New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has waded into the cultural conversation around masculinity and relationships, telling women who find their boyfriends embarrassing to 'probably get a new boyfriend' whilst firmly rejecting the notion that women bear responsibility for solving the so-called male loneliness epidemic.
Appearing on Liz Plank's 'Boy Problems' podcast on Tuesday, the 34-year-old progressive politician responded to a recent Vogue article examining whether straight women now feel embarrassed to have boyfriends. Plank explained that women interviewed for the piece suggested having a boyfriend felt 'almost Republican', with fears their partners might publicly humiliate them.
