Ayn Rand Quotes Are More Despicable Than Bill Cosby Rape Memes?
I guess New York magazine doesn't care for Ayn Rand, but it looks like she's made a connection with the younger set.
From the article: "Last year, Nick Gillespie clued us in to Forever 21's "Unstoppable Muscle Tee," which allowed purchasers to boast to the world with (a variant of) Ayn Rand's words: "The question isn't who is going to let me, it's who is going to stop me."
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That shirt may have hit a chord, because it's sold out even as New York magazine belatedly discovers the phenomenon after returning from an extended wait for Sunday brunch. The garments apparently sent bloody marys a-churning among compilers of that magazine's Approval Matrix, which plots current happenings prominent and obscure along a Despicable/Brilliant axis and a Highbrow/Lowbrow axis. They found "Ayn Rand, misquoted as a feminist, now featured on belly t-shirts for teenage girls" more highbrow, but also more despicable, then "Bill Cosby rape-as-meme," "
From the article: "Last year, Nick Gillespie clued us in to Forever 21's "Unstoppable Muscle Tee," which allowed purchasers to boast to the world with (a variant of) Ayn Rand's words: "The question isn't who is going to let me, it's who is going to stop me."
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That shirt may have hit a chord, because it's sold out even as New York magazine belatedly discovers the phenomenon after returning from an extended wait for Sunday brunch. The garments apparently sent bloody marys a-churning among compilers of that magazine's Approval Matrix, which plots current happenings prominent and obscure along a Despicable/Brilliant axis and a Highbrow/Lowbrow axis. They found "Ayn Rand, misquoted as a feminist, now featured on belly t-shirts for teenage girls" more highbrow, but also more despicable, then "Bill Cosby rape-as-meme," "
All Comments
- 2Posted by Zenphamy 10 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.Now that's my kind of feminist. One that actually thinks for herself.| Permalink
- 3Posted by straightlinelogic 10 years, 10 months agoAyn Rand was the prototypical feminist, far more so than the screeching statist hags who have tried to claim the title over the years. Rand knew that for a woman to be a woman, she must first be an individual.| Permalink
- 5Posted by khalling 10 years, 10 months agoNew York's original "bad girl"| Permalink
