"Is having a boyfriend embarrassing? Yes, British Vogue made the ruling recently in a gently provocative piece, declaring it quite culturally loser-ish and more of a flex to pronounce yourself single. Heterosexuality, #couplegoals, being proudly loved-up or posting even the subtlest soft launch a teaser shot on socials of the hairy back of a hand on the other side of a table, or a buff-looking shadow have all, apparently, become deeply uncool."
"If boyfriends are embarrassing, having a husband is probably worse; the most beige, normie commitment. I'm used to being an embarrassment I parented two teenagers but it's a blow as bad as skinny jeans being declared unacceptable. I hardly ever mention my spouse online, since he thinks social media is the opium of the intellectually feeble, but maybe I should erase him entirely, Trotsky-style, from my Insta grid? It made me wonder if any other relationships are even more embarrassing."
A major fashion publication declared having a boyfriend culturally loser-ish and positioned public couple displays as uncool while praising singleness. Online singletons welcomed the stance as validation of their life choices. The piece suggests husbands represent an even more beige, normie commitment. The narrator rarely mentions a spouse online and jokes about erasing him from social media. Other relationship forms were considered—helicopter parent, superfan, caregiver, hub-son—and judged mostly defensible. Parasocial attachments, object relationships, and eccentric commitments like marrying landmarks are described as acceptable. The narrator expresses no strong objection to unconventional or private relationships.
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