A magazine for young girls might have become the first children’s magazine to endorse a presidential candidate, and it picked — you guessed it — Elizabeth Warren.
“We have followed the Democratic primaries carefully, and we whole-heartedly believe that Elizabeth Warren’s spirit, compassion, intelligence and well-researched positions on the issues that matter to us most as parents of girls make her the very best choice to be the next president of the United States,” said Kazoo magazine’s Editor-in-Chief Erin Bried in explanation.
Her post goes on to say that Kazoo may be the first children’s magazine to endorse a presidential candidate, and why should it stay out of politics? Politics affect children’s futures.
True, but why Warren? Bried’s explanation lists the “climate crisis,” education, healthcare, and gun reform as issues on which Warren has taken the correct stance. Never mind that candidates such as Bernie Sanders have a similar “plan for that.” In this magazine’s endorsement, the thing that distinguishes Warren from other candidates is that she’s a woman.
She’s not just any woman, though. She’s a Democrat. And that makes her automatically praiseworthy. Kazoo boasts contributors from Ruth Bader Ginsburg to Ellen DeGeneres, from Jane Goodall to Stacey Abrams. But no Nikki Haley? Color us shocked.
A magazine marketed toward girls ages 5-12 might want to avoid such blatant partisanship. Kazoo calls itself a magazine “for girls who aren’t afraid to make some noise.” Nevertheless, it has persisted in encouraging noise on only one side.
Not that any of this is shocking. Teen Vogue, “the young person’s guide to saving the world,” has gone off the rails in its switch from pushing fashion to promoting prostitution and condemning capitalism. Elle magazine, growing similarly political, is all-in for Warren. All of these women’s magazines purport to be about and for women, as a single bloc, but it’s pretty clear that there’s only one kind of woman they support.
All of this echoes Sigourney Weaver’s empty feminist platitude at the Oscars: “All women are superheroes.” But when feminists, especially those in the media, say they support women, they really just mean one type.
