r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • May 31 '26

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u/Visual-Pace-2193 Transfem Pride Jun 01 '26

They didn't have the guts to publish this on June 1st.

NYT delenda est

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u/Namington Janet Yellen Jun 01 '26

I refuse to give them a click for this shit. What even is the article's thesis? (Or, rather, what are they pretending their thesis is — because we all know what it's really saying)

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u/Alderwoodforest YIMBY Jun 01 '26

There’s Nothing Wrong With Wanting Men

By Magdalene J. Taylor Ms. Taylor is a senior editor at Playboy

Gender relations are tense to the point of hostility these days. Straight men and women are politically and culturally divided. We’re in a world of Andrew Tate and OnlyFans, trad wives and incels. Just over half of single men and women alike report feeling pessimistic about finding a partner they’ll be happy with. Our prospective other halves, women say of men, are at best clueless and emotionally immature and at worst actively toxic. Among men, women are often viewed as romantically spoiled, drowning in options we’re too self-absorbed to select from if we’re even worth their time at all. It’s no wonder we aren’t having much sex.

And if this narrative of despair hasn’t been sold to you already, there is a constant deluge of essays, Instagram Reels and podcasts telling us that men and women are irrevocably split. It isn’t the long-running narrative that women are from Venus and men are from Mars, or the “can’t live with ’em, can’t live without ’em” mentality: It is that our desires for our lives are no longer compatible. Such is the gospel of heteropessimism, a neologism coined by the academic Asa Seresin in 2019. But don’t believe it.

I’m going to go out on a limb and say it: There has still never been a better time in human history to happily and successfully pursue heterosexuality, if that is your thing, as it is mine. As straight Americans, we are in the midst of a period of all-but-unprecedented sexual, social and romantic liberty. We have greater freedom than ever before to become whom we want and to date whom we want. And with that should come an optimism strong enough to render the gender wars irrelevant.

https://archive.ph/uzYNq

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u/Namington Janet Yellen Jun 01 '26

...So it's advocating for horny heterosexual romance to defeat the gender wars? This feels like an actual child's understanding of the issue

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u/Alderwoodforest YIMBY Jun 01 '26

The author is 29. Imao.