Ryan Benk
@ryanbenk.bsky.social
Producer/reporter for NPR's Weekend Edition. Horror, punk, pop-punk or anything by Sturgill Simpson. Lift heavy things. Cats are rad. SAGAFTRA. DC is a real place.
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I mean this is a joking bugaboo of mine. No harm meant. People are free to use whatever words they want, but on my experience, words like "satchel" are kinda like labeling a body wash or asswipes something like XTREME CLEAN FOR MEN, or whatever.
Like it's fine. You can be a man and have a purse.
Like it's fine. You can be a man and have a purse.
November 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
I mean this is a joking bugaboo of mine. No harm meant. People are free to use whatever words they want, but on my experience, words like "satchel" are kinda like labeling a body wash or asswipes something like XTREME CLEAN FOR MEN, or whatever.
Like it's fine. You can be a man and have a purse.
Like it's fine. You can be a man and have a purse.
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everything is "performative" because we're in a social media panopticon where everything becomes free content for our tech overlords so they can be rich and we can get a strangely unfulfilling but addictive form of attention
November 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM
everything is "performative" because we're in a social media panopticon where everything becomes free content for our tech overlords so they can be rich and we can get a strangely unfulfilling but addictive form of attention