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Do Gen Z Women Have Any Role Models?

Is it a "good" thing to see Alex Cooper as a potential role model, or ... is it a great thing?

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Ted Bauer
May 18, 2025
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I am not a woman, not Gen Z, and don’t listen to a ton of Alex Cooper — some, but not much. So I’m theoretically the wrong person to even try and discuss this. I was a fan of her old “complacency sex” argument, not as much a fan of how some of her guests ultimately lower the bar for men, and I always think it’s funny how we don’t connect her success to Hawk Tuah. Literally the first thing Cooper was famous for was “Gluck Gluck,” which was a specific approach to giving head. How is that any different, really, than Hawk Tuah, minus the meme coin rugpull?

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If you want to cut this down to a very basic level, Cooper is a hot blond woman who had a bunch of sexual experiences (she is now married) and got other women to talk about their sexual experiences, so you get a big audience from horndog men and women trying to see if their experiences are normal, whether they’re hot and blond and live in NYC or not. That’s your baseline on Cooper, methinks.

However, I have heard the argument many times that she is helping to regress young women. Here is one video that makes such an argument:

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