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right, so a couple of days ago on the show, I said that it felt like a memo had been sent out to all of the feminist mouthpieces in the feminist machine. The young women are getting too happy. They're in love with men. They're getting married. They're consuming too much ballerina farm. Brett Cooper, Content they're buying the ev magazine milkmaid dresses. We have to do something. We have to stop that and make them lean in. Thank you, Sheryl Sandberg. And suddenly, again, it's literally just happened over the course of like three days. But suddenly, the most insufferable people that I could think of in the media were comparing marriage to slavery, saying, we gotta pull out the whips. They were celebrating hookup culture, which in 2026 feels like so 2016, in my mind, they were saying on the View that it is reckless to encourage women to have children. But apparently that little memo from last week, it was just not taking it far enough because it seems like they don't wanna just stop with preventing women from getting married and having children, but they want to actively blow up the already happy marriages that are in existence. And so now, a week later, now my timeline is full of people celebrating infidelity all in the name obviously, of feminism and empowerment. Now, the cherry on top of this entire story has been the real life example of this through the viral, rumored, alleged affair between Diana Rossini, who is a NFL reporter, and head coach Mike Vrabel. Just diving into the next level of this memo Again, they saw whatever statistics were going around last week of, like, women are choosing tradwife over girl boss, which, by the way, those are, like, two very distinct buckets. Maybe I should do a whole, like, newsletter on that. I felt like that survey was just a little bit weird, but still, maybe the feminists saw it and they went, oh, no. Oh, no, we have to do something. And so the Cut published an article this week titled, the Secret to a Great Marriage Crushes on other people. Now, first of all, I'm like, this is not the time in our culture to release this article because, like, have you people learned nothing from the secret? Wives of Mormon wives sleeping around with other people, opening up your marriage crushes. I mean, not just as you wives and Mormon wives. Lindy west, what we talked about a couple of weeks ago, her. Her husband, her husband's other wife. It is a mess, and nobody's happy. Anyway, sorry, had to. Moving on from that. You might see this article. You might think, okay, Brett, this is some clicky headline. They do this all the time. You might think that maybe the author is talking about the fact that, you know, humans will always notice the attractiveness of other humans. Maybe they are talking about, you know, finding a celebrity attractive. You know, celebrity crushes, whatever it is. No, no, it is none of those things. It is having crushes on real people in your real life, like your coworkers while you are married. Just listen. So the author, who is a married woman with children, said this. She said, at my last job, I had a crush on a coworker named Phil, whose name has been changed so as not to embarrass him or more importantly, myself. Honey, you are already embarrassing yourself by writing this article. Phil looks like a swarthier Jake Gyllenhaal. And the first time he spoke to me, I remember being genuinely confused as to how this person had ended up in print media, since he was too attractive to know what the phrase nutgraph meant. I did not and do not know Phil well. By the time we stopped working together, we had exchanged maybe 40 words in total, the vast majority of which were about Steely Dan. But my husband, to whom I had been married to for almost 10 years, heard about him every once in a while. Occasionally, when I got home from work, he'd ask if my office crush was in that day. Once I was putting on some lip tint and mascara before a zoom meeting, and he asked if it was because Phil was on the call. He wasn't, but I would be lying if I said I didn't Spend an extra few seconds on my hair on days when I knew he was going to be in the office. I'm sorry. This is so, so weird. Like, I don't know what kind of weird lib marriage you are part of. Like, this is openly admitting to emotionally cheating on your spouse. This is not when you lean into it and write an entire article about it and joke about it with your husband. No, this is when you make the choice with yourself to respect your marriage, to use your moral compass, which I hope that you have. This woman might not. We'll get into that. But to know that you need to shut that thought down out of the respect and love you have for your husband and the commitment, more importantly, that you have made to each other. It's when, love him or hate him, you should adopt the Pence policy. Now, if you don't know this, Mike Pence has a rule that he does not dine alone with a woman who is not his wife. He will not attend events with alcohol without his wife. Maybe some of the women we're gonna be talking about today, the other women in this article should try that. This author continues because again, remember guys, this is apparently the key to lasting love. So listen up. She writes, the whole point of having a crush is that it causes a little friction of nervous energy, one that tends to dissipate when you are in a long term relationship. K. There has to be another way to spice things up. Have you heard of date night? Have you heard of doing something a little fun and fancy for your husband? That's a great idea that does not involve having crushes on other people. Anyway, sorry, getting ahead of myself. She puts a quote in here. A crush while you're married is like a sweet little snack that gets you through the 4pm slump. My friend Cara told me, like all of the horny monogamous people refer to in this piece. Cara asked to use a pseudonym. She's been married for four years and she has a crush on a New York Times critic whom she's met a few times through friends. It is harmless and invigorating and reminds you you're alive and kicking and yearning and thinking her husband doesn't mind, as is the case in my relationship, and it serves as fodder for in couple jokes. It's harmless and invigorating. So thinking about being attracted to fantasizing, that's what having a crush is. Fantasizing about somebody who is other than your husband. That's harmless. No, actually that's very harmful to you and him and your relationship again. There has got to be another way to get you through the 4pm slump. How you know that you are still invigorated and yearning and thinking is by going on a date with your husband. Do you want me to pay? Do you want me to get you a gift card? Send you out to a nice Italian restaurant with a little candle in the center and a glass of wine? I will happily do that if it keeps you from cheating on your husband. Anyway, she goes on, she continues to share more and more women in her life that she's met who have various crushes on friends, baristas at the coffee shop that they go to every morning, coworkers. And then she concludes the article by suggesting that her female readers, women in monogamous, monogamous marriages like herself, have these crushes on rotation like an NBA roster and just wait. I don't want to get ahead of myself, but the roster jokes, the sports commentary will come back. It will be relevant in the next 10 minutes. You will see. So this is her conclusion. I call bullshit on all of this. This will never end well. It is not harmless. It is the wrong kind of invigorating. This is nothing to aspire to. But I do want to say we should not be surprised about this advice when we consider who the author of this article is. Her name is E.J. dixon. Now if that name rings the bell, it's probably because she wrote a now infamous hit piece on Candace, also for the cut, which resulted obviously in Candace ripping her a new one. And bringing up EJ's past where she once wrote an article advocating for child sex robots to help cure pedophilia. Listen to that again. Using child sex robots child to help pedophiles because rather than ostracizing them from society, putting them behind bars, we should give them something to simulate having sex with because it's just a mental condition that we should help them with, is what she's promoting in this Washington Post article. This woman, E.J. dixon, is a mother. She is trying to give marriage advice. So yeah, I don't think so. Based on your past, I will not be taking any of your advice. I also just, all that aside, won't be taking your advice because it is just so ridiculous. But obviously other people have other people are in line with what she's saying. And in another viral clip this week, again, it was like a memo went out. Comedian Nikki Glaser went on Call Her Daddy with Alex Cooper and she said that she and her boyfriend actually take these crushes to Another level. But in this case, it's because she wants to hear about her boyfriend and other women. So let's just walk through this whole interaction.
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Like, I would always ask him about, like, past hookups and girlfriends and how they got together. Like, I always, like, the beginning. Like, how did you guys first know you liked each other? Like, I love that. Like, our legs were touching under a table and neither of us moved our leg or so, like, stuff like that. I'd be like, so, like, I don't know, it would make me, like, horny to, like, think about him doing that with other girls. And then I would. So I'd ask about all of his, like, girlfriends or anyone he had hooked up with, like, all the details about it. And it would really be, like, a foreplay for me. Like, I would get, like, revved up talking about it. And then it reached a point where he was out of stories. Like, he had gone through all of them. And I was like. And that. It's almost like he was telling the same ones. And I was like, I know this one. So it wasn't as exciting anymore because I was getting the same stuff. So I was like, I know this is. I had never heard of anything like this. I felt so weird. But I was like, I think I need you to, like, get some more stories.
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I think I need you to go get more stories. Like, we just have to pause there. The top comment, by the way, under this video is this guy saying, I pray for a dumb bitch like this every single day. And that comment is going to be even more relevant and ironic in just a few minutes. When you see how she rationalizes this TL Dr. Empowerment, it's like, no, this is not helping women in the slightest. You are actually just helping men. But you are twisting your mind to claim that this is empowerment. Anyway, this is already weird, as you saw. Like, she gets revved up hearing about her boyfriend and other women. So much so that she now is encouraging him to go out and get more action so that she can hear about it. So that brings us to the next point. Just watch.
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I. I need you to, like, go out there and just do. Just have a flirty moment with someone. Like, anything where I can feel like maybe it's my competitive nature of, like, I want a guy who other girls want. Like, I. I like something that is like, you know, you want a handbag that other girls are like, oh, my God, I'm dying to get that. I was like, you know what? If you do it and I don't like it Because I don't know how I'll feel. Like, I've never done this before. So I don't know how I'll feel if my boyfriend. You're my first boyfriend ever. And so how will I feel if you have a flirty moment with another girl? So just, like, try it and if I don't like it, we can stop and just don't. Just don't do, like, don't kiss her. But, like, see if you, like, if you could, like, if you get to a place where you, like, maybe you even go, I can't. I have a girlfriend. Like, something like that, but I don't make her feel bad about it.
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Like, I just don't even know what to say. Like, I can't even. Is the best way to respond to this. Like, these people are so weird. They are so. Like, we have big booby Brian Gnome and his bimbos. We have people fantasizing about cheating. It's just like, freaks. Freaks all around us. And again, the person who is benefiting in this situation is the man. Like, her. Look, let's pull up a photo of her boyfriend. This guy is like, I just landed the jackpot. I get to have a rich, successful girlfriend, and then I get to go flirt with whoever I want. I mean, it's just. It's so wild. But, guys, as I said, it's not all. Because this is not just weird, kinky dysfunction. No, it's because I. Obviously, she's a feminist. This is feminism in action.
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But then it's like, showing their value, that they are valued by other women. Because I respect women and women's opinions. I do. I want my boyfriend to fuck other women because I just love women so much. I'm such a feminist. Hold on.
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Wow, thank you. Just such. What a truth bomb from Alex Cooper. Like, let's just, like, cut the copy. You're like, I get it. They're making jokes, sort of. But also, it's not really a joke. And I was about to say, like, you cannot tie this into feminism. This is not feminism. But honestly, you kind of can't. Like, this is the perfect example of this, because at its core, modern feminism, whatever the fifth wave, sixth wave we're in now in 2026, but this, modern feminism, it results in hurting women and in hurting men. And it is hell bent on destroying marriage and family because they believe it is oppressive. It is this arm of the patriarchy. Like Leslie Jones said in our previous episode, that we were talking about, it is literal slavery that women have to escape. So, yeah, maybe this kind of dysfunction actually is feminism. Everything is feminism and nothing is feminism in 2026 is what I've come to understand. But it is certainly not committing to or respecting your partner. It is also certainly not healthy or mentally stable, I would say, based on my worldview, but maybe that's just me. Maybe I'm the crazy one. Anyway, if I had to guess, though, I would say that the women in these stories, they probably treat their dogs better than their husbands. And if you want to treat your dogs better, then you need rough greens. So my good friends over at Ruffed Greens make supplements designed to help fill the nutritional gaps that most dogs have. Now, while we obviously have been fans of their Vita Smart Greens powder, if you know, you know, our dogs have been devouring their new Rough Chews, which are essentially like chewable vitamins, but for dogs, they are super easy to give. They're basically like a treat. That's what our dogs think they are. And they are packed with things like probiotics, omega oils, digestive enzymes, and nutrients from fruits and vegetables to help support your dog's overall health. 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And this is why we love sundaes for dogs. Because starting 10 years ago, after we had a cancer scare with my old Great Pyrenees ollie, my mom and I switched all all of our dogs to a low carb raw diet. But we literally had to make it ourselves. Like think a massive meat Grinder in my mom's kitchen. We sourced the meat, we ground it and then we had to find ways to store it in our tiny LA house, our tiny freezer. It was messy, it was gross, but it was worth it. So now fast forward many years. Alex and I have a Saint Bernard with allergies and chronic ear infections and yeast infections. And we also have tried literally about every frozen raw food on the market. And with how much she eats and how clean of a diet she needs storing and handling, all of the food was so hard. But we didn't wanna compromise and just go put her on some kibble. Which is why we found and love sundaes for dogs and their air dry. 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We help people customize and save on car insurance with Liberty Mutual. Together. We're married. Me to a human, him to a bird. Yeah, the bird looks out of your league anyways. Only pay for what you need@libertymutual.com Liberty, Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Back to not committing to or respecting your partner. The same thing goes for Diana Rossini and Mike Rabel. So if you don't know Diana Rossini, she is an NFL sideline reporter. Mike Rabel is the head coach for the New England Patriots. So if you have not heard this story, if you have not been on Rossini Rabel TikTok X, I will fill you in. TLDR they are taking the cuts advice way too far. So on Tuesday, Page Six leaked photos of the NFL reporter and the New England Patriots head coach, who are both married, by the way. They are both married, hugging and holding hands, interlocking hands at an exclusive adult only resort in Sedona, Arizona. Now, I just want to paint the scene for you. If you guys don't know what Sedona, Arizona is, it is a mountain town in Arizona. It has all of these alleged like energy vortexes. You go for healing. It's very romantic. One of my best friends got married there. The sunsets are striking. Like this is not like a casual place where you are running into somebody. This is where you go for romance and energy. And that's important to know when you're talking about this story. Anyway, now both of these individuals, again who are both married, have come out to say, even though we were at this very romantic place at this adult only romantic resort and we were holding hands and we were hugging, we were in the hot tub together. Nothing is going on. So both Rossini and Vrabel insist that they were there with friends. They say that they simply weren't visible in the pictures. Yeah, maybe they were in a different area code, I don't know. Anyway, a source close to Rossini says that she was staying at the hotel during a hiking trip with two female friends. One of Rabel's friends told Page Six that they and the coach drove up to Sedona for the day with another pal and that they all drove back to their hotel some two hours away after hanging out with Rossini and her gang. First of all, I might add, I don't think that makes the story any better. Like why are you without your spouse driving two hours from your hotel? Apparently he was in Arizona, in Phoenix or I think in Phoenix scouting asu. It is already a red flag. It is not made any better that you went out of your way. You drove two hours to go swimming with a colleague, a female colleague. Your sideline. That does not help. Three other eyewitnesses told us that they did not see anybody else with Vrabel and Rossini. When asked if the Pats were coach visited the hotel with a group of friends, one eyewitness said no, he was with a girl. And our sequence of photographs taken at various points during the day show only Vrabel and Rossini. Now here are the photos at long last. So ladies and gentlemen, just take a look at these photos. You tell me, let me know Sound off in the comments if you would be comfortable with your spouse interlocking fingers having an interlocking finger moment with another person who they are not married to, who is not you in front of a beautiful striking Arizona sunset at an adult's only resort while you were not there. Yeah, could not be me. Red flag Immediate. Utterly glaring. Now that is my response. But hey, again, maybe I'm the crazy one. I bet E.J. dixon from the Cut is absolutely loving this. I bet Nikki Glaser is already sending her boyfriend off to Sedona, hoping that he too gets spotted with Diana because she needs something to rev up her engine. Sorry, had to. All jokes aside for people who have been following Diana Rossini who are big football fans, fans of the NFL, apparently this is not surprising in the slightest. Now as you Sports Brett put on my Sports Brett hat, she only comes out to play every once in a while. I am not a huge NFL fan. I get all my information from Alex. But he said that for people who have followed this story, they are not surprised because back in 2015 when she was still working for ESPN, she apparently broke several huge stories about the Washington Redskins. And at the time, the then wife of the Redskins general manager released a series of tweets alleging that the only reason why Rossini got the scoop and released those stories was because she was sleeping with her husband. So in one instance, Diana posted this scoop and the wife replied, I'm pretty sure this info is coming from my husband to his new side chick Diana. It's confirmed. And then a week later she tweets, Diana, ESPN, please tell us how many BJ's you had to give to get this story. And did they laugh at you before or after. I mean, this wife is a stone cold killer. I do not falter in the slightest now. Anyway, this wife, she later deleted her Twitter. She issued an apology, but an important thing to note is she did not say that what she had said was untrue. She simply apologized for distracting from the game and from the team and she was going to be putting away her phone. But this story has since followed Diana and interestingly, since then, since 2015, she has had nothing really nice to say about her husband. In fact, she has gone out of her way to mock him and make fun of him. Just like think a la Michelle Obama, but NFL style. Just watch. He's getting married to a beautiful actress. I'm married to someone average.
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I don't post a lot about him.
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I'm married to somebody average is what she is saying now. All of this was in the context of talking about Aaron Rodgers, who at the time was engaged to actress Shailene Woodley. And he was posting a lot about her and all of the things. And apparently in Diana's mind, the only reason why he was doing that was because his fiance was attractive. Not because he loved her and wanted to post her and share her with the world, but because she was attractive. And because Diana is not married to an attractive man. She just could not relate and could not do that. I'm just absolutely wild. She posted that clip actually on her own X feed, which is brazen. And she said she blames Aaron Rodgers for her potential divorce. I think you got to blame yourself if that comes. Anyway, what's more, she apparently also goes to parties in Miami and does not tell her husband about them.
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I did things in Miami I haven't even told my husband because it's just I had that much fun. Not like that.
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I knew he would. Oh my God. The response. Oh, oh. It's like, wait, I didn't expect we were going to go that far. Like none of us did. The response from that man sitting next to her is the response from the Internet being like, okay, yeah, maybe you don't do that, maybe you don't say that. But apparently that's just who Diana Rossini is now to kind of tie all of this up with a bow. She has also joked on X about needing a boyfriend even though she's married. She's talked about how she and her husband don't text, don't talk, how it's an issue in their marriage. She says that she's Just joking about all of it. But in my mind, that's just disrespecting your husband publicly making a mockery of him. And now here she is, years later, canoodling with Mike Vrabel in Sedona, Arizona. But yeah, sure, sure, she was just on a girl's hiking. Now, I do want to provide the caveat and say I know that I just spent a lot of time talking specifically about Diana Rossini, but that is because she has this track record. That is why the Internet is pulling all of these clips. But Mike Rabel, he is just as at fault. He is also a married man. If tweets come out about him, you know, talking with other women, we will talk about those as well. But they both are at fault. This is disgusting behavior from both of them. But moving on from that, this comment did make me chuckle. Somebody said, if you're a guy and you're upset about your wife having her hair in a ponytail with her fingers interlocked with the hands of an NFL football coach on a rooftop of an extreme intimate, five star adult only resort in Sedona, Arizona, you're simply just insecure. No other comments. Yeah, guys, remember, this is supposed to spice things up. This is the 4pm snack time, pick me up that we all read about in the cut. We should all be very excited for them. Their marriages back at home are gonna be so spiced up. Okay, yeah, well, here's the truth bomb that snack time. Those innocent temptations being promoted in the media, they turn into what wrecks your marriage. But again, maybe that's the memo that went out. Maybe that is actually what they want. Now, to that end, this reminds me of something else that went viral this week. We're just, you know, gonna keep this all going. Earlier this week, Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt, that is Chris Pratt's wife, she posted a harmless reel about Chris Pratt. It was a video of him working on a dollhouse out in their yard. And she said, I don't understand the women who say they don't need their husbands, they don't need a man. I need my husband. Who else would build a dollhouse for our daughters? Now, first of all, I want to say this is true. Like, the world absolutely needs Chris Pratt. We all need Chris Pratt. But also what she's saying is absolutely true. Like, I need Alex. I need my husband. I love him. I also want him. I want him and need him. But some women, as I'm sure you know, completely disagree with that. And they hated her Real. It was so innocent. It was so pure. It was something that. It's just sweet. They were all these comments calling her helpless, saying that she was teaching her daughters bad values and she should be a better mom and show them that she could build a dollhouse for them, that they don't need their father to build a dollhouse. Like, what bad, dangerous values are you talking about? The fact that their mother loves and respects and publicly sh. Their father with adoration, relies on their father. The fact that their father in turn respects and loves her. Oh, my Lord, how dangerous. We gotta put an end to it all. We gotta course correct. I mean, it is just so absurd. But again, it's like, who's surprised based on where our culture has gone? Like, I'm sure these are the same people who cheer on Michelle Obama when she sits on her podcast and rips into Barack, says, thank God I didn't have a son, because then I would have had a mini Barack saying that they, you know, were not in love, that they had such a hard time for years and years on end. I'm sure they snap and applaud when somebody like freaking Jada Pinkett's Smith is also on her podcast saying that Will Smith will never be able to love her the way that she wants to be loved. Talking to Jenna Bush on the Today show saying she's not sure when she will allow Will Smith, her husband, to move back in with her. And people call that empowerment. Protecting your peace. All of the empty, superficial terms, it's so gross. None of it is empowering. None of it is positive. It is unhealthy and disgusting. And all of these stories, all these individuals, they just perfectly sum up everything that is wrong with modern dating culture and modern love and how feminism has metastasized in our society. It grew from something that was genuine. It was about equality within the sexes, of getting that legalized to now. Something that disrupts wholesome and good values, that tramples on family and marriage, that tells women who choose a path different from their path that they're wrong, that actually they're oppressed. I mean, it is so bad. What we saw today is infidelity repackaged as something healthy and resentment and disrespect repackaged as female empowerment. It is nothing to emulate. This is a cancer on our society.
Episode Title: Cheating Is NEVER Ok
Host: Brett Cooper
Date: April 10, 2026
In this episode, Brett Cooper takes a deep dive into the normalization and celebration of infidelity and emotional cheating in modern media and culture. Brett discusses how recent articles, celebrity scandals, and popular podcasts frame cheating, crushes outside marriage, and disrespectful relationship dynamics as empowering, especially for women. She argues that these attitudes are destructive, driven by a distorted feminism, and undermine essential values like commitment, loyalty, and genuine partnership.
Quote [05:10]:
“This is openly admitting to emotionally cheating on your spouse. This is not when you lean into it and write an entire article about it and joke about it with your husband.”
— Brett Cooper
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“Thinking about being attracted to, fantasizing—that’s what having a crush is—about somebody who is other than your husband. That’s harmless? No, actually, that’s very harmful.”
— Brett Cooper
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“I think I need you to go get more stories.”
— Nikki Glaser
Quote [10:14]:
“I just don’t even know what to say… these people are so weird. We have people fantasizing about cheating. It’s just like, freaks. Freaks all around us.”
— Brett Cooper
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“Red flag. Immediate. Utterly glaring. Now that is my response. But hey, again, maybe I’m the crazy one.”
— Brett Cooper
Quote [21:15]:
“If you’re a guy and you’re upset about your wife… interlocking fingers with the hands of an NFL football coach at an intimate, five star adult only resort… you’re simply just insecure. No other comments.”
— Online comment, relayed by Brett
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“‘What bad, dangerous values are you talking about? The fact that their mother loves and respects and publicly shows their father with adoration, relies on their father…’”
— Brett Cooper
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“What we saw today is infidelity repackaged as something healthy and resentment and disrespect repackaged as female empowerment. It is nothing to emulate. This is a cancer on our society.”
— Brett Cooper
Brett Cooper’s style throughout the episode is highly opinionated, conversational, and sarcastic, with moments of humor meant to highlight the perceived absurdity of modern “empowerment” narratives. She weaves cultural criticism with pop culture references and viral stories, speaking directly to her audience’s likely shared values of commitment and respect in relationships.