Zohran Mamdani wants to make sure all his constituents have affordable housing, universal childcare and boyfriends who don’t screw them over.
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The mayor-elect of New York appeared on Liz Plank’s show Children’s problems podcast on Tuesday and was asked about a recent Vogue article that asked if women today find it “embarrassing” to have a boyfriend.
“The women who were interviewed for the piece,” informed Mamdani Plank, “said they felt almost like a Republican when they had a boyfriend. He’s going to put you down somehow. If you have a boyfriend, you shouldn’t post him on IG.”
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Plank then asked Mamdani if he agreed with the notion that having a boyfriend is annoying.
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“No,” said Mamdani, before offering some weighty advice. “But if you’re worried about your boyfriend embarrassing you, you should probably find a new boyfriend.
He later added, “The other thing that would be embarrassing is if your guy doesn’t get out and vote.”
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In a Vogue piece, Plank pondered the question of whether heterosexual women these days subscribe to the idea of ”heterofatalism,” in 2019. for a term proposed by academic Asa Seresin to describe the resigned belief that heterosexual relationships are emotionally unsatisfying. Seresin notes that this is “expressed as regret, confusion, or despair over direct experience.”
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An example of this “performative disengagement from heterosexuality,” according to the New York Times Magazine, is a straight woman complaining to her friend that her relationship with her husband didn’t work out and wishing she was gay so she could date a friend she trusts.
Earlier in her interview, Plank asked Mamdani about the “male loneliness crisis,” noting that many women who tune into her podcast say the discourse of the term makes them feel like “women have to solve this problem of young men feeling more isolated.”
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Plank asked Mamdani if he would implement any policies to try to address this.
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“First and foremost, I think it’s not women’s responsibility to solve this crisis,” he said. “I think it’s a crisis that comes from systemic forces, and a lot of it has to do with just a greater sense of alienation in today’s world, because people can afford things more and more, and the connections between people are disappearing.”
He noted that many of the New Yorkers involved in his campaign became friends simply through scouting.
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“And I think that’s also something I’m very interested in as the next mayor of the city — how do we create more third spaces? How do we create more places for people to hang out? People can just be themselves without the constant pressure of having to spend money with every interaction?”
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This article originally appeared on HuffPost.
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