Before we get started today, I'd like to thank our sponsor for this episode. This episode was brought to you today by my long and cherished history of using birth control. Specifically, I want to thank the pill. I want to thank three rounds of Plan B that I took in my early 20s. And then I want to thank the copper non-hormonal IUD, which kept me safe for eight beautiful years during which I received the opportunity that has been denied to women throughout history, the opportunity to figure my shit out. I had sex with numerous people. I fell in love. I got married. I went to graduate school. I wrote a book and sold it in 24 countries and counting. I quit my full-time job to read and learn and research and write about the topics that mattered to me.

And then I met you, Katie, and we decided to do this podcast.

I bring up my birth control because I don't think about it very often, but I have been thinking about it a lot for the last week.

Because today we are talking about the people who want to take birth control away.

So I'm very grateful for birth control today.

That was maybe the most earnest sponsor Roundup we've ever had. Yeah, I feel sentimental about birth

control today. So, Katie, today we're talking about the newspaper of record for Lady Idiot Island.

Before I take a single step into the flesh-eating waters of this anti-intellectualsess

pool, I have to ask you, what do you know about Evie magazine?

Well, after I did a little close read of the most recent Ballerina Farm profile in the New York Times, because,

yes, there are more than one. I know that it is apparently Cosmo for conservative women.

Apparently is a really good word to add at the beginning there. So you are not ready for this

conversation today. This has been the most shocking experience of my life doing this research.

You and I both watch the substance.

For listeners who haven't watched the substance, you should.

But TLDR, this woman like devolves into worse and worse versions of herself until she gets to the end.

And she's basically like a clump of eyeballs and teeth.

And she's called monstro Eliza Sue. This is the monstro Eliza Sue of Tradwives. That's what we're dealing with today. So I actually knew about Evie earlier this summer. When I started talking about Tradwives, a lot of people were commenting on my TikTok, being like, you've got to check this out. and I looked into it over the summer and I actually decided not to.

Like I didn't want to talk about it on TikTok for two reasons. Number one, you have to pay money to access the vast majority of their content. I didn't want to do that at the time. And number two, I had like a bit of a spiritual hangover from contributing to the mainstreaming of ballerina farm

in the discourse. And I just like didn't want to do that with Evie until I had to. And then I started this podcast with you. Our Lord and Savior Donald Trump was elected. And then Hannah Nealman became the cover girl for Evie. And all of a sudden, Evie's all over the place. So I did it. I paid for an EV membership, so no one else has to.

No, you didn't.

I did.

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