A Plunge Into The Body Politics and Choice Feminism of An Instagram Age

The High Low

Society & Culture

4.8 • 9.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2020

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Doll's Polls is back, with a strange fact about what heterosexual women most look for, in a man. A handsome face? A tight tush? Nope -- quite frankly, you'll never guess. We also discuss a beautiful ode from a coupled-up woman to her single friends, Matt Haig's new book about finding hope in the lives you could have lived, and a couple of our favourite comedy shows by women.

And - deep breath - we dive into the issues raised by a personal essay penned by the model and actor Emily Ratajkowski, that blew up certain parts of the internet this week, about who owns a public image. We address women's bodies and the ethics of sharing in the age of Instagram, with a side order of choice feminism. You can share your thoughts with us via e-mail -- we're sure you'll have a few.

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Links

Emily Ratajkowski on reclaiming her own image, for New York magazine https://www.thecut.com/article/emily-ratajkowski-owning-my-image-essay.html

The Emily Ratajkowski effect, by Haley Nahman for her Maybe Baby newsletter https://haleynahman.substack.com/p/24-the-cult-of-emily-ratajkowski

The Duchess, on Netflix

RBG, on Netflix

Ruth Bader Ginsberg's death means pro-choicers have a fight on their hands, by Zoe Williams for The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/22/ruth-bader-ginsburg-pro-choicers-abortion-us-presidential-election

Tracks, on BBC Sounds

The Midnight Library, by Matt Haig, out now

This Way Up on All4

Seven Pledges to My Single Friends by Caroline O’Donoghue https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/arid-40048532.html

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0:47.2	Welcome to the Highloh, the weekly conversation between Dolly Olderton and Pandora Sykes.
0:53.2	Hello darkness, my old friend. Oh, it's a bit of a spicy entry. I want to begin every single
1:03.2	episode like that and I haven't told you this, but I've wanted to for a year. Why?
1:10.7	No, but I told you now, but it's always in my head as a greeting. Oh, that's not good.
1:16.2	No, probably some of my friends. No, just concentrate on the my old friend, but
1:23.0	okay, thank you, high old friend. I've got a Dolly's Pulse for you, Panda. It's been a while.
1:29.4	It hasn't been a while, please. I haven't been sent any recently, actually.
1:34.5	I think there's just so there's so little new data to collect, all the new data to collect
1:40.9	on pandemic life of, oh, people are drinking more, people are whanking more, people are shoving
1:46.5	household items up their arsehole. I just think that that's all been, they've exhausted it,
1:52.5	so fully. So there's not been any new press releases, but I did get one this week.
1:57.6	The majority of British women, 51%, believe what is more important than a handsome face.
2:06.1	I was trying to work out what what was, but I say, I know, I realise what you're doing now,
2:10.0	you're asking me. 51%, more important than a handsome face. I feel like we're on family
2:20.4	fortunes now. A nice butt, a loaded wallet, a shapely foot, a car. No, but this is all very
2:30.0	telling of your predilections, Pandora, and the battle of them are actually in there. I mean,
2:37.3	I love a shapely foot. No, the answer is a tidy bedroom. I hope you're more concerned about the
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