Publications like Teen Vogue once might have been called women’s magazines or fashion magazines, but we’re well beyond that point now, with Teen Vogue in particular standing out from the pack with stories about white people adopting “digital blackface” through their choice of animated GIFs and high school kids sending vagina-shaped lollipops to the Trump White House.
Allure isn’t about to be outdone, though, and as racial tensions flared this weekend with a violent and deadly meeting of white supremacists and anti-racist protesters in Charlottesville, Va., Allure is offering the hottest of hot takes on how white women can fight white supremacy … and if you assumed the answer was centering white vaginas, well, you’re wrong.
Dear white women, there is nothing heroic about not having sex with Nazis: https://t.co/7H0okA5ZYi pic.twitter.com/hFbs4QnitN
— Allure (@Allure_magazine) August 15, 2017
The headline’s a bit confusing, but writer Morgan Jerkins warns against assuming Nazis are all toothless hillbillies; some are “erudite, well-dressed, and oftentimes physically attractive.” The answer, though, isn’t to have sex with Nazis; rather, the piece uses the example of Emmett Till to explain that “white women’s sexuality … often [has] been weaponized against people of color.” Actually, the whole piece seems to suggest, in a very roundabout way, that women’s sexuality just be left out of the argument altogether. Got it?
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https://twitter.com/SonnyBunch/status/897547584214007809
Sounds like someone had sex with a Nazi recently
— Ben Domenech (@bdomenech) August 15, 2017
https://twitter.com/SonnyBunch/status/897547924091043840
So sad that I'm not a hero anymore
— haunted dog (@zandywithaz) August 15, 2017
https://twitter.com/SonnyBunch/status/897548097986985984
But… not having sex with Nazis is my superpower.
— Nando (@TooOldTooStupid) August 15, 2017
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Hey white women who voted for Trump; Jessica Valenti says you’re there in Charlottesville in spirit https://t.co/NboRlwtg5r
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) August 13, 2017
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