Against Heteropessimism
Against HeteropessimismAccounting for the nature of straight women’s desire is hard. Our clients, by residing at a remote wilderness work camp with a bevy of male models, would learn to act normal no matter what species of jaw and brow and forearm confronted them. After, these women would return to their everyday lives immunized against the possibility of spilt coffees, logorrhea, elaborate pratfalls, and other farcical hazards.
- ▪Against HeteropessimismAccounting for the nature of straight women’s desire is hard.
- ▪Our clients, by residing at a remote wilderness work camp with a bevy of male models, would learn to act normal no matter what species of jaw and brow and forearm confronted them.
- ▪After, these women would return to their everyday lives immunized against the possibility of spilt coffees, logorrhea, elaborate pratfalls, and other farcical hazards.
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| Original publisher | The Bulwark |
| Canonical URL | https://www.thebulwark.com/p/against-heteropessimism-phoebe-maltz-bovy-last-straight-woman-review |
| Publication time | Fri, 24 Jul 2026 07:24:07 GMT |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-24T07:30:55.080Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-24T07:30:55.080Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | None |
| Cluster logic | Not yet clustered, or no peer story found in the clustering window. |
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| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Against HeteropessimismAccounting for the nature of straight women’s desire is hard. What to do about it?Clare Coffey24 July(Image: Penguin Random House)The Last Straight WomanOn Desiring Menby Phoebe Maltz BovySignal, 288 pp., $26ONCE, UPON THE ARRIVAL of an unusually handsome man in town and all the ensuing flustrations, I proposed a business idea to my friend: We would found a residential program for women who wanted to learn to cope with handsome men. Our clients, by residing at a remote wilderness work camp with a bevy of male models, would learn to act normal no matter what species of jaw and brow and forearm confronted them.
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