Maligned Women

On the Media

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🗓️ 20 August 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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How the maligned women of the 90s and the noughts help us understand our media — and ourselves.

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0:00.0	Boy meets girl.
0:02.0	Boy falls in love with girl.
0:04.0	Girl cuts off boy's penis.
0:07.0	Revisiting stories of maligned women from the 90s
0:10.0	helps us understand our media and ourselves.
0:14.0	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
0:17.0	I'm Brooke Gladstone.
0:18.0	Take the case of Lorena Bobbitt.
0:26.2	The media is absolutely complicit in the misrepresentation of this story. This is a story about a woman who was beaten, she was strangled, she was raped, and it went on for years.
0:31.1	But what does it take for media and the rest of us to revise our flawed first draft
0:37.2	of history.
0:38.3	What are the factors that can maybe create a world where they're treated decently
0:42.1	and actually maybe given the chance to tell their story and be believed?
0:45.7	And we wouldn't need podcasts 25 years later to circle back to them and be like,
0:50.1	hey, wait, this was complex.
0:51.9	It's all coming up after this.
1:00.2	Music like, hey, wait, this was complex. It's all coming up after this. From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
1:04.2	I'm Brooke Ladstone.
1:06.7	The 90s and the knots constructed and imprinted certain images on our collective imaginations.
1:14.7	Images of certain kinds of women, ambitious, raging, raving women who made salacious headlines a generation ago.
1:24.5	Women like Britney Spears.
1:26.3	Brittany Spears has upset a lot of mothers in this country,
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