WHICH BROCONOMIST WILL COME OUT ON TOP FOR GUTS AND GLORY #henwoodhitspickettywithafoldingchair #galbraithwiththepiledriver
— Aaron Bady (@zunguzungu) April 19, 2014

Two photographs of men who espouse some version or other of "performative" anti-sexism/racism etc. Aaron Bady goes by "Zungzungzu" and Elon Green's secondary twitter handles have included both "Not all Men" and "Jacob Fappington IV".

"Hi, If you don't mind, please remove my photo from your website. Thank you."

The corollary of "Bro" is "Babe". Below: the performative sexuality of Rachel Rosenfelt and Natasha Lennard, from their twitter profile pics. Bady writes for The New Inquiry. Rosenfelt is the publisher and founding editor. Lennard, captioning a pic with her mother, wrote that she "sets international standards for glamour and wonderousness". I'm not a moralist or a spelling fetishist, and I'm not opposed to glamour as such. The questions lie elsewhere.


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Adding things years later, and a few years after I thought I'd done it already!

2011, NYT covers the founding of The New Inquiry in the Style Section 

Gawker has a laugh.

The Atlantic, linking to itself (now archive.org)

And again, I thought I'd done this too. Back the Style Section

It’s a story familiar to anyone seeking to break into the New York publishing world. Willie Osterweil, 25, an aspiring novelist who graduated magna cum laude from Cornell in 2009, found himself sweeping Brooklyn movie theaters for $7.25 an hour. And the closest that Helena Fitzgerald, a recent Columbia graduate, got was an interview at a top magazine, during which the editor dismissed her literary career dreams, telling her, “C’mon, that’s not realistic.”

Which explains, in a way, how they all ended up on a crisp November night, huddled together at an invitation-only party at a cramped, bookshelved apartment on the Upper East Side.

Willie is now Vicky