Feminists Without Mystique

We discuss Bo Burnham's stunning, existential Netflix film, INSIDE.  We see you: Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin, UNC Chapel Hill, Sutton Stracke, Nikki Haley, unruly flight passengers, Bloomberg article on...

2 Juni 20211h 38min

Last week the Supreme Court announced it will hear Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a case that poses a direct challenge to the nearly 50 year precedent of Roe vs Wade. With the new conse...

26 Maj 20211h 27min

Human Rights Watch recently released a report that "Abusive Israeli Policies Constitute Crimes of Apartheid, Persecution." We discuss the tragic/frustrating/unconscionable violence in Israel and Pales...

19 Maj 20211h 13min

The sad news of John Mulaney's divorce prompts us to discuss why his personal life (and Ben and J. Lo and Bill and Melinda etc...) are so fascinating to us. It's none of our business! Why are we so in...

12 Maj 20211h 11min

We begin by discussing the relatable, disturbing viral Tik Tok video of a teenage girl being harassed by a creepy man, which led us to discuss the Netflix film Cuties (2020, d. Maïmouna Doucouré) and ...

5 Maj 20211h 16min

Recent research indicates that 52% of adolescent girls use filters every day and 80% have used an app to change their appearance before the age of 13! Shaken by this and other statistics Lizzo cited o...

28 Apr 20211h 19min

We discuss today's verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial. Today George Floyd's family got accountability, a rare thing when challenging police in the court system, but accountability ≠ justice. There's s...

21 Apr 20211h 29min

We briefly discuss the latest murder of an unarmed black man (Daunte Wright) at the hands of the police, and then process the latest grotesque misdeeds of Congressman Matt Gaetz, who is now under inve...

14 Apr 20211h 8min