This episode examines how the Frankfurt School's critical theory can illuminate the entwinement of capitalism with gender and racial inequality. It poses questions about whether these inequalities are structural necessities or historically flexible, exploring concepts like the culture industry's role in reinforcing stereotypes and how false needs manipulate desires. The text further analyzes how instrumental rationality can embed discrimination within institutions and why pathological normalcy leads to the acceptance of oppression. Finally, it considers how one-dimensionality limits resistance to these inequalities within capitalist societies.