FAIL: Magazine for Teens, Written by Old Men

anonymous

It is almost as fail as bourgeois magazines aimed at proletarians, trying to induce proletarians into false consciousness.

OH WAIT THAT'S ALMOST EVERY MAGAZINE EXCEPT MIDNIGHT NOTES, AUFHEBEN AND BETTER HOMES AND GARDENS.

anonymous

Gramsci on Hegemony and some analysis of the role of the dominant culture in keeping workers from politics eh?

#politics ain't #political much.

Caeristhiona

@Anonymous: You don't think Better Homes and Gardens is a bourgeois ploy?

anonymous

Shows how out-of-touch the people in control are.

The party system will die in the next 20 years. If not, I'm GOING TO BERMUDA!

anonymous

@Anonymous: ...Bermuda, which has a two-party system essentially divided along racial lines

anonymous

"Oh, gosh, nobody my age would read this! It must be written by old white men!"

"And I can't think of anyone I know who voted for Truman."

Sunspex

@Anonymous: PROTIP: Try not to use the words proletariat or bourgeois if you ever wish to be taken seriously. These words belong in high schools and socialist coffee shop meetings.

anonymous

@Anonymous: The guy in the back doesn't even look Aryan.

anonymous

@Anonymous: I just wonder why you have to hate a magazine because it doesn't jive with your own personal political beliefs? Aren't LOTS of magazines written by old white men? Like ... Maxim, Stuff, and GQ? Or how about Newsweek, Time, and USNews? Cosmopolitian is probably written by old white women.

So you don't agree with the magazine ... good for you. Why spew hate about it?

Hawkstream

@Anonymous: We have found a reader of the magazine.

anonymous

http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/the-9-best-headlines-from-conservative-teen-maga

anonymous

I don't understand what young people are suppose to conserve. The values of their parents? Ridiculous.

For me, being young means finding myself and creating my life as I see best. Not reading from magazines how it should be.

anonymous

@Anonymous: site under construction.

anonymous

@Anonymous: I want to actually read that article. Sounds like it'll be funny, that and the whole one about Reagan being the first black president.

anonymous

@Anonymous: So... You shouldn't read or listen to anything ever because that would taint your "omg Imma spechul snowflake" life?

Guess what, regardless of what you try to do, your life is influenced by EVERYTHING.

anonymous

@Anonymous: 0/10

anonymous

Just bought a subscription. Stay mad.

anonymous

@Anonymous: The only "Trying Way Too Hard" I see is this post.

anonymous

@Hawkstream: We found a generic insult.

anonymous

@Anonymous: You're judging the article by the title, instead of the actual story.

So much for liberals being the "hard fact" loving people.

stopsign

@Anonymous: Children should read about things like this more! Our purity is a gift from the lord!

anonymous

@Anonymous: Yes I'm judging it. I feel that abstinence only education is wrong for the modern world. Sex in a relationship (meaning not fucking everything that breathes) is healthy and allows the relationship grow, a fully grown relationship with two sexually mature adults is best or the world. I would find that article "funny" (in a sad sort of way) because most abstinence based arguments revolve around god wanting us to be "pure", or sex as some dirty curse, both of those lead to warped views of sex and could potentially lead to adults not willing to accept the healing and bonding properties of sex. Never said I was a liberal, I read that headline as a satirist.

Whaddup now?

anonymous

@Anonymous: I was talking about the Reagan article, but even then, abstinence is still "the best". 100% of not getting STDs, not having a baby, people not laughing at how small your equipment is... Abstinence is statistically the best.

Even then, abstinence is still taught along side "safe" sex in most schools (safe in quotation marks because nothing in this world is safe).

anonymous

so many 0/10's.
0/10 for all of you

shenkerism

@Anonymous: So would you like to be the one to teach hormone ridden teenagers that they can *have* sex just not *all* the time with everyone? When does a relation become ready to grow through sex? What if one person is ready for sex and the other isn't?

Look, all I'm saying is that sure, maybe sex helps a relationship grow, but we already know that abstinence does that too, and the curriculum is already there for abstinence. Granted, in a similar way to the "D.A.R.E." program, the curriculum doesn't always work, but that doesn't mean it should be abandoned.

shenkerism

@Anonymous: I've just finished the Reagan article, and I actually find it quite interesting. The effects of Reaganomics on black people. Now, I realize that was a different time, with a different world, and different politics, but that is an interesting point.

anonymous

@Anonymous: Freedom of speech is not freedom from criticism, bub.

shenkerism

@Anonymous: Criticism and saying something *shouldn't exist because it's so bad* aren't the same thing either. Bub.

anonymous

@shenkerism: That's just an issue of semantics, bub. You're taking things read on the internet at face value.

shenkerism

@Anonymous: If it's just an issue of semantics, maybe you should have picked a better word.

anonymous

@shenkerism: >implying I said that in the first place

I'm just defending others from the illogical types like you.

anonymous

@Caeristhiona: > You don't think Better Homes and Gardens is a bourgeois ploy?

That was a test to see if you were reading.







[spoiler]Of course Better Homes and Gardens has the interests of the self-emancipating working class at heart.[/spoiler]

anonymous

@Anonymous: Abstinence has a much higher failure rate than latex condoms.

anonymous

@Anonymous: Prove it.

anonymous

@Anonymous: >I'm just defending others from the illogical types like you.

Why aren't you attacking yourself, then?

fifel

@Anonymous: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6927733.stm

The British with a n=15000 study of adolescents have proved that abstinence has no effect on adolescent sexual behaviour.

Telling kids "what what in the butt" is more effective at preventing pregnancy than abstinence programs.

anonymous

@fifel: "They found abstinence programmes had no negative or positive impact on the rates of sex infections or unprotected sex, the British Medical Journal said."

Well, at least it wasn't positive, but great article, broski.

fifel

@Anonymous: The main reason to teach children to practice abstinence is because it is kinky. Seriously, it is a BDSM relationship between old christian men and adolescent children.

For preventing disease transmission I would recommend condoms.

For preventing pregnancy I'd recommend exclusive homosexuality.

anonymous

@fifel: "The main reason to teach children to practice abstinence is because it is kinky. Seriously, it is a BDSM relationship between old christian men and adolescent children."

Annnnnnnnnnd you lost me. You had me until you had to bring that up like an asshat.

anonymous

@Anonymous: Any conspiracy theory that uses the word proletariat and bourgeois is immediately bullshit. There are no exceptions to this rule. Seriously I'm glad you haven't called anyone sheeple yet.

anonymous

@Anonymous: "Proletariat" is a technical term in social science's class analysis to specifically refer to wage and salary earners, correspondingly "bourgeoisie" refers to those who subsist off profits from earning capital.

"Working class" and "1%" don't have the same coverage, they don't discuss a "relationship to production."

anonymous

@Anonymous: I am familiar with what the words mean, I'm just not a 20th century Bolshevik. I took these courses in college and only when reading really old books did these words ever come up. That and when some deranged wannabe in a Che shirt started yelling at the teacher.