Queerbaiting is a marketing technique for fiction and entertainment in which creators hint at, but then do not depict, same-sex romance or other LGBTQ+ representation. The purpose is to attract a LGBTQ+ or straight ally audience with the suggestion or possibility of relationships or characters that appeal to them

On Jan 21, Beyonce took the stage for her first live performance since 2020. The event was hosted at Atlantis The Royal, an "ultra luxury" hotel in Dubai. Beyoncé was staying in a room that cost $100,000 a night and was over 11,000 square feet. Although some fans were excited about Beyonce's return to the stage, others criticised her decision to perform in the UAE, a country where homosexuality is criminalised. Beyoncé dedicated "Renaissance" to her uncle, who was gay, and the album was embraced by the queer community — and so the juxtaposition between that sentiment and the setting of the album's first live performance was apparent to some fans

The overturning of the monumental Roe vs. Wade which guaranteed abortion rights of women in the United States are steadily seeing its repercussions on women’s choices. A handful of states have now passed legislations banning or making abortion hard for women in a given state

(Technocrats are individuals with technical training and occupations who perceive many important societal problems as being solvable with the applied use of scientific or technical knowledge.)

Being Machiavellian suggests being or acting in consonance with the principles of government espoused in Machiavelli's The Prince, in which political expediency is prioritized over morality and the application of craft and deception to maintain authority and carry out a ruler's policies is described. The adage "the ends justify the means" has summed up this approach particularly well in political and popular literature