The Real Meaning of Gatekeeping
What's new today on the Cut — covering style, self, culture, and power, plus interviews, profiles, columns, and commentary from our editors. MONDAY, JULY 31 the internet The Real Meaning of Gatekeeping It's always been about the most powerful — it's who has power and what they do with it that has changed. Photo-Illustration: the Cut; Photos Getty Images What are you gatekeeping? Shania Twain was accused of gatekeeping Harry Styles's phone number. High Times denounced "stoner gatekeeping," and racing fans pledged not to gatekeep Formula 1. On TikTok, if you gatekeep where you bought that vintage skirt or which drugstore moisturizer you use or or what's the best martini in the city or how you're making money from selling feet pics, you'll be chastised . Gatekeeping used to refer to people with their hands on the levers of institutional power. Sai