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Opinionated: The Feminists You Were Warned About
All about pussies this week! Who gets to control them? Do they really shut down when raped? Is it cool to treat women as some irritating obstacle between you and pussy? And when is it appropriate for pussies to riot?...
Michael Brooks comes on to explore the question of whether the Paul Ryan pick means Mitt Romney wants to lose. Samhita and Amanda discuss why people forgive male comedians a lot more for casual racism than female ones. Plus: Why...
Baratunde Thurston joins the podcast to talk about race, the election, and assorted nonsense. Samhita and Amanda discuss the shooting in Wisconsin and wonder when is a good time to talk about gun control. Also, a new #femquery.
Zerlina Maxwell comes on the show to talk about Romney's parade of gaffes, as well as his fancy dancing horse he claims to have practically forgotten he owns. She stays on to talk Olympics and explain some of the finer...
Women are trying to find female friends though online "dating". This might be a better idea than it seems on the surface. After the horrible tragedy in Aurora, Colorado, calls to reinstate stricter gun control are being ignored. But there's...
Samhita has finally watched "Girls", just in time to talk about the Anna Holmes piece in the New Yorker about the show and the realities of female friendship. Frank Ocean shares his story about loving a man, and Amanda and...
Samhita and Amanda bring on Ann Friedman, beloved editor and Tumblr genius, to discuss how busy we are all the time. Or are we actually just farting into the couch and making excuses to our friends for why we can't...
Jamie and Allison from "Citizen Radio" brought on Amanda and Samhita for an hour+ discussion about the Supreme Court, lady stuff, pick-up artists, and, of course, cats. This podcast is being broadcast over both feeds, so if you haven't checked...
Who knew a sneaker could be so racist? Samhita and Amanda investigate. A rape scene in an upcoming video game points to some larger problems with sexism in video games and in the general world of geek. Michigan legislators fear...
Samhita and Amanda discuss the season finale of Mad Men, and the problem that arises when one of the most feminist shows on TV has a race-fail. Turns out that women love the internet and computers and tablet and phones,...
Samhita and Amanda are very sorry they ran off to the circus for a week, and promise not to do it again. Post-circus topics: Sex selective abortion in the U.S. is a hoax. Mitt Romney's people make it clear that...
Samhita and Amanda discuss the battle over the Violence Against Women Act, and how the mail order bride industry got involved. New numbers from the Census show that non-white babies outnumber white ones, and more research shows that we might...
Erika Nicole Kendall comes on to talk about feminist approaches to weight and health, and to denounce the NY Times yet again for making a pointless spectacle out of black women. Amanda and Samhita talk about the limits to our...
Samhita has a birthday and an anniversary of quitting the demon tobacco. Amanda parties with the rednecks. Both are deeply saddened by the death of Adam Yauch and want to remember him for the great guy he was. On this...
The Violence Against Women Act is running against reauthorization problems. The Christian right is to blame, of course, but why this is especially appalling during our economic times. Reactions to Mona Eltahawy's piece continue a very hard discussion, but people...
Samhita and Amanda discuss Mona Eltahawy's powerful and complex piece on misogyny in Muslim nations. In their version of lightening the mood, they also discuss our comical shock troops for ladies who hate ladies, specifically Lila Rose and S.E. Cupp....
Samhita and Amanda are appalled by Katie Roiphe's aggressive anti-feminist trolling. The hologram of Tupac Shakur creates a rift in the space-time continuum, causing your hosts to wonder what your post-death hologram will show you doing. More #femquery answers, and...
Samhita and Amanda welcome special guest Aminatou Sow to discuss why not every man living in the friend zone wants to be in the bone zone with his female friends. Ashley Judd uses the word "patriarchy" in public, and the...
An anti-choice legislator in Georgia compares women to farm animals in an effort to strip away their rights to basic medical care. Terrorists attack a Planned Parenthood in Wisconsin. Samhita and Amanda are pissed. But it's all okay, because this...
Jesse Taylor joins the show to talk about Trayvon Martin and dealing with the irrational fear of black men and boys that leads to violence. Samhita and Amanda are peeing-their-pants happy about "Mad Men", but much less enthused about beauty...
Samhita has a cold and Amanda is recovering from laryingitis, giving her voice a one time only huskiness, special for devoted listeners. Your hosts believe the George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin case is a pretty obvious travesty of justice. Samhita offers some...
Samhita and Amanda are at South By Southwest Interactive! They're both presenting and absorbing and have lots of exciting news to share about technology, identity, sex, gender, and race. Plus: booze and breakfast tacos, and Samhita has an unfortunate encounter...
Amanda and Samhita don't like Rush Limbaugh, not one bit. But they appreciate his willingness to just come out with it and label 99% of American women sluts, because that sort of thing is galvanizing. Besides discussing the fuckery of...
Samhita and Amanda ponder the mystery that is men who want to touch vaginas, want to punish women who use their own vaginas by probing their vaginas, but cannot say the word "vagina". The Oscars go unwatched but we are...
Samhita and Amanda explain, in great detail, what a douchebag Ross Douthat really is. It's educational, and not just about Douthat! Interracial marriages are on the rise, but what does it mean? Why sports wives are constantly bagged on. Additionally,...
Amanda and Samhita are not on Team Chris Brown. Shocking, I know. An explanation of how thoroughly Obama punked the Republicans on contraception access, with a side discussion of the stupidity of CPAC. Whitney Houston is dead and we are...
Samhita and Amanda talk Super Bowl, partying on Valentine's Day and the unpopular opinion that "Parks and Rec" is starting to suck. Sady Doyle comes on for two segments, to talk about a piece she wrote about emotional abuse for...
Samhita and Amanda talk about Occupy Oakland and Occupy Valentine's Day. Marc Faletti explains why the NFL is so sexist and racist, but why people love football anyway. And now for the first edition of Fem Query, where you can...
Samhita and Amanda talk about why Republicans love Newt Gingrich despite his immense and hypocritical baggage. Why is it that once people get into their 30s, they somehow completely forget what it was like to be a young teenager fascianted...
Samhita and Amanda depress themselves talking about the racism on display at the Republican debate in South Carolina on King Day. To cheer themselves up, they make fun of this poem about the word "bitch" that's purportedly written by Jay-Z...
The Tea Party is a lot more than angry white dudes. It's also angry white ladies. Amanda and Samhita investigate why. Jamilah King comes on to discuss the new movie "Pariah", and why coming out should be a party. Boston...
Samhita and Amanda discuss the most recent flare-up of sexist tantrum throwing in the online atheist community. Is there a reason to believe that little kids' gender preferences are nature or nurture, or is the story more complex than that?...
Samhita and Amanda discuss some of the ugliest developments this year in both reproductive rights and sexual violence. Republicans spent 2011 losing their minds, and "Community" looks like it's going to be cancelled. But the news wasn't all bad! A...
Samhita and Amanda discuss the legacy of Christopher Hitchens. The Egyptian military cracks down on protesters with a special sadism towards women. American police continue to single young black men out for abuse in ways that tend to be routinely...
Samhita's out of town, so Katie Halper steps in to make fun of Newt Gingrich in her place. Gingrich pledges on to cheat on his wife in exchange for voter support. Andrew Breitbart suddenly claims to have developed a single...
Amanda and Samhita discuss the French approach to prostitution and how it may change, what makes online dating so bemusing, and why the people on Twitter love to make Charlie Sheen jokes while the people on Yahoo just want to...
Jenn Pozner comes on to discuss the question: Can reality TV do any good after feeding us years of rich bitches and drunken bimbos? Herman Cain reassesses his campaign in light of new allegations, this time of the consensual variety....
Samhita and Amanda give advice on how to survive your family this Thanksgiving when they badger you about still being single. Amanda Hess from GOOD tells us why the porn industry needs to cater more to women. Newt Gingrich fantasizes...
Samhita and Amanda introduce themselves, and discuss the feminist politcs of Occupy Wall St., the Herman Cain sexual harassment debacle, and Katie Roiphe's strange defense of sexual harassment in the workplace. Also, cats. There is no escaping the talk of...
