The New Hotness
In the pages of Teen Vogue.
Because masked misfit sociopaths are inspirational and totes dreamy.
According to Teen Vogue, Antifa’s behaviour, a collective Cluster-B disorder, is merely “militant self-defence.” A construal that, shall we say, bears little relationship with the videos linked above, or others in the archives. It seems we’re supposed to believe that seeking out gratuitous confrontation and gleefully threatening to kill onlookers, simply for onlooking, is the height of bravery now. And harassing and physically threatening random elderly and disabled people, for trying to use a pedestrian crossing, is totally where it’s at, cat.
It’s a “woke brand,” you see.
Update, via the comments, where Liz notes this,
In one year, Teen Vogue’s readership has nearly halved. Less than 5% of their audience consists of actual teenagers.
Then adds, rather pithily,
So what kind of creeps are reading this shit then?
Well, indeed. What kind of adult searches out a magazine with lots of sexualised content – how to masturbate, use sex toys, etc – and which is supposedly aimed at teenage girls? I doubt there’s an answer that isn’t at least somewhat unsavoury. That unhinged and heavily-airbrushed far-left politics, from Marx to Antifa, should be the new connective tissue at Teen Vogue, the obvious and complementary glue, to the extent that its editors describe their readers as “activists,” is possibly something to ponder.
Also, open thread.
However, I was a big fan of 2000AD
2000AD never really thrilled me in quite the same way as those rotary racks of imports. For several years as a wee seedling, it was difficult to walk past a comic rack without rummaging for treasure. I remember, around the time Star Wars was in cinemas, being wowed by Michael Golden’s art on Mister Miracle. On the last day of a seaside holiday, I wanted something to read on the journey home. Alas, I’d ploughed through the good stuff by midweek – dozens of the things – and was reduced to buying an issue of Black Orchid.
Farnsworth, agree pretty much with all of your points. (for the record, I don’t agree with anyone on everything ever…even myself). My go-to on much of this is the Diamond Princess study, but that one is getting a little long in the tooth by rapidly developing information. Yet OTOH, I have yet to see anyone refute it and I still see it referenced in more recent material. I am looking forward to more concrete analysis/studies based on serological testing as it becomes more available.
Also, another monkey wrench I have yet to seen get thrown in, Bayesian statistics. Which I find most interesting because laboratory test for disease is pretty much the textbook example presented in nearly every…umm…textbook. Though I’ve often suspected the examples given exaggerate/massage the false positive/negative values for dramatic effect. So maybe that’s why. Though politically speaking…
I could never understand why they aren’t funny.
Well, I think some of them were:
Marvel in the mid-70s often indulged in self-satire, especially when Steve Gerber was scripting.
WTP, the main difficulty with the Diamond Princess studies is that it is hard to extrapolate the numbers to the general population given the crew were mostly younger males (and one would assume free of any serious pre-existing conditions), the passengers skewed to the elderly and about 50/50 male to female, and able to afford being on a cruise ship. IOW, not exactly a typical cross section of most places in the world. The small population is also a problem – incidence is 167/1000, cause specific mortality 1.9/1000, and CFR 1.1.
Of course that translates to 16729/100,000 for incidence, and 189/100,000 for cause specific mortality rate, if you want to go with /100K to match a country, a patently absurd trying claim that could translate to the rest of the world. The CFR is still the same, though, which shows why it is useful.
Surprise ending.
Surprise ending.
Well done, dad. And as someone notes in reply, it’s curious how the gangsta patois suddenly evaporates when dad is there.
During the mid to late 1980s, I blew a lot of my time and money at the comic book shop.
OK boomer
Shut up.
I never cared for Marvel / DC. I wanted the alternatives, and it seems, looking back, it was a golden age for all kinds of comics. I got into the reprints (Steve Canyon, Prince Valiant), the weird underground stuff — Dori Seda, of blessed memory; R. Crumb’s collected works being reprinted by Fantagraphics — and the really weird indie stuff: Reid Fleming, world’s toughest milkman; Cerebus; Elfquest; Omaha the Cat Dancer; Matt Howarth’s Post Brothers; American Splendour; Cutey Bunny; Love and Rockets; Sandman; Alan Moore’s stuff.
The only mainstream stuff tended to be out there as well, like Bill S.’s Electra, the Duck; and the Batman revival under Miller.
I don’t buy comics anymore (my first wife was appalled the first time I took her to the store with me) and time moved on. I still buy the Girl Genius volumes at the local comic store, and the occasional Deadpool, but I can’t muster the interest (and the money) to go beyond that.
While it was fun nattering on about my wastrel childhood, I would still recommend the above books, should anyone care to try. Elfquest probably wouldn’t hold up, and Omaha went off the rails after the first dozen issues, but I still think they’re worth reading, if you like that sort of thing.
Reid Fleming still holds up. Sandman does, too. Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows did a wonderful job with Providence, which is sort of about how HP Lovecraft happened.
Well done, dad.
Agreed. It’s interesting how today we praise an act that would have been common place when I was that boy’s age. Unfortunately there are as many or more parents today who would go down to the store to give the employees more abuse for “mistreating” their spawn.
I blew a lot of my time and money at the comic book shop.
The only comic book I read with any regularity was “Archie.” I just never got into them. Instead, I spent my hard earned money on Mad Magazine, Cracked, National Lampoon and the odd monster magazine. One summer at my Uncle’s cottage I discovered Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine and Ellery Queen Mystery and I’ve been a reader ever since.
Met the girl who would eventually become my wife by chatting over an issue of Sandman in college. And deep in the bottom of a drawer somewhere are my treasured ancient t-shirts: The Tick strolling in front of a bunch of ninjas cleverly disguised as a hedge; Death (from The High Cost of Living); and I Survived Jaka’s Story.
The years on either side of 1990 really were a magical time at the comics shop.
Oh good lord…
This bit especially jumped out at me: Norway’s Prime Minister, Erna Solberg, had the innovative idea of using television to talk directly to her country’s children…. Solberg held a dedicated press conference where no adults were allowed. She responded to kids’ questions from across the country, taking time to explain why it was OK to feel scared.
For the children. Sure, of course. No way on Earth that was about infantilizing one’s electorate while maintaining plausible deniability when the few remaining adults protested against the insult…
Hi Governor Squid,
I like the idea of hedge ninja!
@Daniel Ream
Re:
. I saw an open letter to Marvel from a comic shop owner a couple of years ago that claimed that 50% of independent comic shops had closed in ten years, and this was almost entirely due to Marvel wilfully sabotaging their own brand and causing the hardcore fans to cancel their pull lists
Any chance of a link to that? Google found me a hundred open letters to Marvel, but not the one you mentioned…
Met the girl who would eventually become my wife by chatting over an issue of Sandman in college.
Around 20 years ago, I dragged The Other Half into a couple of comic shops, by then largely out of nostalgia. I wouldn’t say he was enthused so much as patient and resigned. A couple of years later, he asked, rather cheerfully, if I wanted to go for a drive. We ended up in the car park outside an unglamorous electronic oddments shop. Clearly, some kind of payback.
And they say romance is dead.
Likewise, though in my case the time was spent looking at a bewildering selection of colours and thicknesses of knitting yarns.
Norway’s Prime Minister, Erna Solberg, had the innovative idea of using television to talk directly to her country’s children…. Solberg held a dedicated press conference where no adults were allowed.
Am thinking of Koko the Clown for some reason.
Growing up through the 70’s I loved the British comics: Dandy, Beano. They were just fun… Our neighbour was a cleaner for an American family who had a son a few years older than me and his Marvel/DC comics used to find their way to me when he’d finished with them. I didn’t think much of it at the time as I was too busy out enjoying myself, but thinking back now, don’t all those american comics have some sort of religious significance? – Some all-conquering super-being is going to arrive and save the world….. I couldn’t handle it at Sunday school and see no reason to think differently now.
don’t all those american comics have some sort of religious significance? – Some all-conquering super-being is going to arrive and save the world.
That pretty much only describes Superman. Arguably Thor.
Any chance of a link to that?
IIRC, it was shown on the Diversity in Comics/Comics MATTER YouTube channel.
I’m vaguely aware of r/K theory, though I’m not familiar with Anonymous Conservative. Care to elaborate?
Ahem:
http://www.anonymousconservative.com/blog/
At the same site, the theory:
https://www.anonymousconservative.com/blog/the-theory/rk-selection-theory/
Cheers
Ahem
Thanks.
Daniel, that’s quite surprising. Most companies test and focus-group every new product. No wonder Marvel isn’t doing so well.
ThisBook sounds pretty transphobic to me.
Speaking of Antifa.
Farnsworth M Muldoon quoted: “Forthwith the use of gender pronouns such as quote he/his and she/her unquote are not to be used when drafting pers. Members will be referred to by rank and name or by using gender-neutral pronouns such as they/their.”
Remember when Jordan Peterson talked about “compelled speech”?
I’m just trying to imagine how tedious it’s going to be when we all have to phrase our observations as, “General Woke’s head is so far up General Woke’s backside that General Woke needs to unbutton General Woke’s jacket in order to inspect General Woke’s troops.”
Or should it be troupe? It’s so hard to tell any more.