The Sleepover Club: The Death Of Nuance, Why Being 'Chronically Online' Gives You Brain Worms, And The Era of Anti-Intellectualism

The Sleepover Club: The Death Of Nuance, Why Being 'Chronically Online' Gives You Brain Worms, And The Era of Anti-Intellectualism

Anti intellectualism is having a moment. Express an opinion online and they'll be at least five people in your mentions telling you that you're wrong. Maybe you spend your morning drinking coffee with your partner, causing uproar from those who have to be at work in the early hours. Perhaps you hate Marvel films, or dare to prefer one type of bread over another. But is our inability to contextualise the posts we see a form of anti-intellectualism? Are the binaries of 'high' and 'low' culture changing? And should we just let people enjoy things? This week Ione and Eden are discussing whether this constant dumbing down of discourse, art, and everything in between is more insidious than it may seem.


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The Sleepover Club: Why Can't We Quit Our Obsession With It Girls?

The Sleepover Club: Why Can't We Quit Our Obsession With It Girls?

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The Sleepover Club: Chloe Cherry aka Euphoria’s Faye On Being TV's Most Lovable Bimbo (Should We All Be Bimbos? Part Two)

The Sleepover Club: Chloe Cherry aka Euphoria’s Faye On Being TV's Most Lovable Bimbo (Should We All Be Bimbos? Part Two)

In this special bonus instalment of the podcast, we're joined by the one and only Chloe Cherry, aka Faye from Euphoria! Chloe sits down with Ione and Gina to discuss her role on the most talked about ...

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The Sleepover Club: What The Hell Is A Vibe Shift?

The Sleepover Club: What The Hell Is A Vibe Shift?

It's been practically impossible to move for the last two weeks without being told about 'the vibe shift'. We've all heard its coming, but what does it even mean? This week on The Sleepover Club Ione ...

28 Feb 202227min

The Sleepover Club: Should We All Be Bimbos? Part One

The Sleepover Club: Should We All Be Bimbos? Part One

The internet has decided: the bimbo is back. But what does a return to bimboism mean for feminism? Is it just a regression into outdated stereotypes, or a reclamation of a set of aesthetic codes that ...

21 Feb 202227min

The Sleepover Club: Kardashian Kolloquium On Why We Can't Stop Keeping Up With The Kardashians

The Sleepover Club: Kardashian Kolloquium On Why We Can't Stop Keeping Up With The Kardashians

From Kimye's divorce, to the new Hulu show, North's TikTok and Kourtney's emo phase, whether you love to hate them or can't help but being obsessed with them, not a week goes by where we don't hear fr...

14 Feb 202236min

The Sleepover Club: The Return Of The Trad Wife

The Sleepover Club: The Return Of The Trad Wife

Today, we are seeing more and more discourse about the rise of the trad (traditional) wife, with the gorls on Tiktok and Instagram romanticising having a family, being a wife, sundresses and staying a...

7 Feb 202224min

The Sleepover Club: The 'Toxic' Femininity Deep Dive Part Two - The Emergence Of 'Dissociative Feminism'

The Sleepover Club: The 'Toxic' Femininity Deep Dive Part Two - The Emergence Of 'Dissociative Feminism'

It's part two of the 'toxic' women deep dive! This week we're discussing the backlash against the 'evil' women genre and how the TikTok girlies are catapulting our obsession with these characters into...

31 Jan 202224min

The Sleepover Club: The 'Toxic' Femininity Deep Dive Part One - Why We Love 'Evil' Women

The Sleepover Club: The 'Toxic' Femininity Deep Dive Part One - Why We Love 'Evil' Women

'Evil' women are everywhere, from on our screens, to between the pages of the books we read, and across our feeds in the form of memes. The discourse as to whether these characters are idol worthy, or...

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