Glad someone finally pointed this out. (I think there are 2 women of 20-some contributors in the recent issue)
Its desire to be hipper-than-thou is
>embarrassing and alienating,
I suspect the hipness in the beginning was largely a marketing strategy, to attract the young indie/punk rock crowd towards larger political horizons. At one point T. Frank seemed quite earnest about the revolutionary potential of indie rock. But even now "indie irony" is starting to come under the corrosive, abrasive gaze of T. Frank & Co. I like the Baffler, but as my friend and I jokingly remark on reading writers with similar critical approaches: yeah, but it's not as abrasive as the Baffler. Yeah, but what is? :-)
-Alec
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