Many Such Takes: Beautiful Wife, Men's Fashion, Drake's Oktoberfest Fit and More

The most unhinged discourse of the week, always free

Welcome to Many Such Takes! For those unfamiliar, this is a free weekly segment (I also do lots of other stuff!) For Many Such Takes, I stay up to date with the latest and most chaotic Twitter discourse so you don’t have to.

Heads up—you can now access all the chapters of my book of true short stories, Will There Be Free Food? along with other true short stories here. Some of them are free!

Beautiful Wife

This week, an AI researcher named Richard Ngo suggested that men stop introducing their wives as “my beautiful wife” and instead introduce them with adjectives that focus less on their appearance. We love a feminist ally, or do we?

I would actually run to a plastic surgeon’s office (or at least a hair salon) if my husband ever introduced my as “my honorable wife.” As it turns out, I’m not the only one.

Luckily, he was a good sport:

I applaud Richard for his noble pursuit but I think 99% of women would be very happy to simply hear their husbands call them beautiful. Most women probably don’t hear it enough. Unless you’ve got one of those “Ugh, beauty is as much a curse as it is a blessing” wives, and if that’s the case, maybe you should start calling her “my courageous wife” or something else to keep her on her toes.

Men’s Fashion

I’ve written about men’s fashion before, but admittedly it’s not my specialty. In fact, I might have been wrong about plenty of the fashion rules I advised men to follow or not follow. I can only speak for what women like, per the results of my men’s fashion survey. And apparently, women really like this outfit:

I like it too. I mean, for a WFH, the khakis would be a little odd, but the shirt is nice and dressing up never killed anyone. Most men could—and don’t hate me for this—try a lot harder than they’re currently triyng. But like any fashion-related discussion on Twitter, this one riled people up. And I would know—I was the Main Character thanks to my worst-ever outfit. For some reason, men’s fashion seems much more heated, maybe because men aren’t as afraid of hurting each other’s feelings with fashion critiques.

First, the fans:

While plenty of women had positive things to say about it, it clogged up everyone’s feeds to the point that what we ultimately saw was people making fun of it or yelling at women for liking it.

It’s true, men in good shape just wear spandex body sleeves.

Sorry, this guy has more mugs (possibly of tea?) so his outfit is hotter:

Plenty of men theorized that the outfit would only signal attractiveness on a guy who was hot. Groundbreaking!

But this was funny, I fear:

It looks like the outfit is catching on. Potentially a great Halloween costume this year for the 1.5 people who might get the reference:

Layers upon layers. Someone said this was “milkmaid dress discourse” but for the gents, and thanks to the wonders of AI, all our too-online delusions are coming to life. Yes. YES!!!

Drake’s Oktoberfest Fit

While we’re on the topic of men’s fashion, I might as well cover this. Everyone on Twitter teamed up to make fun of what might be the worst outfit I’ve ever seen, and that’s really saying something. Also, we’re allowed to be mean, because it’s Drake:

This was his outfit for Oktoberfest, which explains why he looks like the German kid who got sucked into the chocolate tube in Willy Wonka’s factory. But come on, he’s wearing Chanel embroidered cropped overalls and something I believed was a necktie bow but actually appears to be a….2012-era owl necklace???

For all you young people who don’t understand, he’s channeling millennial 2010s-era realness. WHY?

Some Twitter denizens referred to Drake as “Little Lord Fauntleroy,” “the berries and cream guy” and a “Bavarian 6-year-old.”

All I can say is this:

Funny Tweets/Other Happenings

A rare Bluesky-type tweet spotted on 2025 Twitter:

In case you missed it…