About that Styles section...

After making a crack on the NYT Styles section yesterday, I’m now lost in the bowels of this killer The Awl piece — “Bonfire of the Inanities” — recommended to me by my buddy Graham. If you like snarky takedowns of male-dominated New York institutions and also have complicated feelings about “women’s content,” read on:

“Despite its youth, the section has a much longer history, one that encompasses the long effort of women in journalism to be taken seriously as reporters and as readers, the development of New Journalism, large-scale social changes that have brought gay culture into the mainstream, shifts in the way news is delivered and consumed, and economic consolidations and disruptions that the section has, sometimes in spite of itself, thoroughly documented and cataloged. The Styles section may well be pretty stupid sometimes. It’s also a richer and more complex entity than any of us would like to believe.”

Let me know what you think!!

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