RedFem

The backlash to sexual liberalism is here. Using Youtuber Logan Paul's recent experience of online trolling that has broken the internet, this episode discusses the shift from Millennial 'sex positivity' to its reversal now captivating Gen-Z, with women's value measured by their sexual discretion, rather than how sexually available they are (and how this is a wider contextual shift from modern leftwing patriarchy to traditional rightwing patriarchy). That includes the end of the concept 'slut shaming' and the new incredibility of the 'slut walks' only 10 years ago. This turn is in part due to the popularity of Red Pill online content that draws on neuroscience, evolutionary psychology, and mysticism. A highly critical appraisal of the worth of neuroscience and evolution in regard to psychology forms the mid-section of this episode. That leads to a discussion of this summer's Adam22 'cuck porn' incident and how turning wives and girlfriends into capital through digital pimping is becoming considered obscene and a way for even a rich or famous man to fail and become a 'sexual loser'.

The episode ends with exploring the meaninglessness of the term 'pretty', and yet more discussion of British culture, specifically the inability to take compliments and the knee-jerk reaction of considering any reference to sex as comical.

Would we Russia 1917 the Royals? Find out! This episode imagines the inner life of the British Royal Family, with speculation about its members, their marriages, and merges a sex-based and class-based critique of the aristocracy in Britain. We speculate that the inner Royals are quite miserable, consider that perhaps Charles and Camilla are an example of an epic 'love story', and comment on Prince Harry's obvious oedipal behaviour via Freud's theory of the compulsion to repeat. Includes wider discussion about the rumour that posh men are ineffective lovers, the British cultural adoration for queuing,  and the inner Protestant wish to be punished by nanny. The episode ends with a call for Princess Anne to ascend the throne and Hannah exposes Jen's shocking deviation away from communism by sympathetically watching the Queen's funeral.

We review Greta Gerwig's new film, Barbie, and discuss its themes and representations. That includes the "Alan" men who don't do well in patriarchy, Ti Grace Atkinson's structural model of lesbians as rebels, Daily Wire commentator Michael Knowles interestingly correct take on the film, and the vital question of whether Margot Robbie is mid? We also discuss women wanting to be possessed by men, Jen's crush on Jodie Foster, decontructive comedy, Amy Schumer as Barbie, and more.

WARNING: This episode includes spoilers.

Is collective suffering worse than private suffering? i.e what would cause the greatest suffering for women, a status as public property or private property? We discuss traditional vs. modern patriarchy, and consider the contemporary far-Left's vision for women as achieving liberation through surrogacy, prostitution, and transgenderism. Later contrasting that with Sharia (women as private property) and also conservative men's understanding of women as happiest if wives, homemakers, and mothers. The episode includes a section on the most famous woman of the Russian Revolution, Alexandra Kollontai, her anti-feminism, and a life serially taking Ls from leftist men. We end with how women on the political right are often 'girl bosses', whilst leftwing women contrastingly submissive, and the impossibility of interrupting a Mormon woman.

Is Trad, short for traditionalism, the new punk? If the Left are now known for their policing, liberalism, and infantilism, how could rejecting that not be appealing? If HR departments are increasingly dominated by liberal ideology, and the Left have not stepped up as todays rebels, then it is traditionally rightwing ideas that can start to fill that void and offer opposition. In a climate where home ownership and raising children becomes increasingly economically unaffordable for young people, marriage and kids becomes a flex of wealth and success. Rejecting porn in favour of traditional relationships, going to church, owning a property within a natural setting, and the permanent values attached to these, offer an alternative to meaningless sex, relentless commodity acquisition, chaotic market free fall, and the superficialness of the internet. But can Trad really be punk when it proposes a return to the past and essentially a renewed conservatism? Listen and decide!

Jen tells the story of the 'racist kinky chair' that split a socialist group, a premonition of how the declining and dilapidated far-Left would increasingly operate in the Global North. Episode also features discussion of Lacan's famous line 'there is no such thing as a sexual relationship', Butler's justification of pornography through deconstructionism, misunderstandings of Wittig's 'lesbians aren't women', and how polyamory results in treating sexual partners like products. We finish on the alienation present in transgenderism and inside the neoliberal workplace, where people are treated as subjects to be commodified to the greatest extent possible.

On the back of International Non-Binary Peoples Day we discuss what a nonsense non-binary is and how it essentially functions as an attempt at retreat from womanhood (female adulthood) for many girls and young women, leaving in its wake the potential dismantling of women's rights for all. Episode includes debunking the existence of gender identity at all, how we are already seeing a return to 'True Trans' by the Transgender lobby after being given an inch and taking a mile, plus how demanding other people use pronouns is embarrassing and cringe.

In this episode we tell the stories of how we gradually hit 'peak Trans' (reaching 'peak Trans' or 'peaking' refers to realising that the liberal media narrative around Transgenderism is false). This is told from a perspective as lesbians and activists on the socialist far-Left.

We discuss the emergence of Traditionalism and its surge in popularity amongst Gen Z. In a world of porn, online dating, cost of living crisis, and increasing alienation, why are young people turning to traditional catholicism, romanticising feudalism, and rejecting democracy in favour of monarch rule? We go over Trad's aspirations (marriage and children), its sexual politics (please, no more porn!) and other rising subgroups of volcels (voluntary celibates), femcels (women deciding to be celibate), and incels (involuntary celebrates) that are each responses to the current landscape of dating app merry-go-rounds, normalisation of BDSM, and the downturn in privacy and adult independence. Traditional sexual politics is seen as the antidote to these, with women turning to conservative dating apps like The Right Stuff to find a man who isn't interested in a polycule or calling himself a woman. 

The latter third of the episode concerns what Marx actually meant by 'abolishing the family' and the liberal Left's twisted version of it that promotes surrogacy, brothels, sterilising gender non-conforming children, and, of course, unbridled access to violent porn. We end on Sophie Lewis (author of Full Surrogacy Now) and her call for a caste of women who will be sexually exploited by all - a mirror of the call for a caste of women in prostitution. Final remarks are on Lewis's claim that people can experience 'queer love' with octopi (perhaps there will be a squid on the Pride flag soon).

This episode begins with a focus on what Pride was, the marketing disasters of Bud Light and Target, and why the concept of 'chosen family', recently endorsed by high street chain Primark, is stupid. Why are companies invested in supporting the increase of letters in the LGBTQA+ alphabet soup?  We argue there is a corporate interest in promoting the continual extension of LGBTQA+ because it builds a greater market to sell Pride affiliated products to - the more straight people who identify in expands the 'rainbow demographic' of buyers. We also discuss the events of Pride Month, specifically the proposed reforming of the UK Equality Act to insert 'biological' in front of 'sex' so it's harder to conflate sex with gender identity. Jen tells the story of Labour MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle in her kitchen in relation to his contribution in parliament against emboldening these sex-based provisions in law. Finally, we comment on the break slamming u-turn of Melbourne University over the last 4 weeks and the irony of targeting lesbian academic Holly Lawford-Smith during Pride Month.