Caitlin Moran on strident feminism, giddy optimism, and riotous laughter

Nerdette

Greta Johnsen

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4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2015

⏱️ 40 minutes

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This brilliant British columnist is incisive, tenacious, inspiring, and hilariously fun. Caitlin Moran talks with us about her definition of feminism, why cynicism is the worst, and how the most effective tool against patriarchal nonsense is subversive laughter. Because everyone--even Britain's filthiest feminist--is a little nerdy about something.

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0:13.6	Hello from W be easy in Chicago, I'm Greta Johnson.
0:19.5	And I'm Tricia Boba.
0:20.5	And this is Nurdett, the show where we bring you conversations
0:23.2	with artists, scientists, and authors.
0:25.2	It's not about what you love.
0:26.6	It's about how much you love it.
0:29.3	And our guests this week exemplifies
0:31.0	what happens when you throw caution to the wind and let your
0:33.4	enthusiasm for little things big things saucy things yes saucy things when you let
0:39.0	enthusiasm for all those things in life run rampant.
0:42.3	Catlin Moran is as Leslie note my All those things in life run rampant.
0:42.6	Catlin Moran is, as Leslie Nope might say,
0:45.5	a beautiful, talented, brilliant, powerful muscocks.
0:48.2	I have officially divided my life into two parts
0:50.8	before Catlin Moran and after Cat Caitlin. This strident feminist
0:54.8	and her writing will change your life. She's sort of like the UK's answer to
0:58.4	Tina Fay and Lena Dunnam and Chelsea handler all wrapped into one. We talk with the author and columnist about her new book,
1:04.6	the definition of feminism,
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