H*rny for life's pleasures
Plus: 'terminal heterosexuality,' the TikTok boyfriend test, 'liberal pro-breeders,' and more in the weekend roundup.
Happy Sunday? Good luck to us all in getting through these next few days.
In this week’s roundup, we’ve got election hopes and resolutions, the decline of flirting, an alt-right women’s mag, “having it all” as a heroine’s curse, and more.
To the links…
Nikole Hannah-Jones writes: “If [Kamala Harris] becomes the first woman to breach the 235-year unbroken line of men ascending to the highest office in the land, it may very well be because white women do something they have long struggled to do: align their interests with those of Black women.”
The new Florence Pugh–Andrew Garfield romance We Live in Time is “a signpost of terminal heterosexuality,” says Rich Juzwiak. It’s also—SPOILER ALERT—a film where death comes for a woman who tries to “have it all.”
Who’s doing a gender studies thesis on Brian Jordan Alvarez’s now-daily “I love your daughter” dances? Feel like he unlocked a new level of (hot) hetero satire this week with the stoner/frat boy/boy band member mashup.
Another reminder that any mention of The Beauty Myth has to come with one million caveats.