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Carpenter's history, combined with the hyperbolic nature of the album art, should be the first clue that she might be playing with audiences.

If this seems hyperbolic, it's a good time to remember that Trump's false claims that the election was "stolen" from Republican voters inspired the insurrection at the Capitol on Jan. 6.

Rubio, like most in the Trump administration, uses hyperbolic and accusatory language towards his victims, calling them "lunatics."

But that caveat is drowned out by the hyperbolic and highly gendered language that frames empathy as emasculating.

So there's pressure to perform gender in hyperbolic ways, to the point where they look like cartoon versions of "man" and "woman," instead of regular people.