COMMENT POSTED TO A COLUMN BY HADLEY FREEMAN IN THE GUARDIAN
I’ve seen how
exclusive the fashion world is. Can the new Vogue change that?
Vogue?
If you want to see how empty and decadent fashion
photography can be, just see the Vogue photo show in this paper.
Appalling stuff, a mix of Rocky Horror Show, sadomasochism,
comic books, and childish bizarre imaginings.
Now, there indeed is something to be concerned with.
And does it really matter how many black faces are observed
at any given event?
This simplistic counting approach to people of color or
women for any event or organization has gone beyond sanity.
Different groups do have different interests, different
tastes, different goals.
By that logic, we should expect to be seeing more white
faces at hip hop concerts or in colleges featuring black studies and perhaps be
acting to remedy the "imbalance."
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Response to a comment
about counting the numbers of different types of people in involved in
anything:
It is a fixation of the present management of The Guardian.
And I think it trivializes the paper.
