Many Such Takes: Vagina Smells, Age Gap Discourse, Menswear Guy Drama

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Vagina Smells

Well that got your attention, didn’t it? No, this isn’t just a clickbait headline completely unrelated to vaginal smells, because Dr. Smells (aka Dr. Ally Louks, aka Twitter’s “menswear guy for smells”) will be speaking at the famed (and apparently, controversial) Vagina Museum on the politics of vaginal aromas:

Regrettably, she did the thing (but I’m glad she did! What a blazer!)

Now, you might be wondering why the Vagina Museum is controversial, and basically, my understanding is the issue has to do with their inclusion of trans and nonbinary people with vaginas. Seems legit, given that it’s the vagina museum, not the cisgender woman museum, but invariably people who have never even considered visiting the Vagina Museum get upset about this every now and then.

However, you must also consider that vaginas in general are just gross and we shouldn’t have a museum about them at all.

I was genuinely curious about what kind of stuff would be at the vagina museum, regardless of gender identity, and I did find one kind of cool thing. TIL!

Age Gap Discourse

What is Twitter, if not one big feed of age gap discourse? This week, we got two notable age gap hot topics. The first was when Tracee Ellis Ross went on the podcast of *checks notes* Michelle Obama to announce that she prefers to date younger men:

Incoming: what if the genders were reversed? It’s honestly so predictable at this point that it feels simulated.

I will say, this was one angle I didn’t expect:

Tracee is 52, so “younger” in her scenario, realistically, would be guys in their 30s or 40s (millennials) and I believe this is backed up by her dating history. Men this age, according to her, are not plagued by the toxic masculinity of Gen X. But apparently, “older” men are also desired by Gen Z women for the exact same reason (the title of the article doesn’t explain it, but if you read the whole thing it’s heavily implied that Gen Z men are too sexist.)

I have major issues with this article, mostly because the images chosen would have you believe that the older men in question are in their sixties, when the only real-life example of dating an older man mentioned in the article includes a guy who is still in his twenties. Moreover, the first several “examples” they gave aren’t even about young women dating older men (which happens often enough for them to find more than one example) they’re just about young women thinking that Chelsea from The White Lotus was right to stay with her fifty-something boyfriend Rick as opposed to “fuckboy” Saxon, who is around her age. The article then finishes with multiple other fictional romances, including ones with the age gap reversed, for some reason.

Well, at least now I feel a bit better about the quality of my reporting.

Menswear Guy Drama

Menswear Guy has been featured on Many Such Takes many times before, and I’d say the one thing all of his stories have in common is that he simply cannot lose an argument. Recently, I forgot to cover it, but apparently he challenged some guy on Twitter to fight him outside a San Francisco Uniqlo, and then said the same thing to another guy while telling one guy he was White and the other he was Asian. Reportedly, this led to an actual White and Asian brawl outside Uniqlo (I think that last part is made up, but I’m choosing to pretend it’s real.) Anyway, it’s time for some new Menswear Guy lore!

Menswear Guy popped in to confirm this is true:

My favorite tweet on the topic:

Funny Tweets/Other Happenings

• Apparently Trump is putting JD Vance in charge of the tariffs now that he knows everyone’s mad about them. For Peep Show fans, it’s giving Project Zeus!

A follower of mine created this in response, which is just too funny not to post, even if only 12 people get the joke:

• In other news, we are looking at some major Dril competition:

• For a wholesome change of pace: one of the cutest cakes I’ve ever seen, and somewhat doable-looking?

• Normal things happening on the new covid.gov page:

• New restaurant genre just dropped:

• Just another day on X: