September 28, 2026

YOU WENT FULL WEIMAR, MAN. NEVER GO FULL WEIMAR: Guess Who New York Magazine Featured in Its Men’s Style Issue.

The Left has spent years erasing women in the name of trans ideology. From relabeling women as “egg producers” or “womb owners” or “birthing persons” to featuring men cosplaying as women on the covers of magazines and in awards, it’s been a problem for some time. Now the Left is doing the same thing to men in New York Magazine’s Men’s Style issue, by featuring Elliot Page shirtless in the spread.

 

Exit quote: “This is some next-level sarcasm. But it speaks to a larger truth about the message it sends to young, impressionable girls. Page is not a man. She is a woman, and even if New York Magazine pretends otherwise, that reality does not change.”

As Tom Wolfe wrote in “The Me Decade,” published in 1976, in a very different iteration of New York magazine:

The old alchemical dream was changing base metals into gold. The new alchemical dream is: changing one’s personality—remaking, remodeling, elevating, and polishing one’s very self … and observing, studying, and doting on it. (Me!) This had always been an aristocratic luxury, confined throughout most of history to the life of the courts, since only the very wealthiest classes had the free time and the surplus income to dwell upon this sweetest and vainest of pastimes. It smacked so much of vanity, in fact, that the noble folk involved in it always took care to call it quite something else.

As farsighted as Wolfe could be, I doubt even he could imagine the craziness to come in the 21st century.

UPDATE:

Posted at 8:14 pm by Ed Driscoll