Noel King

If the point of looks maxing is to be as hot as possible...

I get it.

It's understandable.

You're young.

What is the objective of being hot?

What is the purpose of all this?

All right.

So I've read your pieces and I listened to your podcast.

And there's a thing that I think you both say directly and kind of dance around, which is clavicular and the gang seem stupid.

This seems stupid, but it isn't actually stupid.

Explain what you mean.

The Atlantic's Charlie Warzel ahead.

Charlie comes back to tell us how the looks maxers are taking over the real world.

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