We Didn't Get a MAGA Male Sexual Revolution
DOGE and AI-replacement layoffs were supposed to put useless girlboss LARPers back in their place--but that didn't happen.
One of my most popular articles of last year was DOGE Is About Sex, where I argued that, while it was likely not Elon Musk’s or Trump objective, a lot of the online cheering for mass federal layoffs (via DOGE) was related to the sexual marketplace.
I know that A.) this thesis sounds almost as unhinged and farfetched as the left-leaning version of whatever Candace Owens says after two martinis and B.) left-leaning people (especially women) sour at the idea of a “sexual marketplace” existing at all. But whether you believe that sex and dating is inherently a game of power or not, it doesn’t matter—a lot of other people believe it is, and it colors their beliefs. Ergo: a lot of young right-wing men believed that DOGE layoffs (among other large-scale variables) would ring in, more or less, a male sexual revolution. By removing undeserved privileges (ie: jobs) from women, men would have more relative power and better options, while women would have fewer options, less relative power, and all would be right in the world. This isn’t just my crackpot theory—plenty of men (obviously, #notallmen) openly admitted this fantasy was behind their pro-layoffs, pro-tariffs, pro-AI-job-replacement beliefs.
And the verdict is in: it didn’t happen.
