Naturally, Kelce is risking his life by… playing American football, while Swift’s vast album collection—which has influenced female conversations globally—is insignificant by comparison. Naturally, Anushka Sharma and Sharmila Tagore were held responsible for their husbands’ subpar performances on the field, facing relentless online attacks—even from Tagore’s own father—for being “distracting.” However, WAGs like Beckham, accustomed to media dismissal as shallow gold-diggers, endured the criticism and leveraged the spotlight to develop personal brands well before the influencer era. To such an extent that a 2009 survey revealed 60 percent of UK women aged 21 to 25 wanted to become WAGs. Presumably, having a boyfriend wasn’t embarrassing back then. We now live in a post-Greta-Gerwig-Barbie era where insecure men are seen as icky. In their place have emerged men like Mamdani, along with actors Riz Ahmed and George Clooney, who never pass up a chance to gush publicly over their wives. Tina Fey, while hosting the 2015 Golden Globes, said: “Amal is a human rights lawyer who worked on the Enron case, advised Kofi Annan on Syria, and was appointed to a three-person commission investigating war rules violations in the Gaza Strip.” Tonight, her husband is receiving a lifetime achievement award.
