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Yes, I've seen it. You can stop alerting me.

I know the NYT published an article today on one of my longtime topics: men in shorts. I am only posting about it to put an end to your worries that I somehow missed it. I consider it a very poorly thought out article ? shocking proof that the NYT passively observes fashion and lacks critical faculties. Excerpt:

?The idea of being threatened by the objectified male body has gone, the process is complete,? explained Aaron Hicklin, the editor in chief of Out magazine. ?Men are the same as women now.?

Per Out magazine!

... A question arises, though, of what respectability looks like when underwear is routinely worn as outerwear and people travel in get-ups that look like onesies and the combined effects of a cosmetic surgery boom and an epidemic of obesity have given us all an uncommon level of intimacy with the contours of one another?s bodies.

So grotesque flesh spillage legitimates further grotesque flesh spillage. You want to know "what respectability looks like"? Apply some standards! Don't just glimpse about getting ideas about how all the standards have gone to hell.

If you're not going to be an arbiter of taste, why are you writing fashion articles? Or is the truth that fashion criticism in the New York Times has devolved into pop culture reportage. Sad!

Full post as published by Althouse on July 31, 2008 (boomark / email).