Episode 129 -- Looksmaxxing
In Bed With The Right
Adrian Daub and Moira Donegan
4.8 • 654 Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2026
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Moira walks Adrian through the strange, disturbing world of looksmaxxing. We try to spend less time asking where this phenomenon comes from, less time gawking at the weird terminology and rituals of this subculture (though we do spend some time, we're only human!)--but our main question is what a phenomenon like looksmaxxing says about masculinity, right-wing gender politics, and heterosexuality.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Stacey. |
| 0:06.4 | And I'm Chad. |
| 0:08.1 | And whether we like it or not, we're woke-mogging the right. |
| 0:13.9 | I don't know what I just said. |
| 0:15.2 | This language really is everywhere. |
| 0:17.8 | I read an interview with this one journalist who had covered these people, and he said |
| 0:21.8 | that part of the point of the subculture that we're talking about today was exactly to make |
| 0:28.0 | uncool millennials repeat the slang and humiliate themselves. And I'm going to be real with you, |
| 0:34.8 | Adrian, I think the people who sound like they're humiliating |
| 0:37.7 | themselves are the people who talk like this earnestly. I don't need to like worry about sounding |
| 0:43.4 | uncool to like an in-cell 15-year-old because I'm not trying to impress a Nazi child. |
| 0:49.4 | In this episode, I think we're going to be talking about looks maxing as an ersatz, right? |
| 0:53.5 | It's men treating their bodies the way women have traditionally been forced to treat their bodies. |
| 0:58.8 | But there's another ersatz dimension, and it has to do with what you were just riffing on, |
| 1:03.5 | the subculture's incredible semantic generativity, the fact that it's just like has a lot of terms to go along with it, right? |
| 1:09.5 | My suspicion is it's kind of straight incels trying to do the gay community. |
| 1:13.9 | I have two tweets that I sent you, and I think I might read the first one, which is about |
| 1:19.1 | the looks maxer, clavicular, who we'll be talking about a lot today, and it says, quote, |
| 1:25.1 | clavicular was mid-gester gooning when a group of foids came and spiked |
| 1:28.7 | as cortisol levels. Is ignoring the foids while munting and monging moids more useful than |
| 1:33.7 | SMV Chad fishing in the club? Yeah, but then I wanted to pair that with another tweet. Would you |
| 1:40.5 | read this one? She ate contaminated food at the mother buffet and had explosive slayeria. |
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