In episode 3, we discuss the phenomenon of "the BPD girlie," perform cheeky armchair psychoanalysis of cultural icons like Livia Soprano and Amy Dunne, and enter the amniotic world of Robert Altman's stunning 1977 film, "3 Women." We hope you enjoy...if you don't, we're deleting the whole thing. But you will enjoy it because you love us, right?

Timestamps

0:50 intro

4:17 our crazy confessional

11:52 an anthropological justification for our navel gazing

26:12 is chicness a criteria in the DSM-V?

34:24 in which we commit the cardinal sin of categorizing women

49:18 three examples you should or should not emulate

1:23:48 bitches of note

1:32:50 outro

Sources

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Christensen, A. (3920). “Catastrophically Romantic”: Radical Inversions of Gilbert and Gubar’s Monstrous Angel in Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl. American, British and Canadian Studies, 35(1) 86-110. https://doi.org/10.2478/abcsj-2020-0018

Gilbert, S.M., Gilbert, S.M., & Federico, A.R. (2011). Gilbert and Gubar's The Madwoman in the Attic after Thirty Years. (1 ed.). Columbia: University of Missouri Press.

Langill, Molly. “‘Mad Women’ in Robert Altman’s 3 Women and Images.” Offscreen. 2014;18(8). https://offscreen.com/view/mad-women-robert-altman

Santiago Cortés, Michelle. “Girl Internet.” https://dirt.fyi/article/2023/07/girl-internet. 20 July 2023.

This episode’s interludes borrow from the Mommie Dearest soundtrack suite composed by Henry Mancini.