In Bed With The Right16 Des 2025

Episode 113: The 2025 Daytime Cursties (with Michael Hobbes)

It's cold outside, the Holidays are here, and you know what that means: It's Cursed-Discourse Awards-Season, motherf@ckers! Not-even-close-to-live from a theatre miles away from the Dolby Theater, it's the Third Annual Cursties!!! For the third year in a row, Moira, Adrian and special guest Michael Hobbes give out awards for the most cursed discourses around sex and gender for 2025. Problem is: we've dealt with so many cursed discourses around sex and gender in 2025, and pretty much all cursed discourses seem to have with gender panic these days. And In Bed with the Right has covered so so so so many of them!

So we decided to narrow our noms to one particular genre of cursedness this year, and to present awards for ... drumroll ... achievements in anti-wokeness.! From queer tieflings to kids getting coddled in the 4th dimension, from socialist mayors (and not the one you're thinking of!) to French people teaching Americans how to islamophobia, to the world's creepiest Blue Man Group, this one has something for everybody!

Some links to articles we mention:

-- Matt Bernstein's in-depth episode on the long dark road of Debra Messing can be found here

-- Adrian's New Republic article about a row over "islamogauchisme" in France can be found here

-- Michele Goodwin's interview with Jess Michaels as part of her series Surviving Epstein can be found here

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