The leftist mind virus has well and truly killed off the once-iconic Vogue magazine, which, for decades, was the "beauty bible" for women who aspired to elevate their look or simply wanted to gawk at the haute couture fashions on its pages. Most of what Vogue featured was the stuff of fantasies – and something most of us could never afford to buy, but it was still fun to thumb through its pages.
I'm a Gen-X girl, so the Vogue of my younger years was something you picked up as an indulgent treat if you had a long flight ahead of you. If you wanted a spicier take on womanhood, you went with Cosmopolitan, but Vogue gave you the fantasy and the fashion that was missing from your everyday life.
That was then, this is now.
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Now, Vogue apparently exists for one reason: to tear down beauty. Secondary to that is serving as a home to queer writers who use its pages to spew she/he/her/his/they/their intersectional feminist toxicity and delusional leftist fever dreams.
As you may have read here on the pages of RedState, French actress, sex symbol, and animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot – a true icon – died last Sunday at the very accomplished age of 91. You'd think the passing of a legendary beauty like Bardot would merit a flood of touching tribute on the pages of Vogue (she's got a style of top named after her, for goodness sake!). There were a few token homages, but they were overshadowed by one particularly odious retrospective.
Yes, the magazine used the occasion of Bardot's death to publish something entitled, "Mourning Brigitte Bardot Doesn't Mean Absolving Her," in which a queer author by the name of Emma Specter proceeded to excoriate the late actress for the “ugliness of her Islamophobia, sexism, and far-right apologia.”
‘Queer’ Vogue writer and food author bashes Brigitte Bardot after her death, saying her beauty should not mask the “ugliness of her Islamophobia, sexism, and far-right apologia.”
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‘Queer’ Vogue writer and food author bashes Brigitte Bardot after her death, saying her beauty should not mask the “ugliness of her Islamophobia, sexism, and far-right apologia.”
Vogue Magazine journalist Emma Specter has said the actress had “blatantly bigoted” views and has criticized her in a lengthy article because she “railed against immigration.”
The writer, who also wrote a book on food binging and being ‘fat’ has accused the late actress of embodying an image of “outright racism.”
“Instead of limiting our mourning to looking nostalgically back at old photos of a beehived, bikini-clad Bardot and playing “Bonnie and Clyde” on a loop, let’s ask ourselves the hard questions about how Bardot’s embodiment of prototypically “perfect” white womanhood relied upon systemic marginalization and outright racism.”
Source: Vogue
Vogue stealth-deleted its X post promoting Ms./Mr./Mx. Specter's bilious offering after getting fierce backlash from users, but the article is still up, so we're able to give you a taste of the woke nonsense:
It’s perhaps only natural that so many eulogies to Bardot focus on her positive qualities, from her influential style to her devotion to animals. But in this moment of steadily rising Islamophobia, it’s hard to square those celebrations with the opinions of a woman who railed against immigration and publicly stated her opposition to the so-called “Islamisation of France” in her 2003 book A Cry in the Silence. Few would dispute Bardot’s part in embodying and advancing the sexual revolution, but was that role—or any other facet of her legacy—powerful enough to outweigh her history of hate speech?
I speak woke, so let me translate.
After stepping away from the limelight, Brigitte Bardot embraced a deep commitment to French cultural identity and animal welfare, leading her to challenge practices she saw as incompatible with those values, which included halal animal slaughter and what she called the “Islamisation” of France.
That's it. It was nothing more than a mature woman with vast life experience who loved her country, and all animals, standing up for what she believed to be true, beautiful, and right. And that kind of beauty, to writers like Specter, is an existential threat to the rot that's eating away at their souls.
This is nothing new, of course. I wrote a piece in The Federalist nearly a decade ago about the decline of the beauty blogosphere, in which abortion was being touted as the greatest good in society, and the election of Donald Trump, of course, being society's downfall.
Feeling unwelcome in the worlds of beauty and fashion isn’t new ground for conservative women. The beauty bibles—publications like Cosmopolitan and Vogue—have long pandered to women who were liberal enough to buy into the nonsense published within their pages (or affluent enough to afford it). A recent Cosmo article declared, “Trump’s ‘Pro-Life’ Policies Will Cause Women to Die” (see: wailing; gnashing of teeth). Not to be outdone, Teen Vogue produced the ultimate gift guide for your friend who’s having an abortion. Because let’s celebrate two lives being ruined!
So, here's where we're at: instead of making others jealous of the beauty, decadence, and fantasy (formerly) featured on its pages, publications like Vogue are now using the jealousies of its writers and its hard-left editorial bent to drive away women and drone its way into obscurity.
Rest in peace, Brigitte Bardot – legend, icon, and friend to animals.
