Summary
Hannah and Maia unpack the horrors of the feminist fashion world and its posterchild, Leandra Medine (founder of Man Repeller). Was Man Repeller's demise really a death rattle for the girlboss, post-feminism era? Or was this just a blip in the timeline? Join us as we digress about Moonlight v. La La Land, whether emo and Abercrombie could ever be bedfellows, 5000 different pronunciations of Tavi Gevinson's name (and the Dhoom movies), and a fun game of spot the difference with a pair black fishnet tights.
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Sources:
Claire Lampen, “Upper East Sider Realizes She’s Privileged”, The Cut (2021)
https://www.thecut.com/2021/08/leandra-medine-says-she-always-thought-she-was-poor.html
Leandra M. Cohen, “Where We Go From Here: A Message for the MR Commnunity”, Repeller (2020) https://repeller.com/man-repeller-open-letter/
“The Tanning of America pt. 1”, The Cutting Room Floor (2021)
Rebecca Jennings, “The racial reckoning in women’s media”, Vox (2020) https://www.vox.com/the-goods/21287045/refinery29-black-employees-man-repeller-cosmopolitan-who-what-wear-vogue
Leandra M. Cohen “I Owe You Better: A Commitment to the Future”, Repeller (2020)
https://repeller.com/i-owe-you-better-a-commitment-to-the-future/
Leandra M. Cohen “What I Wish I Knew When I Got Married” Repeller (2017)
https://repeller.com/getting-married-advice/
Rachel Tashjian, “What Happened to Man Repeller?, GQ (2020) https://www.gq.com/story/what-happened-to-man-repeller
Meredith Galante, “How A 22-Year-Old Blogger Wound Up On The Runway At New York Fashion Week”, Insider (2011) https://www.businessinsider.com/man-repeller-leandra-medine-blogger-fashion-2011-9
Benjamin Wallace, “What’s So Alluring About a Woman Known as Man Repeller?”, The Cut (2014) https://www.thecut.com/2014/02/man-repeller-leandra-medine-profile.html
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, how's it going? |
| 0:02.1 | Good. I finished my final driving lesson. |
| 0:05.2 | Okay. |
| 0:05.8 | And my whole body hurts like so much because I just tense up so badly, which is probably |
| 0:12.1 | a hallmark of a bad driver, but I'm just so fucking stressed. |
| 0:16.1 | No, I bet that's really common. |
| 0:18.8 | Well, it's like I don't feel stressed when I'm actually driving. |
| 0:21.1 | It's more just, I think my body's reacting to like an underlying stress that I'm not like, whatever, even saying. But I cannot wait for you to chauffeur me around. Oh, yeah. I know. It's like half of me. It doesn't even want to tell people when I do get my license because I know I'm going to be doing some errands. You are going to be a designated car friend or driver friend. |
| 0:42.0 | Which, that's awesome. |
| 0:44.9 | Yeah, how are you? |
| 0:46.4 | I'm fine. |
| 0:47.9 | I worked again this morning. |
| 0:49.6 | We've had this exact opening conversation before where you were like, I had a driver's |
| 0:53.7 | lesson. |
| 0:54.9 | And I was like, I had work. It's because whenever we record, it's after you work in the morning. So it's like when Hannah, she'll go to work at like 6.30 in the morning and then come back at like one. And then we're like, okay, well, we have the afternoon to record. So then she comes home and we record. Yep. We're really boring. No, it sounds like we're booked and busy. With ample time to watch like five hours of search party every evening. |
| 1:14.6 | Okay. we record. Yep. We're really boring. No, it sounds like we're booked and busy. With ample time to watch like five hours of search party every evening. Okay, but you can't do things at night. Things can't be accomplished once the sun is down. Not for you and I, not for you and I. We're morning birds. We're vanilla women. Oh, no. Women of the day. We're planning on seeing that Megan movie soon |
| 1:29.1 | Yes, I'm making my yesy Megan |
| 1:31.8 | I showed her the trailer the other day |
| 1:34.9 | And she was like, this isn't real |
| 1:36.1 | Yeah, it's that movie with that little flesh robot |
| 1:39.2 | They know what Megan is |
| 1:40.7 | I guess everyone knows what it is |
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