Being mistreated by your partner is chic now, ladies!
He’s not walking out on you if you let him. It’s not cheating if you pretend you’re into it. It’s not infidelity — it’s sexy!
At least that’s what celebrity influencers would like you to think — such as Nikki Glaser, who insisted that her boyfriend sleeping with other women is actually a turn on.
The comedian, 41, said she “kinda [likes] it” when her boyfriend, a fairly unknown TV producer called Chris Convy, hooks up with other women in a Wednesday episode of the “Call Her Daddy” podcast.
Open relationships are controversial enough, but that’s not exactly her setup: “I don’t really care if my boyfriend were to hook up. But that is not a two-way street. I’m not someone who likes to hook up when I’m in a relationship… But I don’t care if someone else were to.”
It’s trendy to be non-monogamous and to be romantically open minded. But so often, it’s women being asked to sit by while their husbands run through other women. They cope by calling it “empowerment,” but it’s a sad way of enabling cheaters while hiding behind progressivism.
However, Glaser told Call Her Daddy host Alex Cooper “emotional cheating” was a step too far — yet another dubious qualification she uses to justify the unjustifiable.
“If a guy has a sexual connection with a girl, and he wants to use protection and just have sex for a night, I literally wouldn’t care if my husband did that,” she said. “If he were to… do crossword puzzles and send memes and stuff [to another woman], I would be like, ‘What the f—k are you doing?’”
Glaser — host of HBO shows “Blind Date” and “FBoy Island” — said she wants “a guy that other girls want.” But what’s special about that, if they can all have him? It’s a symptom of a culture that has devalued sex. If there’s no emotional connection, we’re told, infidelity doesn’t actually matter.
Glaser isn’t the only celeb with this sort of toxic dynamic. Author and comedian Lindy West admitted in her latest book “Adult Braces” to capitulating to her husband’s ultimatum that he needs to be able to sleep with other women — even though the request left her in tears.
“I was devastated,” she told the New York Times. “Our initial conversation was a lot of me crying and being like, I don’t want anyone else… I thought we would probably have a baby and buy a house.”
But now she’s so happy, she swears, about her new life with another woman — her husband’s girlfriend — in the home her late father left to her.
“I love sleeping in the guest room and crawling into bed with them in the morning,” she writes. “I love when they tuck me in and leave me to play on my phone as late as I want.” Sounds great! You go girl!
It’s a lifestyle that toxic manosphere influencers promote, too, just with a totally different political valance. “Fresh and Fit” podcast host Myron Gaines explained he was in a similar set-up as Glaser’s in an appearance on the Netflix documentary “Inside the Manosphere.”
“I do what the f—k I want to do,” he boasted. “She’s loyal to me. It’s monogamous on her end, open on my end. She packs my f—king condoms when I travel, that’s how real it is.”
He calls it “one-way monogamy,” and has rightfully been called a misogynist for choosing the lifestyle; when progressive women celebrities say the same, it’s empowerment! In practice, it’s no different.
Our culture has accepted a truth: men tend more often than women to stray in relationships. But, rather than ask them to be better in their partnerships, progressive feminists have done the most regressive thing possible.
They’ve catered to the patriarchy, and given men permission to go hog wild. They can have all the perks of relationships, plus all the ladies they want on the side.
Perhaps there is the rare one in a million woman who, for whatever reason, is turned on by being left behind while her husband is out with other women. But, for every one of her, there are countless others who have been talked into their own debasement in the name of empowerment.
