What 'The Age of the Twink' Actually Means
Are scrawny guys suddenly “in”? Or are straight men just, finally, getting openly objectified like women and gay men long have been?
The , “Welcome to the Age of the Twink,” that Twitter has gleefully torn apart this week is a bit too slight to sustain a full reckoning with the very real questions it raises. In just 600 words for magazine, Nick Haramis asserts that youthful scrawniness characterizes a new class of celebrity male dreamboat, illustrated partly by the rise of actor TimothéeChalamet, the cast of , and the pop singer TroyeSivan. Most provocatively, Haramis uses the term —gay-male slang most earnestly used on hook-up apps and porn sites—to
