The October issue of Vogue is giving Kamala Harris the Michelle Obama and Jill Biden treatment, where they try to make her into a superstar spokesmodel. She appears on the magazine’s digital cover in a photograph by Annie Leibovitz.
First of all, this is as airbrushed as a Joan Rivers appearance on any magazine or TV show. Kamala Harris looks 39 years old instead of 59 years old here, and I will submit that was a mistake.
She is running for a very important job and would be the first female president. You want her to have gravitas. Just let her have the lines, Vogue. The lines are not a problem you have to erase for women who are serious and asking for a serious job. She wants to be in command of our military, so stop with the airbrushing.
On another note, what message does it send to little girls? You can become president – just as long as you don’t age? You can’t age because, as a woman, you have to be both hot and credible?
This is Anna Wintour’s doing – the woman who judges us all by our stupid fashion. Right now, she is launching next year’s Met Gala theme. And guess what it is: ‘Black Men and Dandyism.’ What is that? Somebody tweeted this is a great way to get a bunch of out-of-touch celebrities canceled if one fell swoop. That is true.
The cover is one thing, but the article by Nathan Heller will make you throw up a little in your mouth. Here is a flavor:
…I ask what her first call would be on reaching the Oval Office. “One of my first calls — outside of family — will be to the team that is working with me on our plan to lower costs for the American people,” she says.
What does that mean? Who is on that team? How are they going to do that? That is something people would talk about at the kitchen table tonight. Then, he goes on to write:
…When Biden’s announcement caused that pulse to drop a beat, the world looked to Harris with hopes and doubts… Now, at her dining room table with pizza boxes, a trusted unbathed staff, and a phone, she was being called on to do something unprecedented in American history: to mount, and win, a presidential race in three months, as a woman of color, with a felonious former leader as the opposition and the future of democracy said to be at stake…
Isn’t Kamala Harris trying to get black and Latino men to vote for her? I don’t know that this is the way to do that. Go to GQ, go to Sports Illustrated, go someplace where men go, which is not Vogue. I don’t get it.
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