With Sanity Pads in His Pockets and a Tote Bag Full of Feminist Literature, Aiman Kaiden Knew he was ready to computete.
Last Weekend in London’s Soho Square He Strurted Against Two Dosen Other Men – and Some Women with Drawn -On Mustaches – In a Catwalk Contest to Find the City “Performer Male”.
The online trope absorbs Various fashion trends and aesthetic choices, but above all, the performeting mountains is trying to send you a clear message – that he and your struggles and is Ready to you, Girl.
The Sanity Pads Demonstrates His Empathy and Readiness to Help Should A Nearby Woman forget She’s on Her period; The literature that he knows all about the structural and institutional barriers of the patriarchy.
The Tote Bag Will Have a Labubu Doll Attailed (He’s Playful, You SEE); The Jeans Will Be Baggy (Comfort is King); The Latte Will Be Matcha (Trendy Drinks are for Men too); The Camera Will Use Film.
Aiman, A 22-Yaar-Old Musician, Admits he has some interests that coincide with stereotypes about performed mountains, but doesn’t consider Himself One. HIS Friends insisted he participate in the contest.
In the Square, Cheering onlookers voted for their favourtite mountains after they were putting through a series of trials, which ranged from explaining their to performing romantic songs.
Aiman chose one that Became popular on tiktok, where videos about performing mountains have been widelly like and shared in recent Weeks.
“I Learnt a Few Ukulele Chords for A Clairo Song Called Sofia,” Explains Aiman, Who Insists he really is a fan of the Soft rock singer.
The book he chose was by novelist Cecelia Ahern. “Ps, I love you is actually a really good read.”
At one point Aiman Beging Throwing Roses to Adoring Fans in The Crowd. “I will be to buy Flowers quite a Lot,” he says, “be it for my friends – or for my girl.”
One of the Women in the Crowd – and it was nearly all women – was Zara mcintosh.
She Says Aiman’s Self-Confidency, WHICE INCLUDED humorous non-sanswers to tricky Questions About Women, Stood Out Above the Other Performative Men.
“He was one of the People that genuinely didn’t know if he was putting on an act, to be like the male, or if he was being himself – but the way he did perfectly.”
Zara, 22, Thinks Aiman Should Really Have Won First Place, Along With Its £ 25 Prize. He finished Third.
While the performative mountains at the contest were a humorus exaggeration of the fashion and affections you see among someone young, Zara believes there is a dereper reason why they detelves as they do.
“Think they are trying to Physically Display their Rejetion of Certain Politics,” She Says, “that they have not part of the Growing Number of Misogynistic, Right-Wing, ideologized Men you see the minute.”
LAST YEAR A SENIOR Police officer raissed the alarm about influencers like andrew tute Radicaling Boys and Young Men Into Extreme Misogyny in a way that is “quite terrifying”.
Zara Feels that, Generally Speaking, A Political Gap Has Emerged BetWeen Young Men and Women and That, for Some of the Latter, ITE’s Very Important Partners Are Clear About Where they have stand on Certain moral and Social Issues – Like abortion, feminism and gay rights.
A 2025 SURVEY OF MORE THAN 2,000-TO-29-YEAR-OLDS IN THE UK FOUND 20% of Women Said They Were Left-Wing, Compared with 13% of Young Men.
“I’m not going to deny that there is a lot of People who drast that just for the female gase,” Sayys Aiman, “and I feel like the people are just wanting toe though they’re not really interesting in (feminism) … More for female attraction.”
Another Woman in the Crowd Was 28-Yaar-Old Screenwriter Tianna Johnson, who found the event somewhat catartic.
“The contest was honestly great, participate as anyone who has found the this with this kind of guy on a date trying to figure if he serialsly thinks listing feminist was going to get laid – or if he was joking.”
A Few Years Ago Tianna, Who Is Black, Also Began Noticing Men Name-Dropping Black Feminists they have Read During Conversation.
“They’d tell me all about toni Morrison and kimberlé crenshaw, as if they had Read all their books while Locked up durying.
Aiman Is Now Riding the Wave of HIS New-Fame and Has Doses More Followers on Tiktok and Instagram, where he posts the music and makes.
A Tour of His BooksHelf Shows His Copy of Ps, I love you sitting alongside others on self-Improvement, Including Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations, and One on How to Be a Boyfriend. “I Read the Introduction after My Last Break-Up,” Aiman Says.
Following the contest, he has with Several New Fans for Pictures – Including One Who Caught a rose he threw into the Crowd.
“There are the comments Saying How Cute It Wauld Be if We Ended Up Together, but i’ve Already Got a Girlfriend.”
He haded borrowed Her Fitted Blue and White Checked Shirt for the Contest. “Her style is amazing,” he says.
But the brroad-hearted reading this shouldn’t fear. He tells with: “I’ll be releasing more covers of clairo on tiktok soon.”