Hi, I'm Alyssa Malano, and this is Sorry Not Sorry. So, J.D. Vance made some news recently when he decried childless cat ladies as the

downfall of America. And while that's clearly a ridiculous statement on its face, it does cut to something true in our culture. Our guest this week, Derese Schechter, is a member of the Alliance for Child Free Voters, which is a nonpartisan coalition fighting for visibility and policy priorities for people without children.

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Don't mess with the cat ladies, a comment made by Donald Trump's running mate,

J.D. Vance has struck a nerve across the country.

We're effectively run in this country, via the Democrats,

via our corporate oligarchs, by a bunch of childless cat ladies.

Whether or not to have children, it's a topic these young minds discuss and contemplate.

It's really concerning thinking about our futures and thinking about like the time that we do have left on this earth or whatever that looks like.

I'm not sure if I personally would want to fit kids into that.

So my kids keep me humble.

Unfortunately, Kamala Harris doesn't have anything keeping her humble.

Three Shector, welcome to Sorry, not Sorry. Would you start by telling our listeners a little bit about who you are and the work that you do?

I am a documentary filmmaker. I make films about the subtle and not so subtle pressures that put us on specific paths in life and then punish us if we step off those paths.

My most recent film is about women who choose not to have children. I made a film about

virginity culture and the misogyny and mythology around virginity and how we value women in terms of their sexual histories.

I made a film about what it looks like to be a feminist in the 21st century.

I made that 20 years ago when people weren't yet using the word feminist again after some very conservative

times and it was still a very dirty word.

I'm glad you mentioned your film about virginity because it does get to this idea and I think

they're related about the modification of women and women's reproductive systems particularly

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