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The Assignment with Audie Cornish

How Early 2000s Pop Culture Pitted Women Against Each Other

The Assignment with Audie Cornish

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News Commentary, News, Politics

4.6844 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

In the early 2000s, girlhood became a spectacle. It was sold through reality TV, tabloid scandals, and the early Internet. And it’s still shaping the way we see women today. Audie talks with Sophie Gilbert, culture critic and author of “Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

My Guilty Pleasure podcast is not about the news.

0:03.2

Do you hear what Dumois said back?

0:05.3

Do Mois is the kind of online gossip site that is built on the pillars of the tabloid industrial complex.

0:14.0

I'll be your guide into the world of celeb news, sightings, and secrets.

0:18.5

And those pillars were also the foundation for an industry arguably built on the shoulders

0:22.7

of young women in the late 90s.

0:25.3

And the conditions of fame,

0:27.0

submit to constant surveillance by paparazzi,

0:30.0

and public scrutiny of your body.

0:33.4

Brittany Spears and her midriff debuted

0:35.8

with Baby One More Time to instant fame.

0:39.2

Yes, we all want to be their lover.

0:41.3

Spice Girls were spreading and selling girl power as hot girl archetypes, 40.

0:46.7

Sporty, scary, baby, and push, the all-conquering Spice Girl!

0:58.5

At the same time, Korn was becoming more easily accessible through free file-sharing sites on the early web,

1:02.3

and men's magazine sold even racier covers to keep up.

1:05.7

What was left of third-wave feminism had been co-opted

1:09.5

into a marketing of sexuality that insisted

1:12.3

objectification was empowering.

1:15.6

And suddenly there was a new category of fame.

1:17.8

And the only thing you had to do suddenly to be famous was to be visible, to expose your

1:22.5

life to the cameras.

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