Is it weird that I really love talking about all the ways the formative culture of my teens screwed me up? Maybe it’s just cathartic — talking with someone else who’s spent time in the postfeminist ideological trenches, trying to unpack all of the contradictory messaging about who we should be and how we should act. Sophie Gilbert has been deep in that muck for years writing her new book, Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves, and is here to help answer your excellent questions on how all of this took root in the ‘90s, the slutty cool baby girl ideal, the weird dude raunch movies, why we don’t know how pants are supposed to fit, the abomination of Bride Wars, and much, much more. Listen and let’s navigate all this accumulated sludge together.
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Show Notes:
We’re currently looking for your questions for future episodes about:
Evangelical Summer Camp, past and present
The intersection of technology and parenting (especially how mothers are surveilled)
REGIONAL ACCENTS!!!! (We have a accent/dialect expert as co-host!)
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For this week’s discussion: What cultural sludge of the ‘90s and 2000s did this bring up for you?
