Gia Tolentino
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336 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 22 Jul
Gia Tolentino’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's kind of like Instagram face.
It's as if kind of the Kardashian-esque beauty standard of 2016 has ported itself 10 years later to the seat of American power and added quite a lot of makeup to it.
It's this...
It's what plastic surgery used to be, where it flaunts itself, where it kind of flaunts its lack of relationship to human reality, which I find kind of funny and I find almost quaint.
And it also, you know, there's a way in which it mirrors the actual political policy as of the Trump administration, where power is displayed in, you know, proudly disconnecting from reality altogether.
It's saying that what is given, what is human, doesn't matter.
I'm going to slash it to bits and, you know, put some gold and lipstick on it and we're going to... You know, it's the equivalent of the Trump ballroom, basically, in human face form.
And, you know, there's also something... It's quite... It's so aggressively female.
You know, it's... There's something... This is certainly not a new observation, but it's very interesting to watch...
You know, people that are very much against trans health care, gender-affirming medical care display a beauty look that is nothing if not gender-affirming.
It's fundamentally gender-affirming surgery like much plastic surgery is.
Literally, it's drag, which is why it's always been so funny to me to see Republicans be so against women.
drag and children's exposure to drag and against, again, like trans affirming, gender affirming medical care, because essentially all plastic surgery, you know, the hair transplants that men are getting in Turkey, you know, the breast implants and nose jobs of, you know, a more innocent time of the 80s and 90s when those were the only things that, you know, that people maybe got.
That's gender affirming surgery.
Well, I think that there is – the trad wife thing, you know, there are 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 are entrepreneurs.
They make more money than their husbands.
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 face territory where –
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