Halftime
On Bad Bunny, power, and who gets the stage
Bad Bunny closed the Super Bowl saying “the only thing more powerful than hate is love,” and I sit here today thinking: why is he the one saying this for 13 minutes at halftime, and not the person leading us?
How did we get here?
How did we end up being led by someone who actually enjoys cruelty — who gets off on it — while someone talking about love, about culture, about dancing and loving without fear... he gets a stage for a show, and then it’s over?
I don’t have an answer. I just find myself dreaming about the inversion of it.
The people with power right now are using it to hurt. To scare. To make people hungry, sick, poor, afraid — on purpose. And we all just... keep going. Keep refreshing. Keep doomscrolling. Keep watching it happen.
And then this sweet Bad Bunny gets up there and names the thing we’re all avoiding: that the opposite of this isn’t winning or being right or being louder. It’s love. It’s connection. It’s refusing to be afraid.
And I guess I caught myself sitting with the heartbreak of that.
Just me?
If you’re new here, I usually write about love, connection, and loving without fear in our sexual and intimate lives. This felt connected.