Gia (Jia) Tolentino

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Fresh Air · Best Of: Jia Tolentino on plastic surgery & AI / ‘Beef’ creator Lee Sun Jin · 8 Aug 2026 podcast

Um, they're kind of surgically building maximal maleness.

Totally, which is drag.

I mean it's it's it literally it's it's drag.

Which is why it's always been so funny to me to see Republicans be so against

drag and children's exposure to drag and against again like trans affirming uh gender affirming medical care because essentially all plastic surgery, you know, the the hair transplants that men are getting in Turkey.

you know, the breast implants and nose jobs of a more innocent time of the eighties and nineties when those were the only things that you know that people maybe got.

Um it's gender affirming surgery.

So there is a version of this playing

Out.

with the trad wife trend, these influencers who have lots of followers, sometimes millions of followers, they're they're kind of performing

of femininity in another way too, standing in their kitchens and in these prairie dresses, they're being domestic, they're performing submission.

It's femininity content in a way.

And how does this kind of fit into what you're describing, this world of face altering?

Well, the trad wife thing, you know, th there's some very kind of obvious built in contradictions and paradoxes in it, right?

Where the women that are most famous as trad wives, they are not trad wives, they are million dollar business people, right?

They they are entrepreneurs, they make more money than their husbands, you know, they're

you know, they're heads of enormous businesses.

And you know, there's a similar kind of contradiction with the kind of Mar-a-Lago-faced territory where

Let's say, you know, the Trump administration, uh its point of view on public health is, you know

It's funny to

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