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Sex is core to this is it not though. are these podcasters about how can we reconcile sexual dynamics in the woke sphere, how do we reconcile the fact that we still need to be cool, and how can cultural capital still operate within anti-capital poltiics, we still fancy people more than others, others are more charismatic and attractive, we cant get away from status, hierarchy, how de square this with egalitarianism
Is part of the alt-woke scumbag left drive the acknowledgment of this? that they want to still signal these principles but it conflicts with the reality of their nervous system and crotches twitching at the glamour etc, the benefits of status and exclusivity
yeah definitely, one of the central tensions on the left rn seems to be this question of hierarchy, the nature (and unfairness) of unequal desire, and the podcast/culture writer types are a lightning rod for that conversation in part b/c they embody those same tensions.
As well as a lot of questions—which are in large part settled by having role models a little older than you—around sex, these areas where there are no clear reals, and everything's really liminal right now, people aren't sure what they want sexually, they're in a soup of clashing subcultural norms, media models, Lena Dunham, gossip with friends. OnlyFans/camgirl'ing and the emerging normalization of borderline-sex work.
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