Chapter 1: What does Heated Rivalry reveal about societal expectations of masculinity?
So what the new show Heated Rivalry has taught me about 2026 is that the only acceptable man is a gay man and that we need to discuss women's crippling porn addictions. The gays and the chicks, the ladies and their twinks. That's really what this, that's really what this episode is about. All right, so if you do not know, a show called Heated Rivalry is the series of the moment.
It is about closeted gay hockey players in the NHL. It was produced in Canada for a Canadian streaming service, but then it was picked up for distribution by HBO Max, HBO whatever they are now, Max. You know what I'm talking about, HBO. And it blew up, especially in America and especially with American women. Do I find Heated Rivalry hot? Or am I just uncomfortable? I don't, I can't tell.
I've just... So it's a new experience for me and we're just taking it all in. Anyway, this show is based on a series of books by an author named Rachel Reed, who has oddly like found her niche in writing gay hockey novels. Like that is what she writes about. We will get to more of that a little later because I actually think it is really interesting.
And the other thing you guys need to know is that this is not just some surface level, happy honky dory little romance gay TV show. No, it is incredibly sexual. Like when I mean sexual, I mean full on sex happening every single episode, incredibly graphic and a lot of it. This is what American women are watching.
The New York Times even wrote about this a couple of days ago, and they wrote, Little by little, the show has entered the mainstream hockey culture. It raises questions and criticisms about the sport's failures when it comes to the inclusion of the LGBTQ plus community, but could the rising popularity of heated rivalry lead to a change in male hockey culture?
it has at least opened the door for conversations to be had. Now, here's the thing. I'm not a huge hockey fan, but I watch enough hockey to know, like, I do not think this show should change hockey culture. Like, hockey, in my opinion, is the last stand.
Like, hockey, even though the NHL, the commissioner is woke and he's, like, trying to insert political things, like, the fans and the athletes... are completely rejecting that. This is the last sport where men are literally fighting out all of their issues. They're literally fighting on the ice. They're rejecting all of the political nonsense.
This is the only sport where the players are not kneeling in end zones wearing stop hate helmets. Meanwhile, they're at home beating up their baby mamas. This is the last stand. And honestly, in my opinion, there is a far more interesting conversation to be had about the liberal women viewers of the show who are very openly and proudly getting off
to gay porn and the hypocrisy with how they are now treating and objectifying male athletes. Like I said, the women are obsessed with heated rivalry. One headline reads, my girlfriend is still obsessed with a TV show about gay hockey players. The change in her is scaring me. Another one reads, straight women love gay romance, heated rivalry, fetishes, and the loss of romantic stakes.
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Chapter 2: Why are women increasingly drawn to gay romance narratives?
I love him. He was like, Brett, you must watch the show. I turned it on and I was like, my eyes, Amir, my eyes. I can't deal with this. And then the more significant subset, the larger portion of the audience is American women. And before you ask, yes, it is not just articles being written about it. It is all over TikTok and the women are unwell. You guys told me it was a fucking gay show.
I wanted to see all guys kissing, what the fuck? What do you mean? So women are not just turned on by the show, but they are also ugly crying because it means so much to them. Somebody commented and said, I genuinely can't even remember who I was before this show. Another woman said, no, it actually changed the trajectory of my life. Like ladies, are we okay?
Like, I know I ask that question a lot, but are like, the women of America, are you okay? I know the question is no, but I feel like I just rhetorically needed to ask you. Anyway, and I mean, listen, it is common knowledge that women love their gay best friends. Like, hi, Amir, I know you're watching, but this right here, what we are seeing on social media, it is another level.
And I think it's political. Just stick with me here, because as I was researching, I came across something that was super interesting that I did not know, but a large majority of gay male-on-male romance novels are written by straight women, as was the original Heated Rivalry book series. One article points this out, writing, The vast majority of gay romances are written by women. White women.
Straight white women. Straight white women who in their, about the author sections, talked about their husbands, children, cats, chickens, and love of artisanal cured meats. The first time I noticed this, I flipped the book over in my hands, back and forth, looking at the ultra-gay cover art, and then the author's photo on the back. I couldn't reconcile the two.
I may not be a gay man, this author writes, but I know appropriation when I see it. Problematic alert, problematic. It's 2026, we have more appropriation. Let's just add it to the list. Now it is straight, white, married women appropriating gay culture for their own gain, for their own sexual interests. I have no idea we are going to get into that. But like,
But seriously, isn't that just a little bit odd? Like Rachel Reed, who wrote Heated Rivalry, in addition to a slew of other gay hockey books, is married to a man and has two children with that man. But the thing is, on her website, like as I'm going through her FAQ and her About page, she says nothing about her husband. Not a single man in sight.
She talks about her kids and the degrees that she has, but she doesn't say anything about her husband, I would have assumed that a man did not exist in her orbit if I did not Google her just a little bit further.
But here's the thing, it gets even more interesting because speaking of problematic in 2026, I did stumble across a Reddit thread of people bringing up this point and going like, isn't this like strange? Does this feel inauthentic? Maybe even a bit fetishy because she's like a straight white mom writing this.
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Chapter 3: How does Heated Rivalry challenge traditional hockey culture?
I think that's ridiculous. That's what the left does. But it does feel like she's trying to make herself seem a little bit more authentic by hiding that part of her life. Sue me, sorry, that is just how I feel. It made me chuckle when I saw all of this take place.
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Chapter 4: What is the significance of women's reactions to male characters in heated rivalry?
Because mine certainly does, because this is a lot to take in. I know that I'm probably giving you whiplash. While I was researching this show and trying to figure out what I should talk about with it, because I felt like there was some angle here, and I was like, there's something that's just bugging me and is confusing me about why women are so into it.
And then it just hit, because as I was researching it, I found the exact same discourse happening online. One woman, this is actually a girl who used to be at Buzzfeed years ago, she tweeted and she said, what I've learned from heated rivalry discourse is that women are effing sad.
Like in a bone deep trench foot of the heart kind of way, there is a hopelessness that has just been buried in the backyard of our minds for years. And it feels like the dog just dug it up, so to speak. So women are sad, hopeless. They can't be in love with men. Men are so awful. And this gay show has just revived them.
It's like brought up all of these feelings of inadequacy and anger, but they're also being reborn. Anyway, it's just like a whole thing. Somebody else commented and said, don't stop. read the books, watch the episodes over and over. This is your mind and body trying to heal itself from our current reality. And then somebody replied and said, wait, you're right.
Girl, ladies, that is the most like annoying chick comment ever. Wait, you're right. No, no, she's not. Like this is complete irrelevant BS. You are making a cupcake out of a crumb. Another commenter under one of these TikToks saying how prolific the show was said, I yearn for a relationship free from misogyny. Another person said, someone on here broke it down nicely.
Basically, for once, women don't have to carry the mental, emotional, and physical load of a relationship and can just leisurely observe drama. Ladies, what are we talking about here? This is literally a TV show. It is not real life. Like, are you sitting around watching other shows carrying the mental load of the female characters? Like, are we being for real?
That does not sound like a Hollywood or a man problem, that seems like a you problem getting a little too invested in the content that you're watching. Like, sorry, not sorry, but that's just kind of how I feel.
Another girl posted this TikTok and the text on it says, I just saw that video that said the reason we feel gender envy while watching heated rivalry is because we're witnessing an experience only men have, the freedom to desire and relate to a lover without being positioned as lesser? Like, what are we talking about here?
Number one, like, who are you dating that you feel like all men are making you feel lesser? I feel like that's just you, you know, internalizing propaganda from culture.
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Chapter 5: How do straight women reconcile their attraction to gay romance?
But also, if we are being real, there are gay characters in Heated Rivalry who are positioned as lesser, who are brushed over and get walked over in their relationships. Like, I'm sorry, that is not exclusively a man thing. That is not just some arm of the patriarchy that only happens to women. Like, that is life.
Sometimes that happens in relationships to women, yes, but also to men, which they showed on the show. So pardon me if I do not think that this is a real issue that women are dealing with. Like, I think that that is something that you honestly have just made up in your head that you always feel lesser when you are dating a man.
Now, the part that I find even funnier about all of this discourse with heated rivalry is that liberal women have built their entire modern identity and their political identity around hating men. And yet... At the end of the day, biology still wins. They are still attracted to these men. Because one of the main characters in Hated Rivalry is this hyper caricature of masculinity, I would say.
He's dominating, he's emotionally unavailable, he's definitely a little bit toxic. He is everything that they claim to hate about men, about masculinity, about the patriarchy, and yet women are literally crying and drooling over him on social media. They are still attracted to it. at the end of the day.
Under one of those many articles musing about why women are so into this show, somebody commented, this was on X, and said, because men are terrible and the world is cruel to women. And yet you're sitting here still watching a show entirely about men. Like genuinely, am I the only one seeing the irony here?
You're saying all of this and yet you're posting on TikTok relentlessly about how you are turned on by these men. And so from there, as I started reading all of those comments and watching the TikToks, I started to wonder like maybe that is the crux of the issue. Maybe that is actually what turns them on. The safety of the characters being gay and all of this feeling politically correct to them.
Like maybe this is just the newest social justice warrior trope. And this gay romance maybe is their loophole? Like I think this is what some would call having your cake and eating it too. Except the cake is two jacked and attractive masculine gay hockey players and you're eating it through a laptop screen while posting about hating the patriarchy and getting turned on by gay men.
I feel like I'm going crazy. Am I not the only one who sees how ironic this is? Anyway, so I feel like we're just in this weird cultural paradox where it is not cool to be straight. It's not cool to have a boyfriend. It's embarrassing, people are saying, but these women still have desires.
They are still attracted to men, which, by the way, leads me to my next point of hypocrisy that I wanna call out both on the right and the left, because I think this is something that we do need to talk about more. We, myself included, and I wanna include myself here, and I'm sorry if I focus too much on this, but we have ragged on men for years about their porn consumption.
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Chapter 6: What are the implications of female viewership on male athletes?
It's on HBO. That's not porn. I'm not watching this on Pornhub. Well, my friends, I am here to tell you once and for all, what you are watching these shows, it is porn. And I'll be honest, I'll raise my hand here. Like I read that series, Fourth Wing, as one of those like romantic series. And while I do love fantasy, I've always loved fantasy novels. I, you know, I like dragons.
I thought the story was cool. Like I was aghast. at some of the scenes that I read. And apparently compared to other novels out there and other like smutty, romantic, whatever it is, apparently that series is mild. Like some would not even consider that sexual at all. And I was sitting here like gripping my pearls being like, oh my God, I need to like put this away.
But that is just the state of the world and what women are reading. And now like back to Hollywood, Like, Heated Rivalries, it is porn. Bridgerton, sorry if you like it, that is porn. Fifty Shades of Grey is porn.
These extremely graphic sex scenes, which take up a significant amount of time in the episodes of Heated Rivalry, I might add, are no different than what the men of the world might be watching. And I've seen people out there comment things like, well, it's different because it doesn't impact women the way that it impacts men. Oh, bullshit. Like, please. Like, let's be real here.
The women have also lost their damn minds. We complain all day long about men objectifying and sexualizing women thanks to porn brain. Women are doing the same thing in their own way. I mean, just look at how these women are now acting at hockey games thanks to heated rivalry.
Here's another, like I'm just sitting here and I'm watching these TikToks and I'm like imagining the outrage if a man did the same thing. If a man posted a TikTok and was filming two female tennis players and was like, when are you gonna kiss? Are they in like a gay relationship? Like when are you gonna get it on? Like the airwaves would be full of feminist screeching.
He'd be going like, get out of our sports. Misogyny is impacting women's sports, whatever it is. Meanwhile, of course, those same women don't actually care if biological men are impeding upon women's sports. They don't care about that, but they would care about this. Now, what is even crazier and more out of pocket is the women going so far as sexualizing the hockey players' warmups. Watch this.
And guys, these videos are literally everywhere. They are all over the place. Hockey players fighting, getting up in each other's faces, warming up, doing that stuff on the ground, all with like sexy getting it on music in the background.
Like, I'm sorry, but again, if a man was filming any female athlete warming up, doing something with a teammate and twisting it to be sexual for their own fantasy and fetish, they would probably be banned from attending those games. They would be tarred and feathered and canceled by the internet. But this keeps going and they are egged on by the internet.
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