Episode 593 - There's Nothing Wrong With Wanting Men (w/ Magdalene J. Taylor)
Bad Faith
Bad Faith
4.5 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2026
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Senior editor at Playboy, Magdalene J. Taylor, returns to Bad Faith to discuss her viral (and somewhat infamous) New York Times essay, "There's Nothing Wrong With Wanting Men." Responding to a trend toward "hetero-pessimism," or a cynical feeling that heterosexual relationships are beyond repair due largely to something 'wrong' with men, she offers a counter argument: There's never been a better time to be straight. Reasonable minds can disagree. You can read her opinion piece here: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/opinion/heteropessimism-straight-dating-love.html
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| 0:11.0 | I'm All right, Faithful, we are back with another episode of Bad Faithful. |
| 0:37.8 | We are back with another episode of Bad Faith podcast. |
| 0:41.5 | We have returning within the last six months because she's writing articles so hot, we can't |
| 0:49.2 | not opine. |
| 0:52.0 | Madeline Taylor, she is a writer and sex cultural critic at Playboy. |
| 0:58.0 | She's a senior editor there. |
| 1:00.0 | She has just set the internet aflame with her viral New York Times take. |
| 1:05.0 | There's nothing wrong with wanting men. |
| 1:09.0 | Welcome back to the pod. |
| 1:13.0 | Thank you so much for having me again. |
| 1:14.3 | All right. |
| 1:26.0 | So this got a lot of flack, in part because it just, the timing of it was a little bit less than ideal coming out during Pride Month and initially being titled something along the lines of like it's okay to be straight. |
| 1:28.3 | Yeah, something like that. |
| 1:31.2 | I will say, okay, it came out the day before Pride Month also. |
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