Gia Tolentino
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 22 Jul
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For the first time last decade, there was kind of visible female contempt in the air as well, you know, that you could maybe see through those mugs that said male tears, etc.
And this tipped this particular community of men, the kind of men's rights, manosphere people, into this reactionary...
you know, political ideology that held like women are subhuman, they're stupid, they're superficial, you know, they're lesser than us.
And looks maxing came out of this paradigm of men, of the world of dating apps and men for the first time being judged the way that women have historically been judged by men.
You know, men's bodies and faces for the first time were
Really, I think through dating app culture, it could be dissected the way that women's looks have always been dissected.
Right.
So that's the thing, right?
Because looks maxing is an ideology that came out of kind of explicitly anti-woman thing.
These are ostensibly straight men that are trying to become more beautiful.
Whereas I write, you know, in my kind of degraded millennial youth, if you wanted to get hotter really fast, you usually were trying to...
Usually you are trying to have some sort of fun, exciting new sex, you know, out of it.
And that is so conspicuously absent.
It is, like you said, it is beauty.
It is trying to summon kind of hotness, but with almost this unbelievably cold, hateful attitude towards not just the bodies of others, but even your own, right?
Eros is totally absent.
There is no desire to get closer to the body of another person whatsoever.
When the looks maxers talk about women, who they call foids, short for female humanoids, they want to get hotter so that they can attract women, but as a display of dominance and conquest exclusively.
Any sense that it is pleasurable in and of itself to be with another person, to be intimate with another person,
You know, to show yourself to another person and to be seen and to see them, that's so conspicuously absent from the way that they talk about their bodies and the bodies of others.
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