Sorry I didn't check this thread before it went haywire. Yeah, I agree with whoever brought up the Jizz Smoothie post or whatever it was, and IdleRich's comments regarding. As someone who furiously refutes most liberal hairsplitting relating to prejudice, political correctness and other language police-ish tendencies, that's not really what's at issue here. It's frat-boy bullshit whose inclusion in the magazine/on the site exemplifies a side of its character you fans will try to scrub up as irony or subversion, when in fact it's just the kind of thing that wouldn't even make it to a Loaded magazine pitch meeting. Not because it's too subversive or ironic, or even misogynistic (although it may be that, we'll never know unless we're actually inside the minds of the people who made/approved it with an objective stethoscope -- hence the danger of labelling anything or anyone misogynistic when we don't actually know scientifically the motivation).
No, it's a lads mag. They have the budget to go to Mexico and North Korea, and they've strung along some fairly decent people for the ride on these foreign excursions, who've written what appears to be fairly good shit. They probably paid them well, which is a striking contrast to the many people who contribute to their project for nothing or pittance. But you know, the Daily Mail taps out a real killer of an article every once in a while. Yes, about liberal topics and sympathetically too. But none of us read the occasional decent article in the Daily Mail and proclaim it to be some kind of Jacobin proxy to our liberal debauchery, do we? No, because we know better, and we can see the forest beyond the occasional tree. The Mail has become shorthand for a certain kind of curtain-twitching bigotry we have all come to loathe, and rightly so. But Vice seems to get away with a similar level of judgmental, borderline bigoted crap, because it's read not by your mum or some Wiltshire homophone but by some of your friends using its Dos and Don'ts thing as some kind of arbiter of cool. Or if not cool-o-meter, a thing it's at least OK to laugh at while scorning the shallow, small-minded fodder the Mail throws up when it does an expose of a celebrity not wearing much make-up.
BTW the thing about 'transcending judgmental attitudes' wasn't an observation of the way alternative culture has come to operate. I'd say its almost parochial, tribal divisions are inspired and perpetuated by the likes of Vice, though, who profit from every douchebag in a Minor Threat t-shirt who scorns others for not fitting into the 'subculture'. But what I mean by 'transcending judgmental attitudes' is that's historically been the goal of any dude who identifies with a traditionally persecuted group. Now Vice is taking the signs and pointing them back at those very people. The very best of intentions are being co-opted into the regime with the worst.
Over and out.