Thinking of @moiradonegan.bsky.social writing in Book Forum last year on the desire latent in tradwife discourse less for a husband than for a parent
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David Roberts
Yup, @jamellebouie.net has this exactly right. What these guys are celebrating/pursuing/yearning for is not masculine energy, it's *adolescent* energy. Drinking Red Bull, crushing Call of Duty, refusing to clean your room. It is indescribably pathetic. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/o...
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I suspect this latent desire is linked to a desire for a limit—a limit to the ethics of the feminine that ex-sists beyond the limit, beyond the phallus, and I. The beyond of the father.