Ep. 204: Rebecca Traister, Part 2 -- #MeToo, Harvey & Sexual Harassment In Our Left Media
The Michael Moore Podcast
Michael Moore
4.7 • 9.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2021
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Last week, we aired Part 1 of Michael's conversation with author Rebecca Traister about President Biden's first six months in office. Afterwards, Mike and Rebecca ended up in an unplanned, revealing and thoughtful discussion about #MeToo, Harvey Weinstein and sexual harassment in progressive media. Traister has written forcefully on issues of gender, feminism, politics and culture. They discuss how abusers remain in power for so long, why the prison system and locking up cartoon villains will not solve the problem, and the importance of solidarity and unions to confront the entrenched power structure.
Rumble Episode 203: Rebecca Traister, Part 1
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-203-rebecca-traister-part-1/id1490354763?i=1000530362951
The "This American Life" episode on Don Hazen:
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/640/transcript
Five Women Are Accusing A Top Left-Leaning Media Executive Of Sexually Harassing Them
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/coralewis/don-hazen
Rebecca Traister: Inside Andrew Cuomo's Toxic Workplace
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/andrew-cuomo-misconduct-allegations.html
Rebecca's Books:
Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger
https://bookshop.org/a/1381/9781501181818
All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation
https://bookshop.org/a/1381/9781476716572
Big Girls Don't Cry: The Election That Changed Everything for American Women
https://bookshop.org/a/1381/9781439150290
Music in the episode:
"If I Ruled The World" - MILCK
https://youtu.be/NhHKRvv4JfU
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| 1:15.0 | Last week we aired part one of our conversation with Rebecca Tracer of New York Magazine. |
| 1:22.0 | And if you listened last week, you know that we had quite a discussion about her recent piece in New York Magazine about Joe Biden's first six months in office. |
| 1:35.0 | But as we were wrapping that up during the taping of that podcast, I had to ask her about the MeToo movement and her thoughts. |
| 1:44.0 | On the progress or not progress that we've made since 2017. |
| 1:51.0 | And I did this because she has been one of the most thoughtful writers on this subject. |
| 1:58.0 | But also for years, Rebecca has done important journalism on gender and feminism. |
| 2:07.0 | And to have her on my podcast, well this is an important opportunity to talk about an issue that I think all of us agree we should continue to talk and do things about. |
| 2:22.0 | Especially in this week of Andrew Cuomo. |
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