After reading GQ’s absurd feature article about Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, I am most struck by three things. The first is the admittedly fantastic photo of the congresswoman on the steps of the Capitol, which is one part of a long-running attempt to glamorize her with images. Another was the article’s constant fawning over the New York representative as a political powerhouse. A third is her ardent, apparently overriding desire to abort babies.
The article was so preposterous that I hate to even give it any attention by writing about it. But after reading the sheer delusion from both Ocasio-Cortez and the author, I couldn’t help myself.
Consider the hyperbole with which the author describes her.
This literary genuflection by the author continues with the representative’s take on the importance of abortion and even why and how it benefits men. “For almost every woman that has gotten an abortion, there’s a man who has either been affected or liberated by that abortion too. In this moment it’s really only going to be the vulnerability of men, and men talking to other men, that gives us the greatest hope of shifting things the fastest, soonest,” the New York congresswoman said.
You catch that? The way she suddenly starts talking up deadbeat sperm donors who want to have their own babies snuffed for their convenience? These are the men who will be the voices who will rescue legal abortion? It’s just gross.
The author continued his lavish praise: the “political voice of a generation” and the “most talented political communicator.” It’s par for the course that he and Ocasio-Cortez should only offer a left-wing perspective on abortion, oblivious to the lives it takes. But aside from this agenda-driven hyperbole, the article’s photographs definitely do help her image. You can imagine the Democrat addressing what the media consider to be her generation — a group of hopelessly promiscuous people who routinely use abortion as birth control, weeping about their loss of the “freedom” to abort fetuses.
Ocasio-Cortez is entitled to her opinion. She can hate the fact that the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. But millions of women are glad that it happened, including young women who don’t view the congresswoman as the voice of their generation.
