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pop culture

Virginity is Fake, So Why is it Still a Rite of Passage?

Despite its reputation as a sexist film, I rewatched “American Pie” and some parts still hold up for me, more than 25 years later.
16 Mar 2025 6 min read
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books

A New Era for Latino Cookbooks

Latino cookbooks written by Latino people used to be an anomaly, but with the publication of “SalviSoul” and “Bodega Bakes,” the canon is expanding even further.
05 Mar 2025 9 min read
Private Equity “R” U.S. (ft. Megan Greenwell)
Cancel Me, Daddy

Private Equity “R” U.S. (ft. Megan Greenwell)

The "Cancel Me, Daddy" podcast transcript and show notes for 3/6/2025
04 Mar 2025 1 min read
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fashion

The Enshittification of eShakti

eShakti ghosted workers and customers alike, and the dream of something better than fast fashion died with it.
03 Mar 2025 8 min read
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Fellas, Is Trash Praxis?

The greenwashing is coming from inside the house.
24 Feb 2025 8 min read
Illustration: A lush Puerto Rican landscape. In the foreground, a pair of brown hands hold up a shattered heart with the word "home."
pop culture

“DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS” is Bad Bunny’s Latest Decolonial Text

Bad Bunny’s new album places loss at the center of tropical paradise, elucidating vacation spots as colonial constructs.
09 Feb 2025 8 min read
Illustration: Jonathan Chaidt looking like a giant tool.
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religion

Haidt Crimes: On Moral Foundations Theory and the Normalization of Fascism

Powerful centrists with milquetoast politics are once again demanding we have empathy for people who would destroy us.
09 Feb 2025 11 min read
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Christopher

Fearing the man society could have made me into.
03 Feb 2025 9 min read
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abuse and abusers

Flytrap Roundtable Special: That Whole Awful Neil Gaiman Thing

Can 'cool male feminists' have it all? They'd sure like to!
29 Jan 2025 12 min read
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Reality Bytes

So-called ‘AI,’ performative ignorance, and old-fashioned human assholery are degrading reality as we know it.
27 Jan 2025 12 min read
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Pay Me What You Owe Me

Independent media always gets homages on social media after it shutters – what if that support amounted to monetary donations that helped keep it alive and thriving?
20 Jan 2025 8 min read
Illustration: An aggressive muscle car with a BROSKI plate and a giant hovering skull surrounded by the text "cities are designed by men."
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urban planning

Cities Are Designed By Men – and it Shows

Urbanism is full of critical feminist issues, but the lack of women helping to shape American cities endangers us all.
13 Jan 2025 6 min read
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politics

Quitting Men Isn't a Political Strategy

White women’s individualistic calls to disavow men — while invoking the 4B movement in South Korea — do nothing to achieve collective liberation from patriarchy.
06 Jan 2025 12 min read
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Yet Another End-of-Year Recommendations Post!

Here's What the Flyteam Ate Up in 2024.
29 Dec 2024 13 min read
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family

Feast of the Seven Fishes and Eight Abs

Canceling Vinny Guadagnino and Christmas Eve at the Jersey Shore.
22 Dec 2024 14 min read
Illustration in green and black: A long-haired person faces a billboard advertising "The Substance" while a syringe oozes green goo.
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pop culture

The Substance Asks the Question: Can Hollywood Escape Its Own Beauty Standards?

The latest feminist film about society’s obsession with youth never answers its own question.
09 Dec 2024 9 min read
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family

The Most? Wonderful? Time? of the Year

The Christian Christmas industrial complex wants us to buy the illusion of unity while fascism prepares to enter the White House.
09 Dec 2024 12 min read
Alf Hog and the Bluesky X-odus (ft. Faine Greenewood)

Alf Hog and the Bluesky X-odus (ft. Faine Greenewood)

The "Cancel Me, Daddy" podcast transcript and show notes for 5 December 2024.
05 Dec 2024 2 min read
The Loser Election (ft. Michael Hobbes)
politics

The Loser Election (ft. Michael Hobbes)

The "Cancel Me, Daddy" podcast transcript and show notes for 14 November 2024.
04 Dec 2024 1 min read
Illustration in blue and white: Four gorgeous fat women in lingerie posing together. One has a cane.
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pop culture

Young, Fat, and Gifted

Two new streaming comedies show viewers are eager for stories about fat Black women that don’t just rewrite old, damaging scripts about our lives.
01 Dec 2024 8 min read
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pop culture

Housewife Luxury Will Never Be Quiet

Get your half-baked class analysis out of my face
24 Nov 2024 6 min read
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religion

The Red Mass Went Up My Ass

My colonoscopy was a microcosm of what’s about to come to the U.S.
15 Nov 2024 12 min read
Photo illustration: A hot pink and purple pavement princess with The Flytrap's logo on the door tearing up the streets.
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urban planning

Think Outside the Glove(box)

Car dependency doesn’t have to be the end of the road.
11 Nov 2024 11 min read
Illustration in black and cream: A stack of televisions with screens reading "Shorten the Cycle" "Free Us From This Yawning Abyss."
politics

The U.S. Election Cycle Is Too Damn Long

American elections are increasingly leading us to feel depressed, anxious, and stressed. One potential solution: Putting an end to constant electioneering.
04 Nov 2024 6 min read
Illustration in purple, black, and brown: Three characters from "Evil" stare defiantly at the reader.
television

The Freaky Feminism of 'Evil,' TV's Weirdest Horror Hit

Showrunners Michelle and Robert King surrounded their demons-of-the-week with feminist signifiers, but ultimately stopped short of really condemning the patriarchy.
30 Oct 2024 8 min read
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