We all know what that is. We all have our favorite examples. Perhaps, like many people, yours is Bruce Springsteen. Its new look feels like Tilda Swinton trapped in a tanning bed.
It is the Unigender Unity Party. It's more than just the occasional lesbian joke aimed at older male celebrities. It's about the strange way in which our nation's prominent elites seem to be converging on a neutral public image. It appears that, through certain common signals, they are moving towards transcending secondary, and perhaps even primary, gender differences.
Cubans are on a rapid trajectory to laughing stock status. But if he fights back, he will have to choose between binding himself more tightly to his fellow Unitards or distancing himself from the team in some way – in the age of digital tribalization. It's always a risky decision.
And as the internet discovered this week, Mark Cuban claimed to be the latest victim.
No longer the familiar Alpha Chad representing Wall Street on “Shark Tank,” Cuban is aligning himself with his emergence as a “progressive” upper echelon spokesperson, consciously or otherwise. Regardless, it has a sleek and smooth style. Masters of Elenverse animatronic presentation.
But it's the glasses that complete the picture, and they're the ones that inspired a million memes. Searching cuban glasses X returns an endless scroll of mentions, who wore them, and general japes. This is a chorus of ridicule, but as of this writing, Cuban has refused to respond to it, believing it's because he's not in the wind. trendy.
Taking advantage of this creepy mutation, Elon Musk himself started swinging during his MAGA Road campaign. “Mark Cuban and Rachel Maddow are the same person,” he joked. Repost visual evidence. “Don't believe conspiracy theorists who claim otherwise!”
Cubans are on a rapid trajectory to laughing stock status. But if he fights back, he will have to choose between binding himself more tightly to his fellow Unitards or distancing himself from the team in some way – in the age of digital tribalization. It's always a risky decision.
Either you're in or you're out of it—that seems to be the reality of a gendered party that is no longer resolved by mere ideological unity. To win a spot on screen or stage, you need to be remade in your image. Indeed, the final steps toward full posthumanity are yet to emerge. The choice is yours, Cuban. you have to respond. Does your soul belong to the bespectacled Borg? Or do you dare deny it?
