Hi everybody just me here giving you a quick heads up before we get into this

week's episode as you'll see we're covering the Sisterhood of the Travelling

Pants which is obviously such an iconic and nostalgic view for so many people and we have a great time talking about it.

But it's such a kind of a fun and nostalgic movie that I think sometimes we forget that there are some dark themes in it.

That certainly took me in Jen by surprise and that we get into in this episode.

Specifically I'm talking about Blake Lively's storyline and the themes around statutory

rape therein and I feel like we do a good job of talking about you know the gulf between how women often experience

that relationship versus how the movie chooses to portray it which sometimes feels like it's

very like Loletta-ish in its

portrayal and we do have a complicated conversation about the nuances. It may not be

for you today and I just wanted to be conscious. I don't want to give anyone a jump scare

because an alarming amount of women experience

relationships like this as young women.

I didn't want to take you there

if you don't want to go there today.

We keep a light sort of tone throughout. There's a lot of laughing, but like I you know we just wanted to keep it light because it is the sister of the traveling pants and ultimately we didn't want to get too bogged down in huge conversations.

But yeah, that's just my heads up.

I think it's a really interesting discussion.

We had a really good time talking about Blake Lively at Al. So have a good week, have a good episode and remember

that Blake Lively is a person too. And that's it I think. Okay, bye. Hello and welcome to Continental Garbage, the podcast where we all magically fit into the same pair of jeans even still.

My name is Caroline and I'm strangely defensive over the recent charges against Blake Lively.

Joining me is someone who's still mostly on the fence. over the recent charges against Blake Lively.

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