Maybe the girl who asks you ‘what time were you born?’ Is becoming the default 🔮🔮
FULL ESSAY ON SUBSTACK: /pub/smizzo/p/men-are-flocking-to-organised-religion?r=5mptqo&utm_medium=ios
Because activism isn’t about what you say, it’s about what you do (ft a million and one dinner parties I’d rather be at) 🇱🇧🇵🇸🇮🇷🇮🇶🇸🇾🇸🇩
Read the full article on Substack: /pub/smizzo/p/please-dont-invite-me-to-your-dinner?r=5mptqo&utm_medium=ios
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Female beauty ideals have stereotypically followed the gender norms of femininity. Soft, coy, inoffensive and sexy. For the first time, there was a zeitgeist, a middle finger up to women being palatable. The male gaze was dead. Are the performative days of femininity now over? Or has it simply been repackaged?
Read more on Substack: /pub/smizzo/p/why-every-girl-looks-dead-behind?r=5mptqo&utm_medium=ios
Pop culture is in need of an autopsy. It’s not just ai fruit, labubu core, clean girl aesthetics and Marty Supreme.
Pop culture grabs attention, attention dictates what matters, what matters becomes identity, identity becomes performance, performance becomes behaviour and behaviour then sways society.
Read more on Substack: /pub/smizzo/p/pop-culture-needs-an-autopsy?r=5mptqo&utm_medium=ios
The manosphere isn’t niche and it isn’t new. It’s patriarchy repackaged for the age of algorithms and collective attention deficit. As long as media takes keep framing this toxic masculinity as some passing trend, nothing gets curbed — the narrative just keeps spewing.
Full article over on Substack: /pub/smizzo/p/were-framing-the-manosphere-all-wrong?r=5mptqo&utm_medium=ios
#manosphere #louistheroux #netflix
A diasporid among Western cognitive dissonance.
War is not just something streamed in 4K on our TV screens or turned into ‘dinner table’ talk. It is a lived experience, where the people affected become a side note to the conflict — never the headline.
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Read the full piece over on Substack: /pub/smizzo/p/the-week-they-blew-up-my-homeland?r=5mptqo&utm_medium=ios
Farage has had a grip on the psyche of the UK with his anti-immigration drivel, but his potential views on reproductive rights are lesser known. His interaction with and platforming of the likes of Goodwin, as well as his connections with the ADF, tell us where his time in Parliament could take us in a few years — and it is serious.
Full article on my substack:
/pub/smizzo/p/you-dont-get-to-panic-about-birth?r=5mptqo&utm_medium=ios
