Like a Virgin

Next week, we will be discussing nothing but Dolly Parton. This episode, recorded hours before the passing of the one and only Dolly Parton, features the following: 

• Why everyone should come to Doll Invasion
• The Ren Faire docuseries just might get us to reconsider the documentary genre
• Our X3 viewing
• Recent casting controversy in the upcoming Harry Potter series
• The Gilded Age is returning and infinitely better than Harry Potter
• Two recommendations from Rose’s Book Corner:
• Red X by David Demchuk (2021)
• Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo (2021)
• 2 Trans 2 Furious
• What Fran and Rose would do with $10M+ in inheritance
• Birkin discourse
• The Bisexual Problem by VerilyBitchie
• How We Show Up by Mia Birdsong

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LOVE Y’ALL XOXO ROSE AND FRAN

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This episode discusses two films we’ve lovingly labeled as the “queer homework” genre. Both films are about sex, and some kind of unlocking, and both films are very firmly in an indie filmmaker canon for the Criterion-enjoyer: 

• Jane Schoenbrun's Sex & Death at Camp Miasma
• and Gregg Araki’s I Want Your Sex

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XOXO Rose & Fran

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It’s a Girls Girling episode! Rose and Fran conduct unstructured gossip and the latest in culture. For highly researched deep-dive episodes twice a month, subscribe at Patreon.com/LikeAVirgin

This week, we discuss:

• Baela get your gun! And more on the House of Dragon S3 finale
• Titane’s place in the trans canon
• Is Muriel’s Wedding better than the Odyssey?
• Someone Please Buy Rose the $2200 Franklin Mint Rose from Titantic Doll Trunk Set
• More X-Men gossip

Next week we’ll discuss Jane Schoenbrun's Sex & Death at Camp Miasma and Greg Arakki’s I Want Your Sex

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On week’s episode we discuss:

• Fran’s current planning phase for Doll Invasion on Fire Island Aug 28-30
• Why is Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender literal porn?
• The highs and lows of Tom Holland’s fourth Spider-man movie: Brand New Day
• X-Men casting rumors and what lies ahead for the MCU

XOXoxoxox Fran & Rose

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A jam-packed episode devoted solely to Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey — and the original Homeric text? You’re welcome! Stories are so powerful.

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In this episode we discuss:

• Why there was no butt sex in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey?
• Zeus’s Law, and what the film tries (and fails) to say about war. Spoiler alert: war bad
• Background on the collapse of the Bronze Age and how Nolan inverts the myth of the “Sea People.”
• How The Odyssey’s redemption of Men™ mirrors Nolan’s other films
• Was Zendaya a goddess or Odysseus' conscience? Does it matter??
• Why Tom Holland turned every scene into gay porn
• Why Anne Hathaway will win the Oscar
• Why Samantha Morton will also win the Oscar
• The role of Women™ in The Odyssey — both Homerically and Nolanly
• Dr. Emily Wilson’s eviscerating take on Nolan’s Odyssey
• Odysseus’ Obstacles, Ranked on the Suck-o-meter:
• The Cyclops/Polyphemus
• The Giants/The Laestrygonians
• Circe
• Tiresies/The Shades of the Underworld
• The Sirens
• Scylla and Charybdis
• Helios’ Cattle
• Calypso
• Boat of Idiots (aka Odysseus’ men)
• All These Hoes (aka Antinous and the suitors)
• The Official Like a Virgin Guide to Peeing During The Odyssey
• Does Ludwig Göransson deserve to get his ass ate?
• Does Christopher Nolan deserve to get his ass ate?
• Is The Odyssey better than Disney’s Hercules?
• Is The Odyssey better than Uptown Girls?

MADELINE MILLER YOU WILL ALWAYS BE FAMOUS!!!!!!!!

XOXoxoxox Fran & Rose

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A juicy episode on the main feed this week discussing the transgender undertones of John Early’s Maddie’s Secret. 

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On this week’s free episode we discuss:

• How to enjoy John Early’s Maddie’s Secret when some of its comedic sensibility rests on a man dressed as a woman.
• The influences and precarious precedent of Maddie’s Secret’s “gender comedy”: Oh! Mary, Madea, Big Momma’s House, Mrs. Doubtfire, John Waters, Tootsie, The Birdcage, White Chicks, and more.
• The grotesque soullessness of the Avengers: Doomsday trailer
• The resounding disappointment of The Vampire Lestat
• The bloodlust of Project Runway’s 78th season.

• Homework: Everyone go see Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey in time for next week’s discussion.

XOXoxoxox Fran & Rose

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Subscribe to bonus episodes on patreon.com/likeavirgin - this month, jam-packed dive into Madonna’s Confessions 1 and 2. 

On this week’s free episode we discuss:

• Going to Club Confessions
• God Tier Madonna Remixes
• The Xmen reboot HATES women ? 
• Avatar: the Last Airbender live action is the most unfunny shit! 
• Why The Americans is required viewing 
• Vampire Lestat in its flop era? (But Sheila Atim tore!)
• The Invite is neo-hetero propaganda 
• Evil Dead: Burn 
• Lee Cronin’s The Mummy
• Ormund Hightower’s ass
• Why Industry was robbed in the Emmy nominations

XOXoxoxox Fran & Rose

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• Rose is a recent Sniffies convert thanks to Sniffiesvangelist Fran
• A gay history of a circulating meme featuring photo-chopped Madonna from 2006 that’s weirdly entwined with Rose and Fran’s career
• Rose and Fran’s abbreviated thoughts on Confessions 2. 
• (Head to Patreon for a Confessions 1 & 2 deep-dive discussion, album/era history, track analysis, and more on a bonus episode very soon.)
• Rose’s review of John Early’s Maddie’s Secret
• Fran and Rose saw the gay horror film Leviticus
• Discussion of Rhaenyra’s first days in office

XOXoxoxox Fran & Rose

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This is a free episode of Like a Virgin!

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This week, we discuss:

• Why you should listen to our latest bonus episode “Best Disney Dresses” on Patreon.com/LikeAVirgin

• Recent viewings of:

  • Ever After

  • Salt

  • Escape Room: Tournament of Champions

  • The Americans

• Recent readings of: 

  • Carrying by Samantha Josephs (out 10/6, PREORDER NOW!!!)

  • Paradise Logic by Sophie Kemp

• Why aren’t there more fairies in media?

• Stream the Sonic R Original Soundtrack!!!!!!!

• Why we’re only rooting for the dragons, on House of Dragon

• Is a Rock-aissance in our midst? Extended discussion of Charli XCX’s singles thus far from her forthcoming not-rock album

• Homework for the Virgins

  • Listen to Madonna’s Confessions 1 & 2

  • See Leviticus

  • Watch/recommend your favorite action movie starring a woman for discussion in next week's episode

XOXoxoxox Fran & Rose

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This week we discuss:

• Rose met Zohran and now they’re in a nonhierarchal poly structure 
• House of Dragon S3: MILF porn?
• The State of Olivia Rodrigo, and why her music is for virgins (derogatory)
• The Vampire Lestat: MILF porn??? 
• Rose’s Reading List: 
• So Thirsty by Rachel Harrison
• Petty Lies by Sulmi Bak
• Mister Magic by Kiersten White
• Hard Luck Jenny by David Sodergren
• The Dark Tower: Drawing of the Three by Stephen King
• Last Days by Brian Evensen

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Xoxo Fran & Rose

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