- Re: Meghan. Irony alert. Archived Message
Posted by margo
on July 29, 2019, 11:21 am, in reply to "Meghan. Irony alert."
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Thanks for highlighting the article, Mary. Guardian showcases the Buck Palace and Vogue press releases without a word of critique for the ivory-tower fashion, perfume and make-up industries, exploitative sweatshops, endless consumerism, pressure on young girls and boys, etcetera, etcetera. The Guardian does occasionally run articles on these very subjects - but here we see Meghan's Vogue Press Release is respectfully ring-fenced by Editor Kath Viner and protected from any criticism. The key interview is with Michelle Obama, which ticks all of Meg's identity politics boxes and none of the intersectional ones. Vogue is the perfect glossy, exclusive, image-focused, sexist, top-end-corporate-sponsored vehicle for Meghan (and by extension, Royals and wealthy elites) to paint themselves as hip, happening, sensitive to issues, 'with the people' and 'open to the idea of change' ... by using such thrillingly radical and positively revolutionary phrases as:  Previous Message"The front of the magazine will feature 15 women who are “trailblazing changemakers, united by their fearlessness in breaking barriers”, according to Buckingham Palace. Real trailblazing change-makers who broke barriers would be smeared, side-lined or in the back of police vans before you could say "Meghan Sparkle" 
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