Female, Divest, Sanction ft. Magdalene Taylor
Added 2022-07-29 10:46:08 +0000 UTCWe're joined this week by returning champion Magda Taylor, a writer whose work you'll probably be familiar with through MEL magazine.
Magda talks to us about the "Female Dating Strategy" subreddit, which, while having been called 'RedPill for Women' by some outlets, represents an understandable cynicism of dating apps and algorithmic romance, and in turn, has spurned dozens of TikTok trends and phenomena, repackaging its 'central pillars' into shareable content that, uh, tends to really only apply to good looking people. Magda talks to us about one of these sub-phenomena, 'Sirenmaxxing', whether its actually a thing, and what it suggests about the way we think about online dating today.
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Ladies be out here employing the DENNIS system
Jordan Clementi
2022-07-30 04:04:55 +0000 UTCRegarding boundary-pushing: remember the weirdly exploitative babe.net article about Aziz Ansari? Remember the weird (and probably racist) moral panic about his behavior despite the fact that its awfulness was almost entirely banal? Remember how after babe.net imploded it turned out that the publication was a toxic HR hell-hole? https://www.thecut.com/2019/06/babe-net-aziz-ansari-date-rise-and-fall.html
Elsie Hupp
2022-07-29 15:42:25 +0000 UTCAs a trans woman who has used dating apps both before and after transitioning, I can tell you that gay men treat each other almost exactly like straight men treat women. The difference, of course, is that because gay men also *get* treated like straight men treat women, they’re much, much better at gaslighting each other about it.
Elsie Hupp
2022-07-29 15:36:57 +0000 UTC“Why don’t you just find a nerd girl?” I mean, one of my partners is an HVAC engineer, and one of the things he tells me is super hot about me is when I talk about engineering to him lol. (Granted there are *tons* of double-entendres in HVAC.)
Elsie Hupp
2022-07-29 15:30:12 +0000 UTCThe main disadvantage of everyone having their air conditioners on at the same time here in New York is that the voltage drop makes it so that everything takes twice as long to cook in the microwave.
Elsie Hupp
2022-07-29 15:00:29 +0000 UTC
