Polish magazine ‘Polityka’ presents a progressive facade while maintaining traditional values, creating an editorial contradiction.
Progressive Exterior
“Tygodnik Polityka” is, as they once said about Polish society, a radish. Red on the outside, white on the inside.
Feminist Columns
The editorial office carefully offered columns to engaged feminists. Attention is drawn to progressive films or books.
Criticism of Polish Society
Hands are wrung over the state of the Polish clergy and Poles (of course not those who buy “Polityka”, but those homophobics who get dizzy for 800+, and they could be cleaning in the homes of good families who went to the Balearics).
Identity and Normalcy
When a girl whose “partner” sleeps with “other people” speaks on the pages, one feels that such affirmation of fluid postmodern identity seems strange to the editorial office. Because in fact, the reader of “Polityka” wants things to be “normal”, and normal is from Hartman to Urban and no further.
Political Stance
And without PiS!