Is Being a Girlfriend Embarrassing Now?

If this moved you, consider subscribing to support my independent work. There’s no institution behind this, just me, writing my heart out and trying to make sense of the world with you. We’re building something thoughtful, bold, and deeply human. I’d love for you to be part of it. 💌The Cut recently published an essay that ricocheted across group chats, and if you haven’t read it, here’s the gist: gen z women are paying rent for boyfriends who don’t work. Young women are running the household, managing the emotional labor, and functionally becoming a second mother to grown men who call themselves “partners.” While the internet overflows with “stay-at-home girlfriend” content, young women self-pedestalizing their lifestyle of bottomless matcha and pilates, bankrolled by a rich boyfriend, there’s a quieter trend nobody seems eager to talk about: men coasting off their girlfriend’s salary and domestic labor while she works herself to the bone.The piece is being framed as an indictment of…