In Taylor Swift’s song “Anti-Hero,” my favorite song on her Midnights album, she sings “It must be exhausting always rooting for the anti-hero.” But you know what? I think here in America, we never ever tire of rooting for the assholes. Why am I talking about anti-heroes? It struck me that I’ve recently devoured two novels of amoral disconnected young women. Initially I was going to write about how the morally bankrupt heroines in both novels said something interesting about feminism. And maybe they do, but why limit myself to just women? Everywhere you turn, you see our culture canonize people whose behavior is irretrievably self-serving. We celebrate the Kardashians for being unabashedly self-obsessed and superficial, we joke about how untethered from social responsibility all the tech billionaires are, and who is once again the leading candidate in the GOP? A man whose brand is malignant narcissism.
Everybody is a sexy baby
Everybody is a sexy baby
Everybody is a sexy baby
In Taylor Swift’s song “Anti-Hero,” my favorite song on her Midnights album, she sings “It must be exhausting always rooting for the anti-hero.” But you know what? I think here in America, we never ever tire of rooting for the assholes. Why am I talking about anti-heroes? It struck me that I’ve recently devoured two novels of amoral disconnected young women. Initially I was going to write about how the morally bankrupt heroines in both novels said something interesting about feminism. And maybe they do, but why limit myself to just women? Everywhere you turn, you see our culture canonize people whose behavior is irretrievably self-serving. We celebrate the Kardashians for being unabashedly self-obsessed and superficial, we joke about how untethered from social responsibility all the tech billionaires are, and who is once again the leading candidate in the GOP? A man whose brand is malignant narcissism.