Move over, Barack and Michelle Obama! Apparently, America just got a new first family…
According to Cosmopolitan, the Kardashians are the new reigning family. The magazine recently unveiled the cover for its November 2015 issue, featuring the [Kardashians].
(NBC TODAY, October 5, 2015)
Not that the Obamas, America’s real first family, have anything to worry about, mind you.
But, for the sake of what little remains of common decency, professional respect, and natural beauty, I urge you to boycott this issue.
Given that the Kardashians have left absolutely nothing about their plastic bodies and manufactured lives to the imagination, I trust the categorical imperative for joining this boycott is self-explanatory.
Kris Jenner and her family of social-media thotties are as politically clueless as they are socially shameless. But Cosmopolitan’s (White) editors should have known better than to expropriate the title of “America’s First Family” – even if only for an issue on the narcissistic and brain-dead world of social media.
All the same, let me hasten to note that, unlike far too many social critics, I do not begrudge the Kardashians their success. Not least because it says far more about the dumbing down of popular culture (where snarky tweets pass for public debate and photoshopped pictures for great novels) than it does about their admittedly admirable branding … of so little for so much.
Enough said?
* This commentary was originally published yesterday, Tuesday, at 8:54 a.m.