I haven’t seen Love is Blind for years, but the Great Pilates Controversy has been everywhere. Most recently, I opened a new tab in Firefox and one of the suggested links was this one: Why the manosphere reveres the ‘Pilates girl’. It’s published in The 19th, so we can treat it like the representative mainstream…
I was happy to see The Atlantic declare The Death of Millennial Feminism, because it’s long overdue. The occasion that marked the turning of the zeitgeist was Lindy West’s new book. Until Andi Zeisler’s piece at Salon, I hadn’t seen a single person try to defend it. The Atlantic article is really good: The reaction…
It wasn’t always true that “the left” had a problem with masculinity. I mean…”I am a man” was a civil rights slogan. Leftism had to do with unions and factories and things. You could join the Red Army. The Black Panthers were considered cool. Leftism could be militant. In olden times, “leftism” had connotations of…
I’m an elder millennial, class of 2001, the last to graduate before 9/11. Things used to be very different. It was a whole different zeitgeist. If you were in grade school when it happened, as an adult you wouldn’t understand what you missed unless you made a special effort to understand the Before Times. It’s…