What Cool Shiny is Reading Right Now 📰
sexual politics + masculinity + women's basketball
A few of the coolest & shiniest pieces of culture writing from across the internet:
🔥 Everyone is horny now (DAZED)
by Emma Garland
After a decade of prudishness and moral sanctimony, the sexual expression that #MeToo put a lid on has breached containment, and it’s coming out in interesting and extreme ways. From the box office to the music industry to social media, there has been a pendulum swing not just towards sex, but towards deviance.
🍆 what your porn searches say about society (The Etymology Nerd — Substack)
by Adam Aleksic
Pornhub’s 2024 Year in Review just dropped, and it’s all slang. According to the adult video website, searches for “demure” rose 133%; searches for “tradwife” are up 72%, and searches for “hawk tuah” went from zero to over ten million.
🏀 Unrivaled Charts a New Path for Women’s Basketball (The New York Times)
by Remy Tumin
In addition to packaging the game in a digestible format, the league is also firmly centered around its athletes, providing equity stakes, child care, on-site therapeutic services and, for many players, a higher salary for the eight-week competition than they will make in the five-month Women’s National Basketball Association season.
🐘 When Your Son Goes MAGA (The New York Times)
by Callie Holtermann
Some liberal parents face a new, unexpected challenge: how to talk to their children who voted for Donald J. Trump.
🎙️ The Second Trump Presidency, Brought to You by YouTubers (Bloomberg)
by Davey Alba, Leon Yin, Julia Love, Ashley Carman, Priyanjana Bengani, Rachael Dottle, Elena Mejía
Podcasters including Joe Rogan, Theo Von and Logan Paul are mobilizing America’s men to lean right. An analysis of over 2,000 videos shows how.
🐴 Does anthropomorphism help humanise white men? (DAZED)
by Halima Jibril
In Better Man and BoJack Horseman, anthropomorphism becomes a tool to dissect masculinity, addiction and fame. But why do we need animals to reveal the truths about human struggles we often refuse to face?
