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Thanks to everyone who tuned into our Substack Live.

Today’s bonus episode was a cultural and political grab bag. Just a few topics we touched on:

* Tracy blaming dire straightness for her skateboarding-related concussion

* Chris Harrison’s new trad marriage dating show

* Epstein’s hand in the #MeToo backlash

* The files telling us what we already know re: the conspiracy of patriarchy

* Sexual violence isn’t just a problem of the global elite

* Clavicular: the manospherean looksmaxxer who took a hammer to his jaw

* The politics of the gaze and the normalization of the hetero pose

* Wuthering Heights lingerie

* Does Jacob Elordi have BDE… or “The Dick Doesn’t Even Matter” Energy?

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