Best Of: Equity In Sports / 'Fleishman Is In Trouble' Creator
Fresh Air
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4.3 • 36.1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Also, Taffy Brodesser-Akner, creator, writer and showrunner of FX's series Fleishman Is In Trouble on Hulu talks about divorce, middle age, and dating apps.
Justin Chang reviews the critically acclaimed film No Bears by Iranian director Jafar Panahi. Not long after the film was completed, Panahi was sentenced to six years in prison.
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| 0:00.0 | From WHY in Philadelphia, this is Fresh Air Weekend. |
| 0:04.4 | I'm Dave Davies in for Terry Gross. |
| 0:07.3 | Equal sports opportunities for women was mandated 50 years ago by Title IX legislation. |
| 0:13.2 | Today Champion Runner Laura Fleshman explains why getting access to a sports world built |
| 0:17.7 | by men, for men and boys, isn't working for girls and women. |
| 0:22.4 | Her book Good for a Girl is a feminist critique of the sports world and a memoir about her own |
| 0:27.6 | running career. |
| 0:29.4 | Also Taffy Brodyser-Actor, creator, writer and showrunner of the series Fleshman is in |
| 0:34.3 | trouble. |
| 0:35.3 | Brodyser-Actor adapted the show from her best-selling novel of the same name. |
| 0:40.2 | Fleshman is in trouble is about divorce, middle-age, and dating apps. |
| 0:44.6 | And Justin Chang reviews the critically acclaimed film No Bears by Iranian director Jaffa Panahi. |
| 0:51.0 | Not long after the film was completed, Panahi was sentenced to six years in prison. |
| 0:56.1 | It's coming up on Fresh Air Weekend. |
| 1:02.4 | This is Fresh Air Weekend. |
| 1:03.4 | I'm Dave Davies in for Terry Gross. |
| 1:06.6 | Terry has today's first interview. |
| 1:08.0 | I'll let her introduce it. |
| 1:10.4 | My guest Champion Distance Runner Laura Fleshman is now a coach and activist working |
| 1:16.2 | to reform the sports world to recognize the differences in male and female bodies. |
| 1:21.4 | She wants to stop framing female puberty as a threat to performance, which results in |
| 1:25.8 | practices that lead girls to become anorexic and stop menstruating, disrupting the hormonal |
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