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Alex Cooper made a name for herself dishing all the graphic details about her lurid sex life and promoting hookup culture on her hit podcast “Call Her Daddy.” Now, she’s married and expecting a child.
This has pro-family conservatives furious. Critics are accusing her of teaching younger women bad lessons about sex and relationships while ultimately living by a different book herself.
This may be partially true. But her critics should take a beat.
Yes, Cooper promoted casual sex to her impressionable viewers, but now she is providing an example for young women who want to close that chapter of their lives. Conservatives should be cheering her on, not tearing her down.
Fury broke out online after Cooper, 31, posted a photo to Instagram caressing her pregnant belly with her husband, film producer Matt Kaplan. She captioned the post, “Our family 🤍.”
Users took to the comment section, flooding it with jabs like “I hope motherhood changes your soul,” “the irony in this is just wild,” and “hope this is a lesson to you.”
One user got thousands of likes on a comment asking, “Wait… That doesn’t go quite with your brand, right? What happened? 👀”
The discourse on X was even more brutal.
“The same Alex Cooper who’s built a career on telling women to stay single, abort their babies, and embrace their inner hoe … is celebrating her new pregnancy with her husband,” a user wrote. “You can’t make this s—t up folks.”
“Alex Cooper spent her life building the #1 podcast for women, telling them to hookup, be wh—s, avoid commitment, be raunchy and mock men… Nobody lies to women more than other women,” another user said.
They’re right that Cooper hasn’t exactly promoted traditional values when it comes to sex and dating. She made a name for herself — and secured a $125 million podcasting deal — by taking to the mic with graphic and shocking details about her own sex life.
She popularized an oral sex technique on her podcast, which she called the “Gluck Gluck 9000” featuring two hands and a vacuum seal. She’s told stories about flying to Paris to stay with a man she had never met, who she still had sex with though she didn’t like him.
She also has a lot of unhelpful advice for her audience. In one rant, Cooper told her listeners to ignore anyone who might say you shouldn’t kiss — or have sex — on a first date.
“No kissing on the first date? Well sometimes I f—k them on the first date,” she said in an April episode of her podcast. “You have to go based on what feels good to your body and what feels right to you.”
Her advice to her young female audience: “If you have some f—king friends who are prudes who are like, ‘You should never kiss on the first date, you’re going to give them the wrong impression, and they’re just going to think you’re a w—re.’ Okay, maybe for you, Cassandra, but I’m about to let him in all night.”
Cooper then alluded to the progression of her relationship with her husband — joking she didn’t let him perform oral sex on her on their first date and instead waited until their second.
None of it is wholesome family content, sure. Yes, it absolutely does teach young women bad lessons. And, sure, her prideful pregnancy pics are quite a pivot from this sort of rhetoric.
But would Cooper’s critics have preferred she stay in her lane, never find happiness, and push hookup culture on young women forever?
The ultimate takeaway from her arc to motherhood isn’t her hypocrisy. It’s that young women aren’t trapped in a lane forever. They can still turn a page, pursue love, and start a family.
Cooper is literally leading by example.
She’s not a conservative podcaster preaching to the choir about the importance of family. She’s teaching that lesson to her fan base of millions of young women who might not be inclined to believe that in the first place.
Cooper is giving her critics who believe in marriage and family a gift. She’s proving to young women that marriage and family are, in fact, what’s most important in the end — even if your path to getting there is a bit messy.
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