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Joe Rogan is Just Gwenyth Paltrow for Men
Elk poop is the new Goop
It’s important to compartmentalize the different levels of crazy that currently pervade the pop culture zeitgeist. Yesterday I saw a post on Twitter that said Joe Rogan is basically Gwenyth Paltrow for dude bros, and I about lost it. Never has a more true statement ever been made.
Just as Gwenyth Paltrow shamelessly markets pseudoscience and exploits the insecurities of women to shill her overly-expensive self-help garbage, Joe Rogan uses his platform to sell things like Fleshlights and boner pills to incels, while pretending to be enlightened and open-minded, even as he promotes things like Ivermectin and blames cancel culture for scientists not being honest about Covid-19.
If you’re young and healthy, you don’t gotta worry about covid, bro! Just flex your muscles for three days straight until all the veins stand out in your forehead like a roadmap to Boner World. And also have a million dollars.
Think about it. Joe Rogan is essentially the most dude of all dude bros. He’s a short, red-faced, overly-muscled tantrum of a man, who made a name for himself by watching men beat each other to a pulp in the octagon…
