Vanity Fair Regrets Video Telling Hillary Clinton To Take Up Knitting, Drop Politics

[DonViejo]

Following online backlash over a video featuring editors at Vanity Fair's Hive discussing jokey New Year's resolutions for Hillary Clinton, the magazine issued an apology for the video yesterday, per Deadline. The statement reads: "It was an attempt at humor and we regret that it missed the mark."

What happened: The video suggested that Clinton take up knitting and set aside any future political ambitions, leading some on Twitter — like actress Patricia Arquette and Verrit founder Peter Daou — to brand the video as sexist.

Link to tweet

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https://www.axios.com/trumps-wild-first-year-of-the-presidency-in-one-chart-2520361428.html

[PragmaticDem]

1. It was sexist and insulting!

[Laurian]

2. Pissed me the hell off!

And I have been a Vanity Fair subscriber in the past.

[Cracklin Charlie]

3. Just gonna ditto Patricia.

Absolutely perfect response!

Edit to add: please recommend this thread!

[get the red out]

4. Sexist beyond words

How could they imagine putting out this video? Did they think the Fox News viewers would become Vanity Fair fans? Disgusting. They are probably just sorry it didn't play well, hating Hillary Clinton is supposed to be the fail safe attitude in the media after all.

They also used one of my hobbies, knitting, as a put-down; fuck them!

[Guilded Lilly]

8. My extremely intelligent mama was a goddess of knitting! Her skill was

awe inspiring. Her creations were Art.
Yeah, Vanity Fair failed, bigtime.

[Glorfindel]

5. Extremely poor judgment on the part of Vanity Fair

I hope they'll fire whoever is responsible. I won't hold my breath expecting it, though.

[Guilded Lilly]

6. One of the biggest obstacles in fighting the sexist/misogyny/disrespect cultural disease...

Is that it is so deeply and insidiously ingrained and accepted in our society. By all.

From hiding behind supposed humor to simpleton snarks on message boards to full-on open disrespect of females, the mindset in entrenched deeply in society and will take exhausting measures to change. It’s almost as natural as breathing at some point.

Gender entitlement, insecurity, lack of confidence, meanness, weak character, ignorance...all play a part. Males practice it (sometimes without awareness), females accept it (often with same lack of awareness as well).

Damn tough to change but long overdue. And it will encounter serious adjustment along the way from everyone.

[obamanut2012]

7. It was sexist, horribly sexist

As well as ageist.

I have had a sub to VF for many years, and I ahve emailed them telling them I will not renew.

"Missing the mark" is not an apology.

I am DONE with this continous sexist shit.

[Cha]

14. they gave trumputin fodder to

slime and gloat, also.. they need to apologize for that, too.

[Blue_Adept]

9. Coastal elitism at its finest

[Paladin]

10. Thanks for the regrets. Now go back to fucking yourselves. (nt)

[JNelson6563]

11. In view of recent happenings regarding sexism

this is the epitome of tone deaf. Seriously, text book shit.

[Cha]

13. So dead on, Julie!

Serious textbook tone deaf shite!

[JNelson6563]

17. Good to see you Cha!

I hope your year ahead is a great one!

[Cha]

19. Same to you, Julie!

[uponit7771]

18. +1

[riversedge]

12. Vanity Fair did a mean stupid thing.

[aikoaiko]

15. It was their version of "Bye, Felicia"

I never really liked 'Bye, Felicia' either, but it was popular here for a while.

[susanna]

16. It was worse than a non-apology.

"We regret that we missed the mark."

Regret? Missed what mark? That they wanted to be only semi-sexist assholes, instead of the complete ones they ended up being?
Fuck Vanity Fair.

Maybe they are the ones who should take up knitting for the New Year. They might grow some patience and some problem-solving skills.

Yeah, I knit.