"Zohran Mamdani wants to make sure that all of his constituents have affordable housing, universal child care and boyfriends who don't make them cringe."
""No," Mamdani said, before offering some sound advice. "But, if you're worried if your boyfriend will embarrass you, you should probably get a new boyfriend." He later added: "Another thing that would be embarrassing is if your boyfriend doesn't go out and vote.""
"The Vogue piece Plank was referring to wonders whether straight women nowadays are subscribing to the idea of "heterofatalism," a term coined by academic Asa Seresin in 2019 that describes the resigned belief that heterosexual relationships are emotionally unfulfilling. Seresin notes that this is "expressed in the form of regret, embarrassment, or hopelessness about straight experience." An example of this "performative disaffiliation with heterosexuality" according to a piece in New York Times Magazine , is a straight woman complaining to her female friend that a relationship with a man didn't work out and wishing she were gay so she could date the female friend in whom she's confiding."
Calls aim to secure affordable housing and universal child care while encouraging personal relationships that do not cause embarrassment. The notion that having a boyfriend is mortifying was rejected, with direct advice to replace partners who embarrass their partners. Not voting was presented as another form of embarrassment. The concept of heterofatalism is defined as a resigned belief that heterosexual relationships are emotionally unfulfilling, expressed through regret, embarrassment, or hopelessness. Performative disaffiliation can appear as wishing a failed heterosexual relationship had been with a same-sex friend. Concerns about a male loneliness crisis and related social dynamics were also noted.
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