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please make sure to like, rate, subscribe and review. Do we have any reviews, Ione? We do. This is

five stars from Shona two free two in the UK. We'd highly recommend. I love how Gina and Ioni

take pop culture topics often seen as superfluous. Yeah? Yeah. Okay. But contextualize them as influential to the wider political landscape. Although I don't always agree of everything they say, it's great to have my opinions challenged by such eloquent hosts. Thank you. Oh, that's beautiful. That is lovely. Thank you. And then Spotify,ura moseley says should be compulsory listening

tick emoji thank you for covering this and it's always being passionate and honest and then oh

there's no way fc pq capital t x lowercase r one two three says thank you wonderful app I was also thinking while reading discourse how much people are focusing on the boys

as a reaction to what they perceive to be feminist wins, to be honest, this is about our

adolescence episode.

Like they think feminists have had their time and now it's time to talk about the boys

in a way which appears feminist at first.

We literally see the dad cry more than we see the poor girl who was killed. And yet I want boys to be careful, but I don't pretend that misogyny is something which is done to someone without consent. Exactly. Talent. Thank you. I love the discourse and people chime in with their own bits. In the comments section. Yeah, especially the Spotify ones. People get really deep in there.

Yeah, it's true. Um, so today we're talking about something, some Twitter discourse.

Yes, you said you were awake at like 2 a.m. just getting deep into a...

Yeah, I haven't been sleeping at all this week. Um, but I feel like it's just something that

comes back around all the time, like every couple of weeks basically, not weeks, maybe a couple of months. But I feel like it's just something that comes back around all the time,

like every couple of weeks basically, not weeks, maybe a couple of months. But it's like growing

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