In the first instalment of our poignant, hard-hitting series: Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss; Hannah and Maia breakdown "gaslight" and its terrible evolution. From a 1944 psycho-thriller starring Ingrid Bergman about a woman being tormented by her greedy husband, to a catchall for anytime anyone is ever unfriendly to us - the term "gaslight" is now a spectre of what it used to be. In this little series we ask - is this a natural linguistic evolution, or is the cultural abstraction of these words more damaging than we think?

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SOURCES:

Caleb Madison “Are You Using Gaslight Correctly?” (2022), The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/04/are-you-using-gaslight-correctly/629522/

Ella Feldman, “‘Gaslighting’ Is Merriam Webster’s Word of the Year”, (2022) Smithsonian Magazine https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/gaslighting-merriam-webster-word-of-the-year-180981203/

Paige L. Sweet, “The Sociology of Gaslighting” (2019), American Sociological Review https://www.jstor.org/stable/48602118

Daniel Kurtzleben, “When Republicans Attack ‘Cancel Culture’ What Does It Mean?" (2021), NPR https://www.npr.org/2021/02/10/965815679/is-cancel-culture-the-future-of-the-gop

Ben Zimmer (2017) https://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2017-January/145910.html

Julie Beck, “The Concept Creep of Emotional Labor” (2018), The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/11/arlie-hochschild-housework-isnt-emotional-labor/576637/

"What is Gaslighting?”, National Domestic Violence Hotline https://www.thehotline.org/resources/what-is-gaslighting/

Chi Luu, “Do You Even Language, Bro? Understanding Why Nouns Become Verbs” (2016), JSTOR Daily https://daily.jstor.org/in-which-we-science-why-nouns-become-verbs-because-language/

Hannah and Maia discuss the post-woke, irony-poisoned community of Manhattan's lower east side - also known as Dimes Square. These podcasters (Red Scare, Chapo Trap House, Cum Town, and Wet Brain), filmmakers, literary ingenues, and bloggers have come together to be as provocative as possible. But is irony-poisoning just a long, slow descent into nihilism? And is nihilism just a lazy river into the bleak world of the alt-right? Listen to find out! 

**Correction**: The charges against Kyle Rittenhouse of curfew violation and unlawful possession of a firearm were *dismissed by the judge prior to jury deliberation. He was acquitted by the jury on all other charges. 

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SOURCES:

Nellie Bowles, “The Pied Pipers of the Dirtbag Left Want to Lead Everyone to Bernie Sanders” The New York Times (2020).

Mike Crumplar, “My Own Dimes Square Fascist Humiliation Ritual” Substack (2022).

Ariel Davis, “New York’s Hottest Club Is the Catholic Church” The New York Times (2022).

Andrew Marantz, “The Post-Dirtbag Left” The New Yorker (2021).

Sylvie McNamara, “Red Scare’s Real Offense Is Nihilism” Podcast Review (2018).

“Being pro-ana even ironically is problematic” Reddit (2019).

https://www.reddit.com/r/redscarepod/comments/bzu1lm/being_proana_even_ironically_is_problematic/

“I’m a girl who’s fat and ugly, can I still like red scare?” Reddit (2019).

https://www.reddit.com/r/redscarepod/comments/cfzydp/im_a_girl_whos_fat_and_ugly_can_i_still_like_red/

Hannah and Maia unpack the horrors of the feminist fashion world and its posterchild, Leandra Medine (founder of Man Repeller). Was Man Repeller's demise really a death rattle for the girlboss, post-feminism era? Or was this just a blip in the timeline? Join us as we digress about Moonlight v. La La Land, whether emo and Abercrombie could ever be bedfellows, 5000 different pronunciations of Tavi Gevinson's name (and the Dhoom movies), and a fun game of spot the difference with a pair black fishnet tights.

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Claire Lampen, “Upper East Sider Realizes She’s Privileged”, The Cut (2021)

https://www.thecut.com/2021/08/leandra-medine-says-she-always-thought-she-was-poor.html

Leandra M. Cohen, “Where We Go From Here: A Message for the MR Commnunity”, Repeller (2020) https://repeller.com/man-repeller-open-letter/

“The Tanning of America pt. 1”, The Cutting Room Floor (2021)

Rebecca Jennings, “The racial reckoning in women’s media”, Vox (2020) https://www.vox.com/the-goods/21287045/refinery29-black-employees-man-repeller-cosmopolitan-who-what-wear-vogue

Leandra M. Cohen “I Owe You Better: A Commitment to the Future”, Repeller (2020)

https://repeller.com/i-owe-you-better-a-commitment-to-the-future/

Leandra M. Cohen “What I Wish I Knew When I Got Married” Repeller (2017)

https://repeller.com/getting-married-advice/

Rachel Tashjian, “What Happened to Man Repeller?, GQ (2020) https://www.gq.com/story/what-happened-to-man-repeller

Meredith Galante, “How A 22-Year-Old Blogger Wound Up On The Runway At New York Fashion Week”, Insider (2011) https://www.businessinsider.com/man-repeller-leandra-medine-blogger-fashion-2011-9

Benjamin Wallace, “What’s So Alluring About a Woman Known as Man Repeller?”, The Cut (2014) https://www.thecut.com/2014/02/man-repeller-leandra-medine-profile.html

Who watches the watchdog? Hannah and Maia discuss the weird evolution of Diet Prada, and whether or not it can (or needs to) adhere to a code of ethics in the lawless wasteland that is social media. Brief digressions include a fight that Maia got into (scrap!), the micro-celebs you'll find at Dumbo House, and a marvellous synchronized performance of the infamous "cerulean" monologue from The Devil Wears Prada.

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Sources:

Randi Bergman, “Has the Time Come to Critique Diet Prada?” Elle (2021).

https://www.ellecanada.com/culture/society/has-the-time-come-to-critique-diet-prada

Maureen O’Connor, “The Trials of Diet Prada” Vanity Fair (2021).

https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2021/09/diet-prada-roasting-the-runway

Rachel Tashjian, “In Fashion, Who Will Cancel the Cancelers?” GQ (2020).

https://www.gq.com/story/diet-prada-kanye

Ryan J. Thomas & Teri Finneman, “Who watches the watchdogs?: British newspaper metadiscourse on the Leveson Inquiry” Journalism Studies, vol 15, no. 2 (2014).

Hannah and Maia try to make sense of the Rorschach test that is "Who is the Bad Art Friend?". Is the literary beef between Dawn and Sonya actually as juicy and layered as Twitter made it out to be? Or it it simply another case of what Safy Hallan Farah calls, "the true crime-ization of low stakes interpersonal drama"?  Also, would Maia give Hannah her kidney? Let's find out!

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Sources:

Robert Kolker, "Who Is the Bad Art Friend?", The New York Times (2021) 

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/05/magazine/dorland-v-larson.html

Robert Kolker, "How Bad Art Friend Became Twitter's Favorite Parlor Game", The New York Times (2021)

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/20/insider/bad-art-friend-twitter.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur

Erin Vanderhoof, "Why Facebook May Be the True 'Bad Art Friend'", Vanity Fair (2021)

https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2021/10/facebook-who-is-the-bad-art-friend

Michael Hobbes, "Identifying The Bad Art Friend is Easy", (2021)

https://michaelhobbes.substack.com/p/identifying-the-bad-art-friend-is

Caleb was a very bad boy. But did we have to John Tucker him x 1 million? Hannah and Maia get personal about life in the trenches of online dating, and whether or not doxxing is a justified means to a feminist end.

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Sources:

Camille Cobb and Tadayoshi Kohno, “How Public Is My Private Life? Privacy in Online Dating” Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on World Wide Web, (2017).

Katie Notopolous, “Caleb From West Elm Is Bad At Dating But Probably Didn't Deserve Being Pushed Through The TikTok Meat Grinder” Buzzfeed News (2022).

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/caleb-from-west-elm-meme

Is it possible to be both scammer and scammed? Hannah and Maia take a stab at the Rube Goldberg Machine that is Caroline Calloway's brilliant, chaotic mind. Is she actually staying one step ahead of the haters, or is she really just two steps behind? Let's talk about it.

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Sources:

Kayleigh Donaldson, "The Curious Case of Caroline Calloway", Pajba, 2019 https://www.pajiba.com/web_culture/the-case-of-caroline-calloway-and-her-creativity-workshop-tour.php

Natalie Beach, "I Was Caroline Calloway", The Cut (2019) https://www.thecut.com/2019/09/the-story-of-caroline-calloway-and-her-ghostwriter-natalie.html 

Bianca London, “American student's fairytale life in Cambridge enchants Instagram: 300,000 people following student's photos of carefree days of dreaming spires, black-tie balls and Champagne on the river” The Daily Mail (2015) https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3010757/US-student-s-enchanting-Instagram-photos-reveal-fairytale-life-Cambridge.htm

It's time to talk about what happened to Lindsay Ellis. In this episode we do a deep dive into Twitter psychology, confirmation bias, and the sad sad phenomenon that is "getting woman'd".

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SOURCES:

Rayne Fisher-Quann, "What does it mean to get 'woman'd'?" i-D (2022).

https://i-d.vice.com/en/article/y3pv5k/what-does-it-mean-to-get-womand

Has Taylor Swift orchestrated an clever conspiracy about her sexuality? Hannah and Maia discuss the fascinating war of the "Gaylors", and accusations of queerbaiting amongst the Taylor Swift fandom.

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Sources:

Christobel Hastings, “How Lavender became a symbol of LGBTQ resistance”, CNN, (2020) 

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/lgbtq-lavender-symbolism-pride/index.html

Willa Paskin, “The Case of the Fractured Fandom”, Slate (2018)

https://slate.com/culture/2018/06/the-johnlock-conspiracy-sherlock-fans-disagree-with-the-shows-creators-about-holmes-and-watsons-relationship.html

J. Derrick, S. Gabriel, K. Hugenberg, “Social surrogacy: How favored television programs provide the experience of belonging” Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, (2008)

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/223692761_Social_surrogacy_How_favored_television_programs_provide_the_experience_of_belonging

Hannah and Maia discuss the end of nuance, and feeling betrayed by Wife Guys™. 

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Sources:

Seth Abramovitch, “Why Are the Try Guys So Angry? Try Jeopardizing $6M a Year in Clicks” Hollywood Reporter (2022).

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/try-guys-scandal-ned-fulmer-eugene-lee-yang-6-million-1235233823/

Nunn and Biressi, “‘A trust betrayed’: celebrity and the work of emotion”, Celebrity Studies, vol.1, (2010).

Shannon Keating, “Why Are We Still So Scandalized by Cheating? What our recent obsession with infidelity reveals about us” The Cut, (2022).

https://www.thecut.com/2022/10/why-are-we-still-so-scandalized-by-cheating.html

Further Reading:

Willy Staley, “The Try Guys and the Prison of Online Fame” The New York Times (2022).

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/25/magazine/try-guys-internet-fame.html?auth=login-google1tap&login=google1tap