Is Woke Cool Again? Why The Dirtbag Left Are Pivoting
The Polyester Podcast
The Polyester Podcast
4.5 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Another day, another Cumtown alumni going viral for doing something politically sound - from Adam Friedland's interview with Ritchie Torres to Stavros Halkias challenging his podcast guest on transphobic rhetoric, the former courters of controversy have apparently done a complete u turn on their previous edgelord output.
This week, hosts Ione and Gina take a look at what's made the most famous male members of the dirtbag left change their tune on social justice, whether 'dark woke' is working in terms of making the left cool again and whether the overton window for acceptability in politics is shrinking.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi Gina. Hi, Ioni. Hi everyone. I'm Gina, the senior editor of Polyester. And I'm Iione, the founding editor-in-chief of Polyester. And this is the Polyester podcast, a feminist pop culture podcast dissecting the discourse on a weekly basis. Please make sure to like, rate, subscribe and review. And if you haven't yet, make sure to subscribe to our membership platform for exclusive podcast-centered perks. |
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| 0:33.7 | Do we have any reviews, Ione? |
| 0:35.3 | We do. |
| 0:35.9 | This is five stars from Carly 23 are in the UK. Love it. The only podcast hosts I wanted to hear Analyze that Sabrina Carpenter album cover. Thank you, Carly. And then on Spotify, we have Catherine B, who this is about last week's episode, says, One of the Best Episodes I've heard, So Funny and Relatable, Such a Good Perspective on Something That's Been Discussed for best episodes I've heard so funny and relatable such a good |
| 0:55.0 | perspective on something that's been discussed for years I'm an English listener living in |
| 0:58.8 | Canada and your podcast helps me keep up and feel connected to home love your pod so much |
| 1:02.9 | oh thank you and then we have theatra also on Spotify says agree with I agree with I only that it's not fair on guys |
| 1:13.3 | who are genuinely into these things |
| 1:15.7 | or experimenting with gender and it just gives homophobia |
| 1:18.3 | and gender essentialism reminds me of people posting |
| 1:20.8 | TikToks lately being annoyed that there's men |
| 1:23.2 | are out of some ray concerts like do they know gay guys exist |
| 1:26.2 | LaMalle. True. |
| 1:28.9 | I would expect there to be only men. Only gay men. Yeah, I know. I think that's people |
| 1:33.6 | misunderstanding the Adidas and Becker Ray fan base, if anything else. |
| 1:37.1 | Honestly. What are we talking about today, Gina? We're talking about Comtown. |
| 1:42.2 | Not just talk about... Not just Cumb Town. |
| 1:44.7 | How the boys from Cumb Town have become leftist icons in their own right. |
| 1:49.6 | We're talking about the new wave of what is being called Dark Walk. |
| 1:54.1 | And... |
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