Tag: Heteronormative Monoculture

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

As I grow older,I find myself missing things like Playboy and the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show. I also miss the good old days when Hollywood told simple, heteronormative stories that were Just Movies with no “woke” agenda that was beaten into the audience’s skull.

To even talk about the existence of heteronormative monoculture in a wistful, positive way causes some cultural warriors on the Left to spit blood out of their eyes. At the risk of sounding “Red Pilled” I definitely feel as though cultural Leftists are doing themselves no favors by making people feel bad about wishing heteronormative monoculture still existed.

I am well aware of the very dark backstories of both Playboy and Victoria’s Secret, but I think there was an air of tradition about them back when they existed. They were comfort food for everyday people for decades. There was no sense that they had to feel bad for being straight and traditional.

But here we are — even things as basic as liking hot chicks in various forms of undress is a partisan issue. Yet, I think we’ve lost something with the demise of Playboy and Victoria’s Secret. I suppose, of course, that with the rise of internet porn, Playboy’s demise was inevitable.

Combine this with the collapse of the print publishing business and the shocking revelations about Hugh Hefner and, well, lulz. And, in its own way, Victoria’s Secret was just as bad. There was a lot of dirty dealing going on in the shadows when it comes to Victoria’s Secret.

But such things are inevitable when you’re dealing with the most beautiful women in the world. It’s just at some point, we as a culture decided the trade off wasn’t worth it. It’s just sad — at least to me — that gorgeous women in small towns don’t have the Playboy route to showbiz career as a viable choice anymore. And walking the Victoria’s Secret runway was a real dream for a lot of drop dead gorgeous women.

Now, it seems the “woke cancel culture mob” wants everyone to be gay, fat and ugly and they punish people who have the temerity to be anything other than that. (That is what my Traditionalist relatives seem to believe, at least.)

I just wish there was some middle ground. I think a lot of what I’m feeling is just being old. Things aren’t what they used to be and I have to accept that. Barring a Great Reset that causes us all to go back to the way things used to be….this is it. No more Playboy with cultural relevance and no more Victoria’s Secret Fashion show.