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Do We Start Slutshaming Pete Davidson Now?

Or is that reserved just for women?

Taru Anniina Liikanen
5 min readAug 8, 2022
Tay-Tay knows this all too well. Image credit: Eva Rinaldi, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons. Image source.

So, to the surprise of absolutely no one, the partnership/relationship between Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson has reportedly ended after nine blissful and widely publicized months of sex and paparazzi and Kanye’s death threats.

Now, I believe these two probably really had some fun in those nine months, apart from the nice boost to their fame. But it’s not exactly a shock that Kim and Pete weren’t meant to be, especially considering their 13-year age difference and lifestyle differences.

Who would have thought a 28-year-old comedian and a 41-year-old mother of four would run into some trouble organizing their schedules?

Not to mention Davidson’s tendency to have relatively short relationships: with Kim, Ariana Grande, Kate Beckinsale and Kaia Gerber, among others. Which is fine, especially for a young person at the height of his fame, enjoying his life.

Now, I just want to know one thing: do we start treating Davidson as a pathetic and vengeful creature who changes partners more often than he changes t-shirts, or is that role only reserved for women?

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Taru Anniina Liikanen
Taru Anniina Liikanen

Written by Taru Anniina Liikanen

Stand-up comedian and recovering political ghostwriter. Finnish by birth, porteña at heart. Bad jokes frequent.

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