BRYAN CENTER — Duke’s newest lifestyle magazine, the Duke Misogyny, Irrationality, and Xenophobia monthly (DMIX) hit the stands last Friday and students across campus have applauded the publication’s promotion of eating disorders and aversion to non-white people.
“I’ve been looking for an outlet to exacerbate my lack of confidence, social anxiety, and body-image issues, and when I picked up my copy of DMIX from under a trash pile outside of Gross Chem, I felt like I finally found something to fill the void,” sophomore Hillary Godde stated.
“If only DMIX had been around at the time of the Gender Forum,” Student Government of Duke President Matt Lincoln lamented. “We might have almost become irrelevant.”
The Weedicle received an advance copy of the publication, which named “starving” and “over-exercising” as key December trends in campus living habits. An article, entitled “Beauty and Brains” is reprinted exclusively here.
“Let’s be honest. I look like this because I run three miles a day and eat salad,” junior Belle Jones wrote in DMIX.
The magazine, which cites a variety of white and extra white people as “Duke’s Hot to Watch” has been touted for its edgy, provocative subject matter.
“I was interning at the prestigious Detroit Daily Courier, a lifestyle/society publication in Detroit,” founding co-editor Jaz Simpson explained to the Weedicle, “when I looked around the office at the beautiful issues on the table, at the articles I was writing, and thought, ‘I wish Duke students had a medium through which to champion their insecurities, too.’”
Simpson is not alone. Duke nutritionist Franklin Alphie wrote in an email that after the Karen Owen powerpoint and fraternity emails, “Female self-esteem on campus is at an all-time high. This is the perfect opportunity to build on that momentum and really give Duke students something they can live up to: calcium deficiency and size 00 waists.”
“It was almost a tangible, physical sensation,” Simpson wrote in his inaugural letter from the editor. “The tumblers opened, the lock clicked, the door burst, stars shimmered in the heretofore vacant night sky, and ideas surged out in waves that haven’t been since Noah set sail. DMIX is like, a trashy gossip column meets the KKK.”
And set sail he did. Left in bathrooms, art history books, study carrels, and the trashcan outside of Bostock, it is estimated that up to four or five students have read DMIX.
“We expect readership to go up by at least one or two people come the next publication cycle,” publisher Carla Muir said. “We will soon rival the Chronic.”
Future issues of DMIX hope to target the cutting edge topics of “Stuff White People Like” and “Why Women Shouldn’t Vote.”
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I don’t have words to describe how fantastic this article was. actually.
As someone who truly values the issues the article is trying to bring to light, methinks it’s a bit harsh. The magazine, while definitely generally white-dominated, is not misrepresenting the demographics on campus. Note, also, that it may not be advocating the opinions expressed by the individuals who were interviewed – in fact, like any good magazine, it didn’t censor their words and thus, smarter people can laugh at them.
bahahah 🙂 whoever wrote this deserves a prize for wit and sarcasm, well done!!
Duke diversity stats:
African-America, 10 %; Asian-American 22; Hispanic/Latino 6%; Caucasian 51%; Foreign 6%
Given race demographics alone listed on Duke’s website the magazine actually kinda sorta is sadly not representative of Duke’s student body, if it were half of the people photographed in the magazine would not be white which one can see it is not when flipping through the mag.
Moreover, the text does not reflect the diversity of social and cultural opinion of makes up Duke culture. It moreso strikes me as an amateur magazine aspiring to the likes of Seventeen, which I would be fine with if we were not all members of an elite institution and more than capable of thinking beyond the confines of mainstream American culture.
I hope that those involved in the magazine will push themselves to offer more to the student body in their future issues and get a more diverse palette of students involved in its production. Best of luck!
I second the post above. And arguably, the demographics that are smallest are also the ones that would benefit most from greater representation, no? So I don’t think demographics would be a strong excuse even if they were closer to Duke percentages.
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AMEN. DMIX needs to crumble.
They have their right to exercise their free speech. I think we should organize a collective burning of their publication as a way to exercise ours.
All kinds of butt-hurt in those ms-paint comments.
There’s a black girl on the first page. No, it’s not completely representative of Duke’s entire community, but its not like they’re crossing all minorities off their list.
And I’ll admit that “Bella Jones”s response is nearly incoherent, but they gave the kids three sentences to spell out their entire life, give them a break.
Note: I didn’t read the entire magazine, but this article just seems to be making a big stink about a publication the authors claim no one reads anyway. And even if this was a major issue, using childish insults isn’t the way to go about changing it.
Get Over It., they editors still have a choice in how they frame and contextualize those statements and they chose to attach them to very glamorized images, “beauty” and “brains” with neither irony nor commentary.
And the article already acknowledged the ANTM girl – as has been said, still nowhere close to actual Duke demographics.
Agreed with the above.
Also, Get Over It: “using childish insults isn’t the way to go about changing it” – this is the weedicle, get over it… OR you could start a fancy sounding initiative or write a letter to the editor of the chronic.
I am disappointed, to say the least. As an avid fan of CNQ, I expected this magazine to be classy where the CNQ is not. The fact of the matter is both magazines are equally un-classy. The difference? One magazine openly acknowledges its crazy, stupid sense of humor where the other pretends to be above the crassness that is CNQ. But the content of this second magazine DMIX is completely non-representative of Duke students, made me feel uncomfortable with who I am, and marginalized the majority of Duke.
Seriously? I expected better.
Although I love the wit and humor of this article, I also have a couple issues:
The student in the center of the first page does not merely “doodle,” as you state. When he said he draws, he was being modest. He is a world class artist, and you can see his “doodles” in art galleries.
I applaud other issues brought up in this weedicle article, as over-exercising, self-starvation, and worship of stereotypical, superficial beauty are all major problems that must be addressed . But before you make personal attacks (such as the doodle remark), please make sure they are accurate.