HeyJaredWednesday With Woody
Welcome to your midweek moment to pause, laugh, reflect, and reset. Each Wednesday, Woody dives into pop culture, identity, and the wild ride of being human with humour, heart, and the occasional hot take.
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I Love a Red Flag (opens the original)
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Personally, I love a red flag. Racist? Homophobic? Generally committed to being a nightmare? Thank you for the signage. At 30-something years old, I simply do not have six months to discover you’re an a**. This week on Wednesday with Woody , I’m wondering when accepting people for who they are became convincing them to be somebody else. Do I really need to change your mind, or can I just believe the warning and take my good personality elsewhere? Maybe some red flags aren’t invitations to debate
DID EVERYONE GET THE GAY STARTER PACK EXCEPT ME? (opens the original)
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I heard a gay man say he sometimes feels stranded in the middle: too gay for straight people, but somehow not gay enough for the gays. He misses the references, doesn’t recognise himself in the stereotypes and feels like everybody received a gay starter pack except him. I laughed. Then I remembered an acquaintance once telling Ryan and me that we were “too boring for the gays”. Rude. Also… strangely revealing. This week on Wednesday with Woody , I’m asking what happens when coming out gets you t
Is the Male Body Becoming the New Beauty Battleground? | Looksmaxxing, Gym Culture & Male Beauty Standards (opens the original)
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I found out what a canthal tilt is this week, and I really wish I hadn’t. Because I was perfectly happy with my eyes before someone on the internet informed me there was an angle involved. And obviously I went looking. Bad idea. I ended up somewhere between looksmaxxing, bodybuilding, skincare, hair transplants and men having “protocols” for things we used to just call moisturising. And somewhere in there I started wondering when exactly looking good became this much... work. Because I’m not sta
WHO SHOWED US WHAT OUR LIVES COULD BECOME? (opens the original)
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I watched the trailer for Club Kid, a new film concerning a gay party promoter whose life is turned upside down when the son he never knew he had suddenly turns up. I watched it and thought to myself That sounds nice, then carried on scrolling. In a strange way, that’s exactly how ordinary it seemed. This week on Wednesday with Woody , I’m thinking about the people who showed us what our lives could turn out to be. The AIDS crisis didn’t merely result in a huge number of gay men, together with t
WHAT DOES BEING A BOTTOM HAVE TO DO WITH BEING A MAN? (opens the original)
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I saw a HYROX athlete casually call himself a power bottom in a sponsored Instagram post and, naturally, I had questions. Not about the porridge. About why those two things together caught my attention at all. This week on Wednesday with Woody , I’m wondering what being a bottom has to do with being a man. Somewhere along the way, we decided bottom meant submissive, submissive meant feminine, and feminine meant… less masculine. But none of those things actually mean the same thing. So why do we
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