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Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher

Ep 398 | Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit | Guest: Ashley Mears

Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher

Blaze Podcast Network

News, News Commentary, Daily News, Society & Culture

4.9 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

A sociologist and former fashion model takes readers inside the elite global party circuit of "models and bottles" to reveal how beautiful young women are used to boost the status of men. A story of extreme gender inequality in a seductive world, Very Important Peopleunveils troubling realities behind moneyed leisure in an age of record economic disparity. Ashley Mears is associate professor in the Department of Sociology and in the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Boston University. She is the author of Pricing Beauty: The Making of a Fashion Model. Her writings have appeared in the New York Times, Elle, and other publications. She lives in Boston. This Week Sponsor: Get your life back with Relief Factor and its 3-Week Quick Start for only $19.95. If you are in pain, what have you got to lose? Go to https://www.relieffactor.com Subscribe on YouTube Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:06.7

Very Important People status and beauty in the global party circuit and nothing says me more than status and beauty in the

1:17.0

global party circuit here to your facts. So I wanted to talk to Ashley Meers the

1:21.3

author sociologist former fashion model, Ashley Beers.

1:25.8

Ashley, thank you for joining us on chewing the fat today. I appreciate it.

1:29.4

Thank you.

1:30.4

It's great to be here.

1:32.4

So... Thank you. It's great to be here.

1:32.9

So what brought this on?

1:37.3

I mean, you interviewed 44 promoters who are paid by clubs by clients that are wealthy to bring models in that are referred

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