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'Literature's original fboy'

Also: open relationships can be a woman's idea, romantasy as a fix for sexless marriages, Vanity Fair's Hollywood issue features only men (they're cute, but still!), and more in the weekend roundup.

Tracy Clark-Flory

Nov 23

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Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff in the “Wuthering Heights” trailer. Still: YouTube

Happy Sunday! Welcome to the link roundup.

Here’s Olivia Petter on Heathcliff as “literature’s original fuck boy.” A bit of an understatement to call him a fuck boy, I think! But I’m kind of fascinated by the way she places the appeal of his toxicity within the context of the dire (ahem) state of dating:

Brooding, handsome, and troubled beyond repair, he epitomizes everything straight women are supposed to run from and yet somehow run towards. Or at least, I do. … [W]hen dating feels so relentlessly and desperately dire, can you blame the toxic girlies for occasionally wanting something a little spicier? If not to inject a little energy into our dating pursuits, then to give us something a little more compelling to talk about in the group chat?

Jeann Garnett, now famous for that Paris Review “scenes from an open marriage” essay and New York Times heteropessimism essay, just dropped a banger on open marriage and Lily Allen’s West End Girl. She asks: “Is it possible that we default to a view of straight open marriage as a husband’s imposition on a passive wife in part because we are, as a culture, still threatened by a mother’s extramarital desire?”...