Rolling Stone Losing Editorial Control Again

Rolling Stone magazine is making a case for being more intellectually dishonest than the Huffington Post. Everybody needs a lamentable goal. Also an HR practice to 1099 as many 20-something white women out of Northeastern liberal arts colleges as possible. There’s a glut and a scarcity at the same time. Can you use “rape culture” as both a noun and a verb? You’re hired.

Within a few hours of the press finally pinning the Manchester concert bombing on an ISIS sympathizer, Rolling Stone published a super even handed article by “gender blogger” Emily Crockett about how the bombing had a clear misogynist motivation. She’s ahead of MI-5 in her evidentiary finding. Her sources must be tremendous. She could’ve closed that UVA rape case in half the time.

Crockett presumes that the choice of attack on an Ariana Grande concert and her empowered female audience was another ISIS terrorist attack specifically on women. Though nobody can point to another. Maybe she meant Christians or Jews. We have some evidence. Still, it’s Journalism 101 to state supposition as fact for the sake of an urbane social circle who will share this article on Facebook.

These girls and women weren’t just listening to any music, either – this was feminist music. Through her songs and public statements, Ariana Grande has taken a strong stand against sexism and the objectification of women, and she does so kindly, joyfully and without apology.

Claiming Ariana Grande as an MLK Jr. of gender equality is more than a reach. It’s idiotic. Is there no ombudsman at Wenner Media to review this shit? This is what you get for firing your real writers. Why not call Tyga a civil rights icon? He’s black. Ipso facto.

In case you’re wondering how these childish dreamscape pieces get published at major magazines, look no further than the comparison of ISIS to Republican lawmakers; with the latter being worse because shame is greater than suicide bombs. Ask the dead girls in Manchester how they feel about that summation. “We choose the patriarchal subjugation of the white male ruling class,” you can hear their tiny voices saying from heaven.

It hardly takes being a member of ISIS to balk at women embracing their sexuality without shame – plenty of Republican lawmakers show their discomfort with the idea by attacking basic reproductive and sexual health for women. Take away shame, and you take away one of humanity’s most powerful tools for keeping women in line; suicide bombs and oppressive laws might put women in their place, but shame is the glue that holds it all together.

Not all feminism is poorly argued. But all matters are poorly argued when insisting belief is fact. That’s the purview of religion. Certainly, there’s a great need to openly discuss the misogyny underlying most organized faiths, with Islam taking a lead in the beat down of the ladies. That earnest chat will never take place in a major corporate owned media outlet. We know why. Nobody’s paying for reasonably thought out writing anymore. So you get this. A randomly assembled myriad of Soul Cycle and pressed juice gender politics talking points raping a suicide bombing for context.

Rolling Stone should be ashamed. Again. Don’t wait up for the apology letter.

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