Tom Fiord is the editor-in-chief taking credit for this X-Mas issue.

Soiling or slightly tearing a few copies of VOGUE at your local newsstand would be a nice way to convey a message to corporate owners… Children are SO messy…

What a pathetic smear job… Pseudo-quotes, trials of intent, wholesale character assassination… December 17 is becoming a Day of Righteous Violence Against Feminists who resist the sex industry.
The notion that to convincingly expose men’s sexual hatred of women – as formerly prostituted women often do (read Rebeca Mott, for instance, at http://rmott62.wordpress.com ) is to fuel it, is absolute sophistry. Its application would have silenced feminist advocacy against sexist violence from Day One.

Patriarchy wouldn’t last 5 seconds if it didn’t manage to keep women at their mothers and stepmothers’ throats. Check out Adrienne Rich ”Of Mother Born” and Luce Irigaray’s ”And the One doesn’t stir without the Other” (http://www.jstor.org/pss/3173506).
Macleans’s trick will probably be to present this alleged pattern as ”new,” with heavy emphasis on the Palins (NOT Eric…).