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4 days ago

Girls Who Love Boys Who Love Boys

We can now look back on November 28, 2025, as the start of a mass-psychosis event. In an era of neo-puritanical television slop, a fresh, horny breeze swept in from Canada: Heated Rivalry, a six-episode series about two professional hockey rivals turned lovers, Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov, stirred something deep in the American psyche. Ordinary taxpaying adult women, many of them my friends, suddenly lost control of their faculties over "the gay hockey show."
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Why can't women enjoy Heated Rivalry without being treated with contempt? | Zoe Williams

Fandom around Heated Rivalry exposes sexist stereotypes about female viewers, nationality-based closeting, and generational assumptions shaping reactions to male-male romantic tension.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
5 months ago

Why we've all fallen for The Summer I Turned Pretty: Endless, wonderful melodrama'

A teen melodrama has attracted massive adult viewership, inspiring emotional investment and watch parties among people well beyond its intended teenage audience.
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