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What Does Our Obsession With “Hawk Tuah” Say About Us?

Porn + nothing really that good.

Ted Bauer
5 min readJun 28, 2024

If you’re unfamiliar with “Hawk Tuah,” and/or “Hock Too-Ah,” here’s the original clip:

Basically, this girl — whose name is apparently Haley, and despite differing media reports, it seems she is a preschool teacher outside of Nashville — was leaving a bar in Nash with her friend. This street reporter guy, who has a YouTube and TikTok channel, asked her and her friend a series of questions. The girls are drunk. The full interview is 13 minutes and kinda meandering, but this part went viral. The reporter (“reporter”) says: “What’s one move you can do in bed that makes him go crazy?”

The girl here says: “You gotta give him that HAWK (makes spitting sound) TUAH (emphasis) and spit on that thing.”

I cannot wait until she gets on The Today Show and Savannah has to ask, “So, you mean the penis, right?” Indeed, that is what she means.

This has gone insanely viral and now apparently this young woman has a talent agent and is selling hats +…

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Ted Bauer
Ted Bauer

Written by Ted Bauer

I write about a lot of different topics, from work to masculinity to relationships and social dynamics, I.e. modern friendship. Pleasure to be here.

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