UK Elle June 2021 : Olly Eley by Damon Baker

[FashionMuseDior]

He looks great, tattoos and all.

 

[Deleted member 45369]

Exactly, but this kind of topics need to be mentioned at least, for now. As part of the LGBTTIQ+ people, is hard to see my trans and nonbinary brothers and sisters being harassed by transphobes and transexclusionary movements every single day just because someone with big impact like JK Rowling keeps saying that trans/nb people are erasing women (I mean, how it's possible to erase half of the global population when trans/nb people are less than 2%?). So, I think this is a way to make a statement against those kind of speeches and give the LGBTTIQ+ readers a safe space where they are not discriminated because of their sexuality or gender id.

Of course a fashion magazine is better focusing on fashion. If you ask me, the cover is not so good and Elle can do it better. Just look back at what they did with Indya Moore or what W Magazine did with Casil McArthur or Carmen Carrera or Dazed with Krow, Oslo Grace and Indya: a powerful statement without ignoring fashion.

And yes, you can be LGBTTIQ+ and be an absolute bore. I can list a lot names.

Jk Rowling had a point though. I’ve never had a period in my life but if I were a woman, especially one her age who’s probably had her period every month for 30 years, and I had to read about “people who menstruate” when periods are a uniquely female burden that women have had to bear in order to literally keep this planet spinning it would rub me the wrong way too. It’s diminishing part of the Cisgender female identity. It’s not about Trans issues, it’s about giving some respect to the women who have to deal with their period every month in order to be blessed with the opportunity to have a child. Think about their journey and put some respect on their name. The writer should have given credit where credit was due and was called out for it. It then turned into something else entirely because it was JK Rowling.

and if you really think that’s it’s not possible for women to be treated like second class citizens because they “make up 50 percent of the population” well then you’re just not familiar with any history of the world.

 

[JPineapple]

“people who menstruate”

Actually, the words were “women and people who menstruate”, no one is disrespecting women. And of course is about trans issues, she even said that trans men are women that hurt their bodies because patriarchy made them hate their bodies because they’re not enough to be a woman, so they decides to transition just to lie themselves. Is more complex than “women and people who menstruate/gestate” and she with her big platform is making it hard for trans and gender non conforming people.

You’ll be surprised how much transexclusionary people harrass trans women and men here in Mexico just because of what they read in JK social media.

 

[vogue28]

The cover itself doesn't do it for me as much as last month's Vogue Paris knockoff but I have to firmly applaud Farrah Storr for steering British Elle in a new direction, giving us covers and cover subjects which break new ground. The January cover is already up for an award!

Laurie Bartley's story is absolutely GORGEOUS, love the colouring and the use of the colour red. The photography, styling, location and choice of model has come together and complemented each other perfectly.

 

[tigerrouge]

Fashion magazines are not our friends and they never have been. In the past, the best of them produced unforgettable images, and made us yearn for things we never knew we wanted, but these days, most of them are no better than QVC sales channels.

And they don't produce any of this content as a favour to us, it's because it fits in with their corporate plan for 2021 and beyond. Magazines are desperate these days. They weren't featuring minorities or sexual orientations on their covers back when times were good for them, back when they could have chosen to make a big - and bold - difference, commanding attention in traditional media and on the newsstand. But they'll do it now, when it's become commercially safer (and in some cases, a commercial necessity).

The counterpoint is: it's better to have any sort of representation than to have none. But to a fashion magazine, these labels for our identities are now as much a commodity to be neatly packaged and sold to an audience as all the other labels on their pages, for Vuitton and Prada and Dior.

I've gone on such an extended rant about this issue of Elle, that I'm going to have to go away and figure out whether there are actually any magazines that I still like.

 

[Deleted member 1957]

In principle, I agree with you -

At the same time, people are more than their sexuality, and people are bigger than labels - even the ones they proudly choose to put on themselves. Sexual identification is just one facet of what comprises a person and what they do with their days, or achieve over their lifetime, and a magazine on the level of UK Elle is unlikely to treat the issue with much sophistication, which is why they're better off focusing more on fashion with a side-order of social analysis, rather than trying to convince us they're got revolutionary content in their cover story.

Plus, it's possible to be LGBTTIQ+ and be an absolute bore.

Exact thing I was thinking! There's literally no punch in the cover or even the spread its all very neutral. There are lots of LGBTTIQ+ models and celebrities that are way more interesting in print which is what matters when it comes to being on a cover.
That said Scarlet Fever is stunning!