In this slightly feverish, slightly feral episode, Catharine continues on from her commentary about David King publicly calling women’s armpit hair “repulsive,” and unpacks the much bigger question underneath it:

Why are women expected to remain visually pleasing to strangers in the first place?

Catharine talks about:

• body commentary at family functions,
• fat-shaming disguised as “health,”
• the entitlement behind public ridicule,
• why shame and control get confused with concern,
• the exhausting pressure to remain aesthetically acceptable,
• and the connection she sees between everyday objectification and broader cultures of misogyny.

Also featured:

• Lawrence the camp dog,
• a rawhide providing temporary podcast stability,
• one very sick podcaster,
• and the phrase “your dick is not a divining rod,” which honestly deserves its own merch line.

This episode contains discussion of body shaming, sexual harassment, sexual assault, and misogyny.

🎙️👀 What worked? What dragged? What made you mutter “Jesus Christ, Catharine”? Tell me.

Content Note ~
This podcast gets into bodies, panic attacks, trauma, sexism, mental health, and the occasional emotional sinkhole. Please look after yourself only listen when you feel safe to engage with potentially triggering material. 
Also, I swear.

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Credits
Recorded on the lands of the Ramindjeri and Ngarrindjeri peoples.
Sovereignty never ceded.

Recorded & edited at Ridley Farm Studio by Luke Ridley
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