Summary
Erin, Grace, and Kiran break down the news, starting with a study that finds that the number of women working in TV dropped last year. Then, Alyssa stops by to update us about the Kavanaugh hearings. Is there a word that means feeling both dreary and fired up? Why is getting birth control still so hard? Is Norm MacDonald America’s meanest Canadian? Find this out and more on this week’s Hysteria.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to hysteria I'm |
| 0:18.4 | Welcome to Hysteria. I'm Aaron Ryan Grace Parras with me this week. Hi, great. Hi, what's up? I'm snapping today. I don't know why. What? That's you. And we've got Kirund Deal. |
| 0:22.8 | Hello. |
| 0:23.8 | This week, Kerendel and Grace Parra are here to talk about how there are actually fewer |
| 0:35.8 | women talking on TV this year than there were last year, and why getting birth control |
| 0:40.4 | is still such production in 2018. I'm also joined by |
| 0:43.3 | Alyssa Master Monaco to discuss the ongoing goddamn travesty that is the |
| 0:46.9 | Kavanaugh confirmation process. We've also got this week in Sari and the |
| 0:50.4 | Hills will die on. |
| 1:02.0 | I want to get into it because there's a lot to tackle, there's a lot to red rover. I don't know. We got to wrangle it. We got to wrangle it. |
| 1:04.4 | G gotta wrangle this baby. So there's a bunch of news this week so we're just going to kind of get to it. |
| 1:08.9 | First, earlier this week I was reading a report out about women in TV. |
| 1:14.1 | So first of all, congratulations. |
| 1:16.6 | We did it. |
| 1:17.6 | We won feminism. |
| 1:18.6 | Yes. |
| 1:19.6 | This past year, Latina speaking characters on TV have reached an all-time high of 7%. |
| 1:26.4 | Grace doesn't have any words because she is Latina. |
| 1:31.8 | But this isn't the television. You can talk here. |
| 1:35.0 | Yeah, you can talk. Oh, that's right. Okay. Right. Jesus good God Christ. |
| 1:40.0 | Yeah, 7% of female roles are Latino, which means that it's like 2.8% of all roles. |
| 1:46.0 | And that's where the good news stops, that it was a high at 7%. |
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