Episode 53: The Moynihan Report

In Bed With The Right

Adrian Daub and Moira Donegan

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Sexuality

4.8 • 662 Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2025

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

The Moynihan Report (1965) written by later New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1927-2003) is an important document in the backlash against the Civil Rights era, but it constitutes an important document in gender conservatism as well. In this episode, Adrian and Moira read through the report in some detail, and talk about the many brilliant critiques level at Moynihan and his project pretty much from the start. You can find the report here, and Hortense Spiller's brilliant dissection of it here. [Note: there are a couple of words in this episode that we weren't wild about saying. Just be warned.]

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Adrienne Dob.
0:08.2	And I'm Weirondigan.
0:09.4	And whether we like it or not, we're in bid with the right.
0:13.6	So today, Adrian, we are kind of tackling one of our white whales.
0:18.1	Yeah.
0:18.6	A document that is sort of the source of a lot of the 20th century
0:23.3	tender politics that we talk about on the show, and also something that still has big
0:27.3	reverberations today. Yeah. And that is the Moynihan report. One content note before we
0:35.6	delve in, so the word Negro is basically in every single sentence of this
0:40.6	fucking report, I don't want to say it. So I'm going to say black instead. I know that's a little
0:45.2	squeamish and whatever. And like in some way, like I wanted to give you the undelterated thing.
0:49.1	It's just a me thing. Like, it's not how I want to spend my mornings. So don't quote what we say here because I'm changing it slightly, just out of my own weirdness.
0:59.3	FYI.
1:00.2	And then the other thing we should say before we get going is to please rate review us on iTunes,
1:05.6	follow us on Patreon.
1:06.5	We have cool new content coming out twice a month.
1:10.7	We had a total freak flag episode that is kind of people loving it.
1:15.8	Yeah, it's rules.
1:16.9	I love that episode.
1:18.2	A 90-minute tour to force of some weird-ass Germans, my forte.
1:24.7	And the next episode, I think, on the Patreon is is going to be on basic Lupine urology, the
1:31.5	Dick Wolf universe.
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