# The Performative Male Summer That Wasn't

Source: https://www.getthemelt.com/p/performative-male-summer-?isFreemail=true&post_id=171272704&publication_id=41629&r=oq3q&triedRedirect=true
Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/The-Performative-Male-Summer-That-Wasnt?index=0x68a82f9196fb50f1615afa459530061fa18d0d0f587ad5e81bf946c70f232e54a937f087
Submitted by naomiii.eth on 2025-08-22 UTC, 5 upvotes, 3 comments

## Comments

**rvolz.eth**: > At some point I think we’re all going to have to admit that none of us have any idea what the hell is going on, and letting social media explain things to us is about as bad as getting ChatGPT to summarize novels for us so we can claim that we read them.

🤔 Well, then the unique thing about old Blinkist was that an actual human did that, not some AI? Or is the past tense inappropriate, and the human touch will be the new, new thing?

**tim**: Wait isn't a performative male just a fuckboy?

**tim**: > among other trendy interests deemed "performative," like drinking matcha or possessing a Labubu,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performative_male

This is a real sentence from the Wikipedia :D