The Disagreement About Female Composers

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I think that's a sort of you know white male demographic particularly and not only before you know I get any angry tweets but where TV exams were made for them. Despite us being 51% of the population we're used to everything bit, so sometimes people go oh women I don't like female comedians because they only talk about women's stuff. Sean Walsh had a lovely lovely line he said once which was along the lines of he said um people think that female comics just talk about their periods all the time. He said do you think that male comics wouldn't mention it if they bled out of their dicks five days a month Oh we'd hear so much about itdo you know what

Welcome to the Wintering Sessions with Katherine May.

This week Katherine chats to Angela Barnes, podcaster, comedian and regular panel guest on Mock The Week (and much more!).

Angela Barnes has zero tolerance for anyone reassuring her that she's pretty - it talks over her lived experience, and does nothing to change her self-perception. Here, she discusses living with Persistent Depressive Disorder, which has made her whole life feel like the drizzly English climate, but which has also made her more able than most to endure the hard-knocks life of a stand-up comedian.

A very cheerful chat which always zeroes in on the important points with lazer focus, picking up on where Angela is in the greater pandemic situation, working with her PDD, building daily frameworks, having a comedy tribe which normalizes certain behaviours and actions, fear of rejection, CBT, entitlement, TV, the perils and - well, perils of social media, and the notion of beauty on a grand scale.

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