Happy Friday EICers, settle in we've got some problems to solve...this week on the podcast, we’re talking about the problem with personal essays, and the trouble with wanting men.

For The Bookseller, Caroline O'Donoghue wrote a piece titled 'up close and personal: Why are female authors asked to bare their souls to promote their books?'. She writes 'My 25-year-old self wrote about her smear test because she was trying to crowbar her way into an industry that felt like a locked room. Now, at 35, I’m beginning to feel I’m trapped in a room that is locked from the inside.'

Why do we not trust women to be as smart and as interesting story tellers as men, why do we need this level of emotional investment in female writers' lives to buy their work?

Next up, The Trouble With Wanting Men. In a recent New York Times article of the same name, writer Jean Garnett asks what we as women should do with our desire when so many of find ourselves fed up of dating men. And she looks at this through the lens of “heteropessimism” or “heterofatalism” as it’s now been amended to, which is a term that was coined by sexuality scholar Asa Seresin in 2019 in a piece for the New Inquiry. And in this piece Seresin defines it as such “ Heteropessimism consists of performative disaffiliations with heterosexuality, usually expressed in the form of regret, embarrassment, or hopelessness about straight experience. Heteropessimism generally has a heavy focus on men as the root of the problem.” She goes on to discuss how, though sincere, this feeling most often isn’t accompanied by action, as most women who express it, will continue to date men.

We hope you enjoy, as always please do rate & review :) B,R,O xx

AND please vote for us in the British Podcast Awards listener nominations here

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Ruchira's been loving Friendship

Beth's been loving First Dates

Oenone's been loving Jurassic World Rebirth

Why Are Female Authors Asked To Bare Their Souls To Promote Their Books?

Where''s The 'You'? - Naoise Dolan

The Trouble With Wanting Men

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Welcome weary podcast traveller! Time to take a seat, kick off your dusty sandals and voyage with us, your hosts, into the murky land of digital nomad discourse.

In a recent piece for The Guardian US, freelance journalist and former digital nomad Emily Bratt explores the less glamourous side of island hopping and beach bar working. She writes: "Somewhere around the midway mark of my most recent six-month trip, something happened. A whisper of a thought began to emerge at the back of my mind. By the final month, it was a pervasive shriek: What am I doing?” And in a world where more and more people are planning to ditch their desk and fixed address, we're forced to ask: is working on the move an F U to capitalism, or is it just the same old slog in slightly shorter trousers?

Thank you so much for all of your comments and takes on this topic- they were as thought-provoking, sensitive and honest as always.

Follow us on IG & TikTok @ everythingiscontentpod if you would like to take part in future episodes or see some BTS footage.

Talk soon!

O, R, B x

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THE GUARDIAN US - When The Digital Nomad Dream Turns Sour

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Oi Oi! It's a brand new episode of EIC.

This week, we weighed in on the fiery-hot online response to the tech CEO and colleague caught canoodling at Coldplay. We also took an unflinching look into the discourse of Gen Z are their allegedly blank-expressions. Annnnd, Charli didn't throw this wedding party 4 u – she clearly did it for herself. We get into the real Royal Wedding and the trends being set in its wake.

Please give us a follow on IG/TikTok @everythingiscontentpod and we'd love a review wherever you're listening to this pleeease <3

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This week, Beth Loved Cole Escola on Good Hang With Amy Poehler

Ruchira loved Overcompensating

Oenone loved Untamed, Girls, The Ballad of Wallis Island & The Outrun

The Real Reason Everyone's So Mad At The Gen Z Stare - Vox

The Gen Z stare isn’t rude. We’re just not going to conform for your comfort

The ‘Gen Z stare’? Young people need to get over this limp act of defiance

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Pssst... yes, you, want the latest hot gossip? We've got you covered, happy Wednesday :)

Tattle Life describes itself as ‘a commentary website on public business social media accounts which allows commentary and critiques of people that choose to monetise their personal life as a business and release it into the public domain.'

They say that they ‘have a zero-tolerance policy to any content that is abusive, hateful or harmful and a team of moderators online 24/7 to remove any content that breaks our strict rules, often in minutes.’

And yet, a landmark legal case involving the website concluded with a £300,000 damages award to Neil and Donna Sands, a couple from County Antrim, following their successful defamation and harassment lawsuit. The two-year legal battle unmasked the site’s operator, Sebastian Bond, who had previously concealed his identity under the alias “Helen McDougal.” The Sands couple, who endured prolonged abuse and stalking, argued that the platform promoted hate speech and severely harmed their reputations.

Neil Sands, a tech entrepreneur, and his wife Donna, who runs a fashion business, launched the legal proceedings after facing sustained harassment, privacy violations, defamatory content, and breaches of their data rights. Tattle Life, which draws up to 12 million monthly visitors, is known for forums where users comment on influencers, celebrities, and members of the public.

Should anonymous gossip websites exist? Will this court case have any real long-term ramifications? Listen to hear our thoughts!

Thank you so much for all of your comments and takes as always, O,R,B x

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This week on the pod we're LENA-ing into the drama by discussing the Girls & Too Much creator and trying to parse whether Lena Dunham's rise, fall and rise again have been fairly examined.

First up the many scandals of Lena Dunham, her skewering online and what of her many controversies were actually controversial.

Next up we revisit out fav eps of Girls and ask if the show has aged well or is a remnant of Millennial heydays gone by.

Finally we're discussing new Netflix 10 parter Too Much which stars Meg Stalter as a heartbroken but determined producer trying to reinvent herself in London. We share our thoughts, criticisms and ask just how autobiographical is this show.

We hope you enjoy, and always, thank you so much for listening. O,R,B xx

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Beth's been loving Selfish People by Abigail Bergstrom.

Oenone's been loving Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid.

Ruchira's been loving The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer and Search Engine Podcast.

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Paging EIC fans, we've got a controversial new extra episode for you... this week we're debating whether casual relationships exist for men and women in 2025.

While Carrie Bradshaw made casual dating look easy, breezy (cover girl), why are women all around us struggling to enjoy the romantic fruits of this arrangement? We read a brilliant Substack that posited many are confusing 'casual' with complete nonchalance and lack of care instead. We get into the weeds of it all and share our own experiences of dating in this episode, along with your insightful thoughts.

You can read her piece here!

If you like this or any other episode could you please, please, please (à la Sabrina Carpenter) gift us a review on your podcast player app. Also if you fancy joining in in these episodes, give us a follow on IG at @everythingiscontentpod <3

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Happy Friday EIC-heads, we're back with another dose of content.

On Saturday The Observer published an investigation by writer Chloe Hadjimatheou into the bestselling book The Salt Path and the couple behind it. The film adaptation was also just released about 6 weeks ago and stars Gillian Anderson and Oscar Isaac as the couple. The book has been billed by the Guardian as 'A beautiful, thoughtful, lyrical story of homelessness, human strength and endurance' 'Luminescent. A literary phenomenon' by Mail on Sunday and “a beautiful story and a reminder that humans can endure adversity' Stylist. But as Chloe Hadjimatheou discovers, it may also be a little too good to be true...

Next up, Ruchira's been utterly obsessed with Netflix’s The Ultimatum: Queer Love series 2 or what everyone actually calls it i.e. Queer Ultimatum. The series brings six couples together. Each of these couples have one person who desperately wants to get married and one who doesn’t. The latter have been issued an ultimatum by their partner I.e go on this show with me and by the end if you don’t change your mind we break up. We discuss!

And lastly, we need to talk about Brad Pitt. Allegations against him have been in the public eye for years now, so why is he still, Hollywood's golden boy?

We hope you enjoy, and always, thank you so much for listening. O,R,B xx

Beth's been loving: Here Comes The Guillotine

Ruchira's been loving: The Rehearsal Series 2

Oenone's been loving: NYT Games

The real Salt Path: how a blockbuster book and film were spun from lies, deceit and desperation

The Ultimatum: Queer Love

Brad Pitt's Fooling You

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Happy Wednesday and even happier EIConversation day to you and everyone you know. This week we're getting into Kylie Jenner's boob job recipe and what this new spate of plastic surgery disclosures from celebs means for the rest of us. Should we be grateful they're telling us or suspicious that it's not quite the whole story? Could it help keep comparison at bay or simply make it easier for people to spend £££ and risk their health to emulate their favourite famous person? We attempt to get to the bottom of all of this and more with the help from all of you lovely listeners.

We hope you enjoy, and as always please do follow + review the show on your podcast player app as it helps others to find the podcast :)

O,R,B x

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We are back. The two-weeks are over!

Oenone's new fav film is The Ballad of Wallis Island starring Tim Key, Carey Mulligan, Tom Basden and Sian Clifford. If you're after some joy, some tears and some meditations on life, this is for you.

Beth's rage bait of the week is.... Bezos' tacky wedding. We get a lil salty, and discuss the billionaire's bridal event, the guests and the questionable aesthetics.

Ruchira takes us through Jameela Jamil's beef with a Sunday Times profile of her. She's since sworn off female print journalists... is that fair?

Thank you for returning back to us and being so patient with our break. It worked a treat and we're so excited to be back. Could you please share us with a friend and review us? It's the reason we can keep going <3

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Oenone recommended.... Elis James and John Robins

Ruchira recommended.... The Rehearsal S1

Beth recommended.... Love Island USA

The Ballad of Wallis Island

The Dark Poetry of the Bezos Wedding

Forget quiet luxury. The wedding of Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez screamed ‘money’

Jameela Jamil: ‘I stood up for Meghan long before I met her’

I think I'm done with being interviewed by women.

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Happy Wednesday - we're back from our little break, hooray, we missed you! Grab a cuppa and please do join us for a mid-week natter.

This week's conversation is about the very divisive And Just Like That, reboot culture & the Spice Girls, with the help of the incredible Juno Dawson. Juno is a Sunday Times best-selling novelist, screenwriter, podcaster, and a former columnist for Attitude Magazine. Her books include This Book Is Gay and Clean, as well as her first adult fantasy trilogy Her Majesty's Royal Coven which launched in 2022, becoming an instant best-seller. Many will also know her as the co-host of the hit Sex and the City podcast, So I Got To Thinking.

We speak to Juno about why Bratz dolls are c*nt, where And Just Like That misses the mark, and the last novel in her best-selling series.

We hope you enjoy the episode - we will see you on Friday :) Byeeeeeee O, R, B x

So I Got To Thinking

Her Majesty's Royal Coven Juno Dawson

Queen B Juno Dawson

Human Rites Juno Dawson (pre-order)

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