A very bad take on bisexuality
Plus, power throuples, 'humbling' post-baby pics, Sabrina Carpenter's 'horny' outros, and more in the weekend roundup.
Happy weekend. I’ve got some good (and enraging) stuff for you—from the “crime” of monogamy to a very bad take on Gen Z and bisexuality.
To the links…
Padma Lakshmi tells Harper’s Bazaar: “I’m my own Daddy now.” Can I get that on a baseball hat?
Moira Donegan reviews a terrible-sounding book on the history of housewives: “For years, this was the bargain that feminism struck with heterosexuality: give us our rights in the public sphere and we will not infringe upon men’s entitlements in the private ones.”
“Fuck the present, marry the future, and kill the past,” says Sam Adler-Bell. (Also, holy cow, this quote from psychoanalyst Adam Phillips: “A couple is a conspiracy in search of a crime. Sex is often the closest they can get.” Adler-Bell counters: “the crime is monogamy itself.”)
Sophie Sun Mancini on wearing an ex’s clothing:
I’ve been wearing X’s coat almost every day since, pathologically reaching for it when I go to work events, media dinners, and industry parties. I haven’t seen him since he moved out eight months ago, but I still live in the home we built together—between the walls and the cabinets he painted, the furniture he assembled, the photos he took, the dimmer switches he installed, amidst his shoes, his books, and his mail. I live with a ghost.
There’s been chatter this week about the trend of celebrities sharing “humbling” post-baby photos, thanks to an Instagram post from model Suki Waterhouse, in which she poses in Frida Mom postpartum underwear with a caption about the rollercoaster of the fourth trimester. A number of these celebrities wear the same brand of underwear in their postpartum selfies, which makes this feel less like an “empowering” trend and more like… a marketing campaign.
Relatedly, here’s me from several years back on the “sneakily retro politics of 'brutally honest' post-baby photos.”
I hesitate to even link—and definitely do not sign up for their mailing list in order to read this piece—but Air Mail ran a ludicrous and poorly-sourced opinion piece from a self-defined “dissident feminist” alleging that Gen Z women are identifying as bisexual because they see it as “an effective shorthand for signaling that they believe the right things and support the right causes.”