I think sometimes the influence of these movies and these musicians, it's overstated, but I think it's culturally specific.

I think there are cultures where media is hugely influential, and there are cultures where that are maybe more community-oriented where you learn how to be yourself through other people.

Right?

Like, you're like, I learned how to be me through the older women I was watching and my peers.

But I do think there is a suburban malaise or like a city loneliness where there are people that American pie was their text.

They didn't have necessarily a big brother or older cousins in real life that were looking

at.

I'm like, I want to be like him.

Welcome to the stacks, a podcast about books and the people who read them.

I'm your host, Tracy Thomas, and it is the first book club day of 26.

We are joined again by Christiana and Bakwe Medina, who is an Emmy-nominated TV writer, a journalist,

and now the host of a brand new pop culture podcast called Pop Silibus.

Today, Christiana and I are discussing a girl-on-girl how pop culture podcast called Pop Syllibus. Today, Christiana and I are discussing a girl-on-girl

how pop culture turned a generation of women against themselves by Sophie Gilbert. In this book,

Sophie Gilbert takes us back into the 1990s and early 2000s and asks us to interrogate the ways

women were objectified, hypersexualized,

and infantilized across the pop culture landscape.

Christiana and I talk about all of that, plus we link the era's rampant misogyny to the rise

of the in-cell and so much more.

So stay tuned for our conversation and make sure you listen all the way to the end to find out

what our February book club pick will be. Everything we talk about on each episode of the Stacks is linked

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