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A diet for the heart

A diet for the heart

The 'decentering men' phenomenon has something in common with the Cool Girl.

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Last week, the New York Times ran a Modern Love column with the headline, “I Decentered Men. Decentering Desire for Men Is Harder.” The essay, written by Jasmine Browley, tells her story of “falling down the TikTok rabbit hole” of popular videos calling for women to “decenter men” in their lives.

Those videos made Browley feel less a…

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