How Rage Bait Replaced Moral Compasses
The Polyester Podcast
The Polyester Podcast
4.5 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Is it cynical to question if podcasts are being recorded just to get viral social media clips? And is it ironic that we're saying that on OUR podcast?
This week, hosts Ione and Gina delve into the murky ethics of posing questions around sex work and marriage to self promote, the need for having a definite opinion over admitting nuance and whether we're all individualising theory far too much.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Gina. Hi, Ioni. Hi everyone. I'm Gina, the senior editor of Polyester. And I'm Ayoni, the founding editor-in-chief of Polyester. This is The Polyester podcast, a feminist pop culture podcast, dissecting the discourse on a weekly basis. Before we start, if you're a fan of this podcast, please make sure to like, rate, subscribe and review. And if you really love us, you can sign up for a podcast membership |
| 0:21.0 | where you can join our WhatsApp chat, get access to our research each week, and get on an |
| 0:25.5 | Instagram close friends for only three quid a month. We also now have a substack called non-threatening |
| 0:30.1 | boys, where we will be sharing exclusive podcast episodes once a month on The Boy of the Hour. |
| 0:35.0 | Do you have any reviews, Ione? We do. Five stars, the very meaning of nuance. |
| 0:40.5 | Love how you bring levity and crack up humour to all of your discussions and disagreements. |
| 0:44.5 | It's refreshing to hear people not feeling like they need to agree with each other, or to speak from |
| 0:49.2 | a very shallow interpretation of feminism. You're effortlessly intersectional and that's superheartening for this indigenous woman from Ayatora to hear. Much love. Matariki. That's lovely. That is very lovely. Thank you. What's their name? I think Matariki is at the end, right? Oh, usually you say the username and it sometimes it's funny. Oh, no, no, it's not a joke one. |
| 1:11.2 | Okay, okay. But they're from New Zealand, so I didn't say it because it's self-explained. In the review. Okay, fair. It's a self-contained review. Yeah. I like them putting it. You should, all reviews should sign off their name. Yeah, I guess. but some people want to be snakes and not say their name. |
| 1:26.5 | Yeah, that's only when they're being very, very rude. |
| 1:28.7 | Very, very nasty. |
| 1:29.7 | Very, very harsh. |
| 1:30.6 | Okay. |
| 1:31.5 | Well, I guess, but some people want to be snakes and not say their name. Yeah, that's only when they're being very, very rude. |
| 1:28.7 | Very, very nasty. |
| 1:29.7 | Very, very harsh. |
| 1:30.6 | Okay. |
| 1:31.4 | What are we talking about today? |
| 1:33.1 | Okay, we're talking about. |
| 1:34.9 | You scared already, do you? |
| 1:36.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:37.2 | We're talking about the slumberflower, who is an online feminist critic, an influencer, |
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