Kim Kardashian's secret to fame: be boring
The backlash against her Vogue cover is very telling


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Elissa Strauss writes about the intersection of gender and culture for TheWeek.com. She also writes regularly for Elle.com and the Jewish Daily Forward, where she is a weekly columnist.
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