It all began when Rishi Sunak’s social media accounts posted a picture of the chancellor wearing a grey hoodie in his home study, as he urged everyone to #StayHomeSaveLives.
Replies flooded in: “What is it about this man? Absolute hunk”; “Who needs PornHub Premium when you’ve got this level of content for free?”; “Great thirst trap chief.”
People on the internet find Sunak hot, which is hardly surprising: he is a good-looking man in a powerful position, feeding the nation endless cash in the middle of a frightening pandemic.
But it got very weird when a number of notable journalists, most of whom are white women, started questioning their attraction to Rishi by posting long Twitter threads and penning entire essays on the matter. Flora Gill, the daughter of Amber Rudd, the former home secretary, wrote an article about her fascination in GQ. Days later, an almost identical article appeared in Vogue, titled “Admit It: You Fancy Rishi Sunak” as though finding this man attractive should somehow be considered a “dirty little secret”. The fact these writers went to such lengths to confess their uncontrollable and “unexpected” desire for the chancellor is at best odd; at worst, it’s rooted in sexual racism.
Replies flooded in: “What is it about this man? Absolute hunk”; “Who needs PornHub Premium when you’ve got this level of content for free?”; “Great thirst trap chief.”
People on the internet find Sunak hot, which is hardly surprising: he is a good-looking man in a powerful position, feeding the nation endless cash in the middle of a frightening pandemic.
But it got very weird when a number of notable journalists, most of whom are white women, started questioning their attraction to Rishi by posting long Twitter threads and penning entire essays on the matter. Flora Gill, the daughter of Amber Rudd, the former home secretary, wrote an article about her fascination in GQ. Days later, an almost identical article appeared in Vogue, titled “Admit It: You Fancy Rishi Sunak” as though finding this man attractive should somehow be considered a “dirty little secret”. The fact these writers went to such lengths to confess their uncontrollable and “unexpected” desire for the chancellor is at best odd; at worst, it’s rooted in sexual racism.
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