Uninformed Opinions: Fight, Flex, or Fade
On Ozempic uprisings, Iran's TikTok war, Sydney Sweeney's diaper, and Madonna's schedule.
Strength and muscle are the new elite signaling now that GLP-1s have made thinness accessible to anyone. Ozempic will be the unlikely catalyst of an uprising of women who get a taste of physical power and embrace it. Think Linda Hamilton from Terminator 1 to Terminator 2.
Iran's Lego video trolling propaganda strategy and possibly requesting Obama as the new US wartime consigliere makes the claim that reality has become unhinged because of a CERN something or other sound less crazy. TikTok is the new kill zone, trolling as an armamentarium.
Sydney Sweeney in the happy baby pose wearing a diaper and sucking a binky was the most disturbing scene in Euphoria. This latest depiction of female humiliation feels like sanction versus satire. I am disappointed in myself for being addictively entertained by the misery of these characters.
Runway had potential but it’s a little too RuPaul. A Madonna cameo, a Vogue interruption would have been less camp and more intentionally referential. Maybe they asked her. Maybe she declined. She’s on the cover of her new album in a pink see-through veil and purple lingerie. She looks like she has time.