Texas Monthly: "Texas A&M's Melting Point" -- about cultural conflicts at Texas A&M

[ucbalumnus]

@Christopher Hooks in Texas Monthly

A right-wing media outfit that has been waging a campaign against the school, Texas Scorecard, sent a brave witness to Draggieland who reported back details as if he were surveying a NAMBLA convention. The Rudder Association, an activist group that has fought to de-woke-ify A&M, charged that the event was getting too much funding from the university. State Representative Brian Harrison, class of ’04 and the face of the school’s implacable opposition, whose central case has been that his beloved alma mater has gotten much too homo, called for anyone who authorized the show to be fired.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/meltdown-at-texas-a-m-university/

[skieurope]

This article lost any argument when it called the school “too homo.” What is this? 3rd grade?

[ucbalumnus]

The page author was describing a Texas state representative as seeing the school as such.

[txfriendly]

You can be forgiven for not being familiar with Texas Monthly, which is an institution around here but not necessarily well-known elsewhere. It’s not the NYT or even the Atlantic - more like a Texas-y version of Slate or the old Deadspin (RIP), except printed on paper. Sometimes tongue-in-cheek, often with a little snark thrown in, but nonetheless talking about serious things (usually from a slightly left-of-center perspective). Here, the writer is snarkily ascribing this childish thought to the state official, not making a straightforward descriptive statement. Same with “Draggieland” - the common term is Aggieland, here modified to lampoon the “right-wing media outfit” and its moral panic over drag shows.

[L_NewEngland]

Sometimes “all publicity is good publicity” really does NOT hold true