Why Is The Bar So Low For Men?

This is a question we should ask out loud more.

Ted Bauer
4 min readSep 16, 2024

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I stole the image for this post from here, if you’re interested in watching the video (it’s good):

Now, also online this past week — the video above is about a year old, so not this past week — Katy Perry went on Call Her Daddy and discussed a bunch of different stuff. Some was actually nuanced, like dating insecure men. But the clip that predictably got the most attention was her saying that, if Orlando Bloom (the father of her kid) unloads the dishwasher, she blows him. Nice. Here’s the clip:

There are no doubt a few things to unpack here, with (1) probably being: “Does Orlando Bloom, a star of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, actively unload his own dishwasher?” A bunch of people were asking that one, and it’s probably a good…

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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.