By William Mata

A couple of weeks ago, a friend sent me a personality test.

The questions included: ‘Have you read Raven Leilani books?’ Yes.

‘Do you like Lana Del Rey?’ Yes, and I even have her albums on CD because I’m old school.

‘Do you use wired headphones?’ Yes, I get annoyed with Bluetooth because, well, see previous.

‘Do you own a Labubu?’ No (I had to Google this to find out it is a soft toy).

The results came back with an apparently damning assessment that I am a 75 per cent ‘performative male’. More Googling was required.

An AI result helpfully came back that the term is given to “men who adopt specific, often feminine-coded, behaviours, tastes, and aesthetics”. What’s more, the........

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