Relationships
Having A Boyfriend Is Not Embarrassing, Your Need For Clout Is
Misery’s easiest power move is pretending the things your peers enjoy are actually beneath you. Right now, for a lot of young women, that thing is love.
By Jaimee Marshall8 min read
Vogue recently published a viral op-ed entitled, “Is Having a Boyfriend Embarrassing Now?” and it’s kind of an anthropological case study on the evolving status of being taken. Where historically, women’s identities were centered around their partners, now we’re finding ourselves in a culture of status reversal. Out with “Boyfriend Land” and in with… Perpetual E-Girl?