Laddishness is depressive indolence, not genuine lasciviousness

Evidence

The interpellated subject of the Lad magazine is the supposed “real person” (=slavering, sloppy andro-Id) beneath the pretence of social politesse. The Lad magazine addresses this “authentic id” with the leering superegoic injunction to enjoy. “Go on, admit it, you don’t want to be bothered to cook, all you want is a fishfinger sandwich… Go on, admit it, you don’t want to be bothered to talk to a woman, have a wank instead…” The fact that this reduction is possible means that lads implicitly accept the Lacanian notion that phallic jouissance involves masturbation with a “real” partner. It also indicates that laddishness is more defined by a propensity towards depressive indolence than it is by any lasciviousness. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1001

Categorization

• SHARE: For a friend into pop culture criticism and Lacanian media theory — the reading of Lad culture as short-circuited desire rather than real libido is exactly the kind of point they’d run with.
• XREF: connects to: Laddism is defined by depressive indolence and short-circuited desire, not lasciviousness. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1001