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Cripes. After the fourth "small penis" joke and the phrase "head-towel in hand" I had to stop reading. And I will make a point not to read Vanity Fair in the fu
by luvcraft 16y ago
Cripes. After the fourth "small penis" joke and the phrase "head-towel in hand" I had to stop reading. And I will make a point not to read Vanity Fair in the future.
I am interested in the future of Dubai, but this is not how I want to read about it.
- smcl 16y agoAgreed, to repeatedly trivialise the Dubai situation as "penis envy" is lazy. To then continue to spit out angry generalisations that would not look out of place on Fox News (without citing anything) is tedious at best. There's an excellent story waiting to be told about what happened in Dubai and what may happen in the future, but this isn't it.
- DenisM 16y agoThanks for saving me time I could hav otherwise wasted.
- hasenj 16y agoThe "tower is a penis" analogy is indeed disturbing. And the author seems rather bitter. But all in all, it's not a bad read.
- ern 16y agoI kept waiting to get something deeper out of the article, but I didn't. A rehashing of descriptions we have seen a lot of in the last year or so: lazy, bored Emiratis; rootless expats; South Asian serfs; vulgarity. No real insights.
- gurtwo 16y agoI've worked in Dubai. I found the article pretty accurate. So much, that I was surprised to read on it the same analogies I've been doing myself to describe the country to my friends (an adult Disneyland, a soul-less country, a spoiled generation of young locals).
- daniel-cussen 16y agoCut them some slack, print publishing is going through a bigger crisis of its own.
- kragen 16y agoYeah, I wasn't expecting to find racist slurs in Vanity Fair. (Non-native English speakers: see http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=towelhead http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=towelhead for clarification.)