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The Year of the Rat: Timothée Chalamet, Jeremy Allen White, and 'Rodent Men'
from Rodent Men & Justin Timberlake | The Tim Dillon Show #396 · #396
4 min
Tim riffs on a trend of women being attracted to men with rat-like features, running through Chalamet, Jeremy Allen White, Conor, and Barry Keoghan as different flavors of 'sexy rat,' and speculating on the sociopolitical meaning of the fetish.
- Tim clarifies he's not saying Timothée Chalamet and Jeremy Allen White look like rats—The Guardian is.
- Women have rotating fetishes for body types: dad bod, muscular guys, nerds, and now the latest iteration is rodent men.
- Tim breaks down which celebrities embody the rat aesthetic: Chalamet looks like a sexy Disney rat, Jeremy Allen White like a tranquilized rat, and Barry Keogan is the Rat King.
- This rat trend might be the opening door to people having sex with animals, though it's really about fantasizing over attractive guys as cartoon rats.
- Tim addresses rat men directly: this is their summer, their time, after years of having squirrely features considered bothersome.
- There's a masculinity to being a rat—it involves the cheese element, filthiness, tunnels, and possibly a connection to women's True Crime obsession with being thrown in trunks.
Timothée ChalametJeremy Allen WhiteBarry KeoghanConor