I almost laughed out loud when I saw this absurd article in the fashion blog Afru.

Afru, which I have featured in an article once or twice before, is just the sort of highly politicized absurdist site where Leftists spew their idiocy with abandon. It describes itself:

About AFRU

We believe in the power of fashion to spark meaningful conversations on justice — as well as the other way around.

Shalawam.

AFRU is a Black-led and majority Black-owned startup that combines fashion and streetwear with lifestyle commentary to create a strong social justice brand that is relevant and attractive to folks from all walks of life.

We believe in the power of fashion to spark meaningful conversations — as well as the other way around. We also realize that people don’t want to be preached to all the time. That’s why our imprint magazine stitches together light everyday topics with navigation of more difficult intersectional spaces — all while allowing for the kind of messiness that is part of human nature. Our visual and intellectual branding therefore nurture each other in an perpetual spiral of trendsetting justice.

I hope you can understand that gobbledygook because some of it is beyond me. If I read it correctly they could have shortened it to “Here is some tedious virtue signaling along with a dash of racialism.”

In any case, what struck me was an article that indeed brings fashion and politics together, and which can be summarized easily enough: if you want to annoy Republicans, find a way to become a bit more repulsive.

Microbangs are a fashion trend in which women cut their bangs nearly to the hairline, creating a very odd look reminiscent of shaving one’s eyebrows off. It is off-putting in the way that Mark Zuckerberg’s hairstyle is off-putting. Not precisely ugly, but definitely as the headline says “a bit wrong.”

I couldn’t find a photographic example that was assuredly not copyrighted, so I took a screenshot of a how-to video from YouTube and cut it to look unrecognizable.

Apparently, we Republicans are supposed to be triggered by women with odd haircuts, so Afru suggests to its readers that they try looking bizarre just to “own” Republicans.

Because micro bangs are like the “ugly” shoe of the hair world. They’re a bit wrong, but that is part of their appeal. They’re like pairing your white fashion sneakers with a fancy dress. It’s not perfect and you know it is a bit off, but that transgression is part of what makes it so interesting — and frightening to Republicans.

I have to admit, I find Mark Zuckerberg’s Android-like looks far more frightening than this, which to me just looks like a slightly immature person trying to get a rise out of the normies. It’s not like we haven’t seen that a thousand times a day already.

What caught my attention was not the hairstyle, of course, but the admission from the style mavens at Afru: Republicans live rent-free in their heads. As far as I know, no Republican or conservative chooses the attire they wear every day on the basis of what they imagine a liberal will think. Because to do so is silly. I have worn basically the same hairstyle, with only length changes, since I was a teenager.

Sure, some people wear Trump hats or T-shirts to trigger the libs in limited circumstances, but most people choose their clothes and hairstyles for the more prosaic reasons of comfort and looking halfway decent.

Intentionally choosing to look worse–and that is what is being recommended here, after all–in order to trigger people with different political opinions seems very on-brand for the cultural elite. They often do things specifically to shock or offend, rather than because they actually like them. See any awards show.

It’s stupid and immature.

As I said, very on-brand.