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 9 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.Now that's my kind of feminist. One that actually thinks for herself.| Permalink
- 3Posted by straightlinelogic 9 years, 5 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 9 years, 5 months agoNew York's original "bad girl"| Permalink
