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High Brow

Girlfailures, Sex Scenes, and Puriteens!

High Brow

High Brow

Society & Culture

4.8671 Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Mina explores some of the discussions that came up in February and March: aestheticizing failure as a woman, HBO's The Idol, sex scenes in tv shows, and how censorship and AI are affecting society's relationship to sex and companionship.

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Here was her reading list:
All hail the girlfailure by Roison Lanigan
Why are so many people rewatching Girls? by Callie Holtermann
What Rewatching Old Shows Teaches Us about Ourselves by Allie Volpe
'The Idol': How HBO's Next 'Euphoria' Became Twisted 'Torture Porn' by Cheyenne Roundtree
Are Sex-Negative ‘Puriteens’ Actually Taking Over the Internet? By EJ Dickinson
Penn Badgley Goes Deeper on Swearing Off Racy ‘You’ Sex Scenes: ‘That Aspect of Hollywood Has Been Very Disturbing’ by Kate Arthur
Hundreds of sexual deepfake ads using Emma Watson’s face ran on Facebook and Instagram in the last two days by Kat Tenbarge
When It Comes to OnlyFans, Humans Can Outcompete AI by Lux Alptraum
Replika's Companion Chat Bot Reportedly Loses the Sex and Leaves Fans Despondent by Nikki Main
Italy bans U.S.-based AI chatbot Replika from using personal data by Elvira Pollina and Martin Coulter

Edited by Sophie Carter
Music by Olivia Martinez
Cover by Lindsay Mintz 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, hello, welcome to highbrow. My name is Mealai. If I sound a little raspyer than usual, it's because I'm super dehydrated.

0:24.2

I have been known among close friends and family as a cactus. I don't like to drink water.

0:33.2

Or actually, I'm going to amend that statement. I don't remember to drink water. I actually am one of those people who thinks water tastes good.

0:40.7

I know some people don't think water tastes good.

0:43.1

I'm not one of those people.

0:45.0

I like water.

0:46.5

I just can't remember to drink like eight glasses a day.

0:51.1

And today especially, all I've had, all I'm having is currently this iced coffee. And here,

0:59.4

ooh, ASMR. So if I sound a little parched, that's why. And if you're wondering why I haven't

1:07.4

drank water, even though I'm clearly aware that I need it.

1:14.1

It's because I got to finish my delicious iced coffee first.

1:16.2

One drink at a time, folks.

1:26.6

Oh, and also this episode, I will be discussing sexual assault, rape, and sex scenes, as indicated in the title.

1:28.7

So just take that for consideration.

1:36.5

So for today, let me explain because this is episode two.

1:46.3

And, you know, the first episode was like a revisiting of a previous video I did, which is why it was a little bit choppy here and there because I literally took the audio from that video and spliced it with new

1:52.7

information. And one really crazy thing I realized is that like I speak differently now than I

2:00.2

spoke a year ago. I used to speak with this

2:04.3

customer service voice on YouTube. I wasn't really aware of it as I was speaking, but now I think

2:12.2

I'm a lot more comfortable talking in front of the camera and into a microphone. And so my natural voice has

2:20.6

bled through. And it is like an octave lower. So that was a little interesting to relisten to.

2:30.2

This week I thought rather than diving into one particular subject, we could do a more

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