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Pseudo-Intellectual with Lauren Chen

Ep 217 | THICC Wonder Woman: DC Goes Fat Acceptance

Pseudo-Intellectual with Lauren Chen

Lauren Chen

News Commentary, Society & Culture, News

4.31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Lauren and Liam discuss how woke comic book culture has become, with its most recent casualty being Wonder Woman. Secondly, is the looting in Chicago a form of reparations? One activist argues the case. Then, Lauren fact-checks Ash Sarkar with regards to migrants in the U.K. — is she portraying the situation fairly? And lastly, we cover the atrocious shooting of 5-year-old Cannon Hinnant, whose death is being ignored by mainstream media. Ease your discomfort, soreness, and stiffness with one of TheraOne’s premium products. Go to https://Theragun.com/Lauren before Labor Day and BUY ONE, GET ONE FREE on all products! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey guys, welcome back to the show and thank you so much for tuning in. If it's your first time here, I'm Lauren and this is Liam.

0:13.6

Hello. And we have a ton to talk about today. First off, DC introduces a fat wonder woman.

0:20.0

No one wanted this. No one asked for this, but here we are. Next, a Black Lives Matter activist after all the looting that happened in Chicago claims that actually that looting was really just reparations for slavery because of course then we look at a video

0:35.5

by Ash Sarkar talking about the migrant crisis in Britain and finally the tragic

0:40.8

murder of a child who was shot just outside of his home by a black man receives

0:46.2

little to no media coverage. Why? I think because it doesn't fit a certain political narrative.

0:52.8

So a lot to go through today.

0:54.6

First off, Wonder Woman, you're not a huge comic book reader, right?

0:57.8

I'm not really.

0:59.1

Yeah, I mean, I'm not into the whole DC universe

1:02.2

aside from what I've seen in movies really but even I know that Wonder Woman she's supposed to be like this pinnacle of beauty and fitness she's actually like an

1:09.8

Amazonian like goddess thing right she's supposed to be fit and competent and powerful I

1:15.4

would imagine yeah I would imagine too and you know no offense to people of more

1:20.3

rotun body shapes but I think it is safe to say despite what activists may be pushing now that there's a correlation between your physical fitness and the way your body looks.

1:32.0

Can I still say that or is that hate speech? I mean you could still say that for now. Yeah.

1:36.6

The very least. Well there's a little bit of a controversy brewing online after DC like the actual DC comics account put out a new cover with a, let's just call

1:47.1

her body positive Wonder Woman.

1:48.6

So we have this piece from allure, it says, wait, why can't Wonder Woman be plus size?

1:54.1

When artist Robin Eisenberg was recently asked to create a piece inspired by Wonder Woman,

1:58.6

she brought her unique artistic style to the interpretation she did.

2:02.4

I love drawing aliens with realistic body types.

2:05.1

Living their lives comfortable with themselves, she wrote in a post about the piece on

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