was mildly interested when Graydon Carter left and then there was a bit of fluffy controversy over the new editor's fox tights. And then Anna Wintour, fashion boss, just ended it by gifting everyone at the party fox tights.
Anyway, I read the NYT interview with Graydon Carter, and he just comes off as so condescending about Vanity Fair's current direction that II decided to check out the current front page.
The lead article is the Jeffrey Epstein private island story, and 6 of the 7 articles on the front page are written by women. Also surprised to see further down that they covered the knife attack on Simon Yam-Tat-Wah, a famous and prolific Hong Kong actor. I'd only read stories about him in the FB subtle asian traits group.
Anyway, it's worth reading the Vanity Fair interview with Queer Eye's Karamo Brown, as he does go into detail on one of the most intense scenes in the series, where a black man, paralyzed by bullets, confronts the person who attacked him, and they both come out the better for it.
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