Many Such Takes: 2003, Day in the Life, Forced to Work, Quiet Queers, Male Concubines

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Nov 05, 2024

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2003

Netflix released a promo for Time Cut, which presumably transports a character to 2003. And everyone immediately noticed it just didn’t seem authentic.

Basically, how do I say this…people weren’t matte in 2003. Unless they were using Maybelline matte dream mousse foundation but even then, they were mostly just flakey. There was a certain degree of awkwardness missing from the promo.

I didn’t notice it at first, but a big mistake with the promo was that almost every student shown was preppy. Granted, preppy clothes were considered stylish in 2003, but this trailor is major Hot Topic mall Goth erasure. In 2003, I had a massive crush on a guy in my school named Guiseppe who had a bright blue mohawk and wore giant black cargo pants with all sorts of chains on them. WHERE IS GUISEPPE?

Day in the Life

This week, Internet anthropologist coldhealing posted a “day in the life” video from TikTok in which a 25-year-old man details his daily routine working in Chicago and commuting…very far away, not clear exactly where. (It seems to take him 90 minutes to get home from the office.)

Like many day in the life videos, this was fairly unremarkable. The only thing that stood out to many people was the insane commute, and the fact that the video was almost shot in a borderline sad way? Hard to explain, he just kind of looks sad and gray, and inexplicably keeps his backpack on while he’s at home. I see this as the unfortunate repercussions of all the remote work versions of this trend in which people bragged about spending all day doing pilates and making smoothies. Look, work life balance is important, but so is discretion.

Anyway, this was my take on the sad little commuter:

What other folks had to say:

Some other people speculated that his age and fatherhood status means he’s a right winger:

This is probably the best take I’ve seen on this topic:

Forced to Work

FYI, I wrote an entire article about this yesterday, which you can read here. But for those of you who just want the summary, read on.

As a woman who just quit her job (not to be a tradwife per se- just to be a Substack writer) I naturally had to watch this video where conservative activist Jacky Eubanks, in the midst of a debate, claims that feminism has ruined her dream of not working. In fact, I wrote a whole series (Part 1, Part 2) on young women today who don’t want to work for a myriad of reasons, so I found this super compelling.

Anyway, the below woman insisted her dream was to work on a homestead, but she’s not allowed to do that because she was forced to go to college and work.

I found it odd that the example of the ideal life she gave was being pregnant with two other young children, milking cows and getting eggs. Let me rephrase that: it’s not odd, it’s actually very expected, because many of our fantasies about a pastoral life come from The Sims: Cottage Living. But the life she’s describing actually sounds really tough, and probably much harder than just working a white collar job. Plus- SAHMs still exist!

But what about this: have you considered that she just isn’t hot enough?

Anyway:

You should follow Infinite Scroll by the aforementioned Jeremiah Johnson, by the way.

Quiet Queers

Look, as a Straight I don’t have much skin in the game, but I would be remiss not to cover this latest edition of Subway Takes, which includes someone who time traveled from 2015:

Basically the idea is that some people are queer, but are living “hetero lives” by refusing to decolonize, unpack, and “dig deeper,” especially “gentrifier bisexuals.” Nope. Nope! Not doing this in 2024! We don’t want that shit here!

Wow, I Didn’t Imagine This

I did a live session on gender and politics this week, and somehow recent demon attack victim Tucker Carlson came up. I mentioned that I could have sworn he did some segment on asexuality back when he was a “normal Republican” contributor on the LAMESTREAM MEDIA. My friend, who was listening in to the live session, immediately texted me that I definitely imagined this. But a listener tracked down the segment and it is, in fact, real.

I recommend you watch if you want to feel like you’re living in a simulation. Tucker is surprisingly open-minded for what you’d imagine 2006 Tucker Carlson to be (seriously, he’s unrecognizable, minus the bow tie) but he does repeatedly badger his guest to “just try sex once,” and compares it to a child trying goat cheese a few times before realizing he likes it. Fun stuff!

More Weird Stuff From The Guy Who Shot Bin Laden

The cool thing about living in 2024 is that people who are part of big moments in history can just pop off about whatever they want online, and we all get to watch it. Can you imagine if Ben Franklin had Twitter? First of all, it would be goon city, but also, how fun!

The downside is that the “surprisingly weird Twitter personality” of our time is Robert J. O’Neill, the guy who shot Osama Bin Laden. And apparently, he’s really into keeping boys as “concubines.” Cool!

One of the nubile young men in the image had this to say:

At some point there was also a deleted tweet where the Bin Laden guy fantasized about not only having sex with young men, but eating them. In his Dahmer era!

This even made it to his Wikipedia page:

Best Tweets of the Week

I think we have a contender for the “cringe lib tweet of the election.” It’s giving Ruthkanda meets Beto O’ Rourke holding your legs down (sorry to remind you of that.)