A Well-Dressed Monster is Still a Monster

Call Your Girlfriend

Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow

Society & Culture

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Elizabeth Warren's DNA test woes. (Psst: race is a social construct and tribal membership is not granted by chromosomes.) Practical Magic does not hold up. Hocus Pocus does. Melania's colonial cosplay. A brief consideration of fashion we loved from monsters in the Cheeto administration. Plus, Taylor and Kanye's role reversal.

Reading List:

Lizzie Warren

Practical Magic + the curse of heterosexuality (good alternative: Hocus Pocus)

Bette Midler’s offensive tweet

Melania, most bullied person in the world, is into colonial cosplay

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Call Your Girlfriend!
0:02.0	A podcast for long-distance festies everywhere.
0:04.7	I'm Amina Tussaud, and I'm Ann Friedman.
0:08.3	On this week's agenda, Elizabeth Warren's
0:11.2	terrible, horrible, no good, very bad DNA test decision.
0:15.1	Practical magic and our practical questions about it.
0:18.5	Melania, her looks, and how a well-dressed monster is still a monster,
0:23.2	plus Taylor and Kanye's Roll Roversal.
0:30.0	Call your girl friend.
0:33.6	Time you had the talk.
0:37.6	Give your reasons.
0:41.3	Say it's not her fault.
0:45.2	Ready you just met somebody new.
0:51.5	Coming at you live from Garnville, California.
0:54.9	Coming at you live from one giant bed,
0:57.5	where we are like sitting together and with Gina with three laptops and
1:01.5	recording equipment and no one is even touching.
1:03.8	This bed is so lit, but you know what else is lit?
1:07.2	Is Gina's pattern clashing right now is epic?
1:11.3	Iconic. Not even the socks.
1:14.1	Slows start. We have so much to talk about today.
1:17.6	Girl. Yeah, I mean the first thing being we're about to go on tour.
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