NYC Socialists Are Seizing the Means of Reproduction at a Lefty Singles Mixer
15th February 2025
“OK! If you’re monogamous, come on this side of the room. If you’re figuring it out, stay in the center. And if you’re polyamorous, then all the way on this side.”
On the night before Valentine’s Day, comedian Naomi Karavani was on stage corralling the packed crowd at “Thots & Trots,” a “socialist singles mixer” hosted by the New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America.
The sold-out event was held at Silo, an airplane hangar-sized music venue in industrial Bushwick, with more than 300 registered attendees mingling to talk politics and love.
THOT means ‘that ho over there’. (Compare ‘304‘.)
“?If you have a pet, over here,” Karavani announced, directing traffic. “The polyamorous people do not have pets. You guys can’t afford pets. You’re spending all the money on your girlfriends.”
Note that it’s not ‘You’re spending all your money on your boyfriends.’ Even in the socialist world, men are the ones doing the spending, and women are the ones getting spent on. (How sexist.)