A Christian homeschooling mother of 10 who goes by “The Activist Mommy” is waging war on Teen Vogue for having the gull to teach safe sex to their readers.
Elizabeth Johnston is incensed over the magazine’s decision to publish an article on anal sex, as well as for showing support for LGBTQ youth as well as gender fluidity. She is also apparently not a fan of Grace and Lena Dunham.
Johnston created a video ranting about the contents of a magazine no one forced her to buy, before calling on her fans to “go to your local gas stations, your local libraries, and your local grocery stores” and “demand that they remove Teen Vogue from the shelves immediately.”
“These editors brains are in the gutter, now let’s put their sales in the gutter where they belong,” she said, before ripping up the magazine and throwing it in a fire, because DRAMA! She added that “the authors minds are in the garbage.”
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You can watch the video below, and you can also run out and pick up a copy of Teen Vogue, on newsstands now. Whether you’re buying it for its educational content, or to ceremoniously destroy it, the gutter-and-garbage-minded staff will undoubtedly appreciate your money either way.
Johnston refers to her womb as her weapon, and believes in roping her children into her anti-abortion activism.
“I will never forget the time we were participating in an outreach outside of a North Carolina abortion facility,” she writes. “There were maybe 10 pro-abortion and homosexual adults out there waiting for us when we arrived. When we all began to unload out of our 12 and 15 passenger vans, we outnumbered them 10 to 1! Why? Because of our children! It was the perfect illustration of how cutting off your offspring is a losing proposition.”
She has previously called for a boycott of Vicks VapoRub over their commercial in support of transgender rights, referring to the woman in the ad as “a square-jawed, plain-as-day man.”
UPDATE: The article in question is not even in the issue Johnston is burning, as it turns out, making the whole fake outrage she shows that much more bogus. Phillip Picardi, Digital Editorial Director of Teen Vogue, set the record straight on Twitter.
It's not in the magazine. We publish wonderful exclusive content for digital.
— Phillip Picardi (@pfpicardi) July 14, 2017
Wait — it’s not even in the print copy? So she’s burning a magazine that doesn’t even contain the article she finds objectionable?
— Amy (@AmyCB42) July 14, 2017
— Phillip Picardi (@pfpicardi) July 14, 2017
Picardi then explained why the magazine would publish the content in a thread thoughtful thread.
We published a 411 on Anal Sex story on @TeenVogue as a continued part of our sex education coverage.
— Phillip Picardi (@pfpicardi) July 14, 2017
It's funny, because I went to Catholic high school and had 0 sex education. I also had a teacher tell me gay sex was a sin in God's eyes.
— Phillip Picardi (@pfpicardi) July 14, 2017
The kind folks at Callen-Lorde taught me about HIV/AIDS, what it is, and how it's contracted. They also told me to get tested regularly.
— Phillip Picardi (@pfpicardi) July 14, 2017
Then they taught me the importance of safer sex, and what I needed to know in particular as a gay man.
— Phillip Picardi (@pfpicardi) July 14, 2017
You see, my Catholic school was guilty of endangering all of us by sheer omission of FACTS. EDUCATION doesn't equal ENCOURAGEMENT.
— Phillip Picardi (@pfpicardi) July 14, 2017
TBH, it is IRRESPONSIBLE. How can you possibly expect teenagers to practice safe sex if they don't know what's at risk?
— Phillip Picardi (@pfpicardi) July 14, 2017
The backlash to this article is rooted in homophobia. It's also laced in arcane delusion about what it means to be a young person today.
— Phillip Picardi (@pfpicardi) July 14, 2017
Instead, I made mistakes that consisted of quite a few doctor's appointments! But I'm ok!!
— Phillip Picardi (@pfpicardi) July 14, 2017
to a growing population. Gen Z will be our queerest and most fearless generation yet.
— Phillip Picardi (@pfpicardi) July 14, 2017
In conclusion, here’s my only reply I’ll be giving to any of the messages. ? pic.twitter.com/KiFjVqLlH3
— Phillip Picardi (@pfpicardi) July 14, 2017
