Slut-shaming matters because when people are dismissed as sluts, hoes, and thots, they are denied care and compassion as human beings and in a variety of situations, including when they are sexually harassed, sexually assaulted, victimized by image-based sexual abuse ("revenge porn" and "deepfakes"), and need an abortion.
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The Latest on Slut-Shaming + Bodily Autonomy
March 24, 2026
The women's magazine that channels Andrew Tate.
Disclaimer: This article contains explicit feminist content. It is intended for people who have a self. Reader discretion is advised.
The Louis Theroux documentary on “manosphere” influencers is streaming now on Netflix, and I urge you to view it. As Theroux shows, hugely influential content creators are going far beyond the “masculine energy” that Mark Zuckerberg touted to Joe Rogan last year. These influencers push white nationalist, misogynist, homophobic, antisemitic content (“Who pushed feminism? The f---ing Jews. Who pushed homosexuality? The Jews”) as they sell fake financial products to their young male fans.
At its core, the alt-right manosphere promotes a rigid gender hierarchy: men are naturally wired to be hyper-masculine providers and protectors, and women are meant to be submissive, domestically focused, and defined entirely by their roles as wives and mothers.
Meanwhile, the parallel alt-right “womanosphere” repeats the same messages to its own audience. Alongside extreme personalities such as Candace Owens (who says that vaccines are “poison,” Brigitte Macron “is a man,” and “that virtually every societal ill that we are facing today is because of women”), Evie Magazine presents a sexier but no less extreme vision of femininity and masculinity.
Founded in 2019, Evie targets millennial and Gen Z women. It publishes an annual print issue and a daily Substack newsletter. Evie is not a fringe publication. It is a polished media property that attracts 175 million views per month.
Beneath its glossy aesthetic and wellness facade, Evie is a vehicle for the extreme political right: anti-feminist, anti-LGBTQ+, and deeply invested in pushing women into traditional domestic roles. It unapologetically counsels women (and only women) to avoid sex until marriage because premarital sex decreases their “value” and opportunity to marry the man of their dreams.
If this sounds to you like slut-bashing, you have good ears.
I’ve been reading the Evie newsletter every day for the last several months, and what has surprised me the most is the massive amount of sexually explicit writing—generally there are one or two essays each week that read like something from a magazine you might hide if you bought it in public. At the beginning of every spicy article, you’ll find this:
Disclaimer: This article is intended for readers 18 and older. It contains explicit adult content and is intended for married women for educational purposes only. Reader discretion is advised.
I would have thought that graphic content would be considered slutty and off brand by Evie’s content strategists. How has Evie pulled off the trick of enticing readers with graphic sex to its slut-bashing platform?
By presenting a distorted view of sexuality under the guise of confessional service journalism. Here’s what Evie tells its readers:
Wait until you’re married. “Some gifts, some beauty, are only meant to be shared with a single other person. The evidence of this for sex is its two natural ‘consequences’—the bonding of the couple and children.”
Never say no to your husband when he wants sex. “I always say yes when my husband asks for sex… Sex (and dare I say, frequent sex) is a necessary part of marriage. …The responsibility to increase sexual frequency rests with you.”
A woman has an orgasm as a result of hormones being released during intercourse. “You may achieve orgasm as large amounts of oxytocin can be released during your first-time experience.” Also, “The female body is designed to release oxytocin during sex. The woman’s body becomes attached to the man who impregnates her for the sake of the potential child.”
His pleasure is the most important thing. “Focus on turning him on… It grounds you. It gives you control.”
A woman who out-earns her partner is more likely than a woman who doesn’t to fake orgasms. "Financial 'success' in a relationship doesn't always translate into relational ease. It's like buying a flashy designer handbag only to discover the zip is broken. ... We didn't realize that addressing the wage gap would bring about the orgasm gap." Relatedly, “it’s in our biology to want a man who’s more successful.”
Sex is best when you rip out all your pubic hairs. Sugar waxing led to “the most mind-blowing sex of my life…because of the smoothness.”
Are women actually writing this stuff? Are humans writing it? In the Substack content, there are no bylines. The science purportedly propping up these statements is junk. I mean no disrespect to soft-core porn, but this content is worse than awful. It erases women's agency and exploits young women fearful about being alone and unloved.
It gets even worse. Readers attracted to the sexual content stay for the patriarchal, homophobic, transphobic, white-nationalist messages:
Be heterosexual and cisgender. “I identified as a lesbian for a few years in my early twenties. This was a time before transgender ideology really took hold… This, looking back, was a clear social contagion.”
Get pregnant right now. “The window is real. The clock is ticking. And no amount of girl-boss mantras can stop it.”
Don’t use birth control. “There is no good reason for anyone to be on the pill. Put yourself first, and just say no to taking a daily dose of carcinogenic crap.” Relatedly, “My husband got a vasectomy and it ruined my marriage… Once a man makes that permanent decision to cut off his life-giving resource to a woman, that permanence lingers.”
Abortion is a feminist plot that will ruin you. “I realized abortion was wrong, feminism mainly hurts women.” Also, download the Plana app, which is the digital version of a crisis pregnancy center that fails to tell you abortion is an option.
Biologically, men are wired to be providers, protectors, and leaders. Women are not. “They should never be shamed or blamed for the very traits that make them who they are: their strength, their instinct to protect, their drive to provide, and their capacity to lead. … When something heavy needs lifting or a jar won’t budge, hand it over with a smile and say, ‘I love how strong you are.’”
White men have been short-changed, and we need to elevate them. "They are being punished for a legacy of historical privilege they never saw nor benefited from, to help the descendants of the oppressed who never reaped that oppression. … You would have to go pretty far back in history to identify a time when Black men who earned their place would be excluded or unwanted on the grounds that there were ‘too many’ of them, let alone routinely. But it is easy to find that happening to white men now, constantly, openly, and with no recourse."
The grievance politics of the manosphere find a comfortable home in the womanosphere. The intersection of antifeminism and racism is clear.
Evie sells young women a dangerous fantasy that erases their rights to reproductive autonomy and sexual refusal, setting them up for financial dependence, ignorance about their bodies, and elevated risk of exploitation, emotional abuse, and assault. It is particularly insidious because it speaks the language of women’s liberation while mocking women's independence.
All the more reason why those of us concerned about the manosphere must take the womanosphere just as seriously.