Starbeams under.

So I think that it came after this summer where everyone had been exposed to this so much

that I think some people found it really helpful as just like a way to think about conspiracy theories.

In a way that's not just inherently dismissive of all of them because I it's so important

that we aren't just saying like oh always trust people in power they always have your best interests

at heart because they don't and helping to draw the line there and provide a framework.

I had a lot of people reaching out to me feeling like it helped them understand

this emerging kind of conspiracy obsessed society a little bit better.

Welcome to Go Unladylike. I'm Kristen and this is part two of a two-parter on women, gender, and

conspiracy culture. You can listen in whichever order you prefer if you want to go part one

then part two you know you're if you're a traditionalist go ahead you can also mix things up

and go part two then part one doesn't matter the only requirement is you must listen to both

those are the rules and really you're welcome for not making it a 17-parter because it could be

it could be like a 47-parter okay as I learned in part one from historian Aaron Kempker women

have played influential roles in American conspiracy culture for decades over the past century

really more often than not we're talking white women and part of their conspiracy influence

came from leaning into traditional gender roles as housewives and mothers and we still see that

happening today with things like pastel QAnon which more on that later and based on my research at

least the more racist and anti-Semitic conspiracy beliefs are the more misogynist and gender panicked

they get as well like it's it's really it really becomes just a giant bowl of horrible spaghetti

it's Meghan Markle truthers it's soy boys it's hashtag save the children at the same time

conspiracy theories at large aren't a monolith you know and when women and conspiracies first grabbed

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