Hegemonic Victimhood Edition

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Arts, Tv & Film, Music

4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2018

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Julia Turner, Stephen Metcalf, and Dana Stevens discuss the film Eighth Grade, the maligned TV series Insatiable with June Thomas, and Kelly Marie Tran's op ed about social media harassment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by Pepsi Max. Christmas is great, but there's loads of ways to make it better.
0:08.0	Like sneaking some chili into the gravy for some extra ink, or building a playlist that will even get your
0:14.8	none up on the table. Or just cracking open an ice cold Pepsi Max.
0:20.1	Christmas.
0:23.0	Better with Pepsi Max.
0:27.0	The following podcast contains explicit language. I'm Stephen McCaff and this is the Slate Culture Gap Fest, Hedgeshoo-
0:37.0	I'm Stephen McCaff and this is the Slate Culture Gap Fest
0:43.0	Hedgemont Hood Edition.
0:45.0	It's Wednesday, August 29, 2018.
0:47.9	On today's show, 8th grade is a small indie movie
0:50.2	about a subject both large and small,
0:52.2	how teen and tween lives now take place in the
0:55.2	limina of real life as it connects to social media.
0:58.2	Limina. And then Insatiable is the super controversial show on Netflix.
1:03.2	It tells the story of an overweight girl
1:06.0	whose life changes radically after she
1:08.1	through a series of weird happenstances becomes thin.
1:11.4	Is it daring an edgy premium TV or the smug fat-shaming trash?
1:16.2	Its critics say it is, we discuss with its lone internet defender, June Thomas, the beloved
1:22.2	June.
1:23.4	Will she stay beloved?
1:24.6	And finally, Toxic Fandom and the case of Kelly Marie Tran.
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