Feminists Without Mystique

The news has been full of hot garbage lately, so this is a whole episode of "we see you" content, as we catch up on some of the more egregious news from the last couple of weeks. GOP legislatures all over the country are keeping us on our toes...ugh.

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We discuss the horrific mass shooting in Atlanta, the history of violence against the AAPI community in America, and why it's so hard to prosecute hate crimes. 

No 'we see you' this week. 

Shoutout to Body Count Podcast

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We briefly discuss the Grammys, the Academy Award nominations, and Mitch McConnell's latest hypocritical temper tantrum, and then get into Amy Poehler's new film, Moxie, on Netflix. 

Shoutout to the podcast Cult of Domesticity 

We see you: FBI's investigation of Kavanaugh, the Vatican, Raffaela Spone, Buzzfeed layoffs, Biden administration not letting lawyers access facilities where children at the border are being housed, lazy discourse around being cancelled

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We discuss Oprah's instantly historic interview with Meghan, Duchess of Sussex and Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex.  

Shoutout to the podcast HERStory on the Rocks

We see you: Stewart-Allen Clark, Kyrsten Sinema, outrage over the few discontinued Dr. Seuss books, nation-wide voting rights repeals, Elaine Chao, Burger King

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We discuss the New York Times/Hulu documentary “Framing Britney Spears.” It’s utterly atrocious that she has been stuck in this conservatorship for 12 years, and the blatant, vulturous misogyny of the late 90s/early aughts is stunning to revisit.

We see you: For profit rehab centers, uptick in violence against Asian Americans, personal responsibility preaching commenters, The Economist’s sexist click bait headline, Joss Whedon, racism in Houston housing appraisal market 

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We begin by discussing AOC's most recent instagram live, and then discussing the "baby bust," inspired by a recent article by Lyz, "The Pandemic is Breaking Women and Now We Have to Have Babies? Go to Hell." As we've spoken about before, the pandemic is affecting women disproportionately, and women of color even more-so. We discuss what in looks like in this moment make reproductive choices in this moment. 

We see you: Rochester cops who pepper sprayed a nine year old, Max Hasting, Meghan McCain, Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham, Stacey Griffith

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It's the first week of the Biden administration so we can all breathe a sigh of relief... and then get back to work! It's heartening to see all the executive orders Biden has already signed, and yet when we look at the Senate we're already stressing about the need to abolish the filibuster. Looking straight at YOU, Joe Manchin!

Today we focus our attention on the dreaded topic of "cancel culture." It's not fun, but we get through it. People with long held privilege get ruffled when they're held accountable for their words and behaviors, if only on Twitter. Bad faith discourse follows. We try to get into some of the nuance around accountability and free speech. 

We see you: Child brides in the US, Tucker Carlson, Kellyanne Conway, Marjorie Taylor Greene, bathroom etiquette, the officer who body-slammed a student in Osceola county, FL

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