Joy Pullmann writes for the Federalist about a legacy media outlet’s recent “meltdown.”
Over the weekend, CNN published a hysterical feature wailing over feminism’s fading appeal to younger women. It comes a few months after a similar New York Times feature. Of course, the legacy publications ingeniously blame “hatred” and misogyny for younger women seeking life patterns outside feminism. You see, it’s not patronizing or psychotic to tell women we can’t make choices that Cluster B covens don’t approve of.
CNN’s opening replicates that of a Rolling Stone article from 2023, sock-puppeting feminist crankiness through a Zoomer who petulantly complains that alluring culture content tricked her into reading non-leftist ideas. CNN quotes 24-year-old “Gabrielle” (no last name provided), who “felt she was being lured in with perky pop culture content, only then to be exposed to right-wing propaganda.”
Oh no! Not accidentally encountering conservative ideas online! Internet censorship is supposed to protect us from such horrors. It’s a shocking bait and switch, see: find yourself agreeing with a critique of some pop star’s antics, then shut down your intuition and self-development after discovering you were agreeing with a yucky conservative!
“I found what they posted to be hateful and trying to trick people into reading their views,” Gabrielle allegedly complained to CNN about Evie magazine. Evie is a non-leftist young woman’s publication that focuses on culture and feminine topics when it is not urging girls to publicly waggle their bare breasts — because even the most “conservative” sensibilities today are still molded by porn.
The reality is, just like Donald Trump, Evie wouldn’t be considered “conservative” by our foremothers, and neither would other women’s “influencers” CNN targets, including Turning Point podcaster Alex Clark and former Daily Wire, now Fox News personality Brett Cooper. These women are exploring femininity under masculine stage names, eyebrows, and even lifestyles. Yet even their standard feminist career-first life arcs don’t excuse them from criticism by CNN, NYT, and Rolling Stone, because they don’t label themselves feminists while mostly living the type of lifestyle that feminists champion.
