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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

A for Alone by Curtis Sittenfeld

Wednesday’s Child by Yiyun Li

Our episode on White Noise by Emma Cline and The Assistant (2019)

Aziz Ansari

Cat Person by Kristen Roupenian

Junot Díaz

The mounting, undeniable Me Too backlash by Constance Grady

Sexual assault allegations seem to be a badge of honor in Trump’s America. Was #MeToo an epic failure? by Carter Sherman

On Heteropessimism by Asa Seresin

The First Stone by Helen Garner

The Women’s Room by Marylin French

The Ghost in the Martini by Anthony Hecht

Was Casual Sex Always This Bad? by Emily Leibert

Men Going Their Own Way

The 4B movement

Secret show notes

The Infinite Pussy Glitch: The Data Behind Dating as an Eligible Man in NYC by Lana Li

Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi

Adriana Smith

Champagne Sharks

Dan Savage

The Wife of Bath's Tale

Disobedience (2017)

Frequently mentioned names:

– Joshua Mehigan

– Shane McCrae

– A. E. Stallings

– Ryan Wilson

– Morri Creech

– Austin Allen

– Jonathan Farmer

– Zara Raab

– Amit Majmudar

– Ethan McGuire

– Coleman Glenn

– Chris Childers

– Alexis Sears

– JP Gritton

– Alex Pepple

– Ernie Hilbert

– Joanna Pearson

Other Ratbag Poetry Pods:

Poetry Says by Alice Allan

I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall

Versecraft by Elijah Blumov

Ratbag Poetics By David Jalal Motamed

Alice: In Future

Brian: @BPlatzer

Cameron: Minor Tiresias

Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com

Music by ETRNL

Art by Daniel Alexander Smith