Healthy Masculinity Through the Female Lens
Last year having a boyfriend was embarrassing. This year everyone seems to be coupled up - and earnestly posting about. Are women with boyfriends driving a new movement of masculinity, or pushing other “incels” further into the depths of the manosphere? Scrolling through my instagram, women whom I’ve followed for years, whose content has always been quite distinctly feminist and independently whimsical, even in some cases arguably anti-men in a satirical kind of way, all suddenly seem to have started posting their boyfriends. Though new, these men are still incorporated into the usual aesthetic of their content. Lucy , a German content creator whose aesthetic revolved around moving to Paris has, obviously, fallen in love with a French man. Fitness influencer Ana has started dating and posting an athletic champion pond skimmer, and Emily, whose content was specifically about the dire dating pool, also seems to have found love at last. Of course, the fact that I’m in m...
