Lucky boys with Chloe Hadjimatheou

Standard Issue Podcast

Standard Issue

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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If an adult male grooms a teenage girl into a sexual relationship, we're increasingly likely to call it abuse. But reverse the sex of the perpetrator and victim and attitudes are very different. In her latest podcast, Lucky Boy, journalist Chloe Hadjimatheou investigates one such case. She chats to Hannah about why female abusers are judged less harshly and their victims are often not seen as victims at all. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.1	Standard issue for all women. Hello, people of Tuesday or whenever it is that you're listening
0:36.5	to this podcast. We've got a busy week
0:38.9	coming up and by that I mean standard issue has a busy week coming up. I don't know what your
0:43.0	diary looks like but good luck with it anyway. Tomorrow in rated or dated we're going to be watching
0:49.1	look who's talking. Now I remember this as a baby with John Travolta's voice, but apparently it's a baby with Bruce
0:56.5	Willis's voice, which is slightly, that's horrifying, but not much. On Thursday, Mick and I will be
1:02.7	delivering a Bush telegraph to you. There will be some good news because there is always some good
1:06.6	news, even if it's just for like Jack Dawes or philatelists or some shit.
1:12.0	And on Friday, we're going to be joined by Auntie Yo, and by that, I mean, Yosra, yes, I am
1:17.8	continuing with this monthly visitor analogy Avasta and she doesn't mind.
1:23.0	And that means a flicking.
1:24.4	At this time, we are going to be watching challenges, which I've been told
1:27.8	contains some sauciness and some tennis. I mean, I do like tennis. So we'll say how that plays out.
1:34.2	But before all of that, there's this very podcast that you're currently listening to. And it's
1:38.7	pretty interesting, if I do say so myself. In it, I am chatting to journalist and creator of some really good podcasts, Chloe Hashimathio.
1:49.1	It's a second visit to standard issue by Chloe, who I spoke to a few years ago about sexual abuse in K-pop and her BBC podcast, Burning Sun.
1:58.6	This time round, we're talking about her latest investigation, Lucky Boy,
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