Millennial Feminism Is Dead, Long Live Millennial Feminism
The Polyester Podcast
The Polyester Podcast
4.5 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
We're back and the world has gone ape in our absence! Between X discourse about Slut Walks and criticism of Lindy West's new memoir Adult Braces, it's time for a full retcon of the past and present state of Millennial Feminism.
In this week's episode, hosts Ione and Gina reflect on 2010s sex positivity, the commodification of feminism throughout the ages and the nihilistic point of view gen z feminists are left to reckon with.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi Gina. Hi, Ioni. Hi everyone. I'm Gina, the senior editor-aditor of Polyester. And I'm Ayoni, 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. |
| 0:14.6 | Please make sure to like, rate, subscribe and review. And if you didn't already know, members get a free copy of every scene we put out, |
| 0:22.5 | as well as lots of extra perks, like one-on-one mentoring with me, a group WhatsApp chat where you can talk to me |
| 0:27.5 | and Ione and lords, loads more. Sign up via the link in our description. Do we have any reviews, |
| 0:33.1 | Ioni? We do. This is from Woolfick in the UK. |
| 0:39.0 | Five stars, the best. |
| 0:40.4 | Love Gina and Ioni so much. |
| 0:44.8 | Every time my podcast drops, I'm like, yes, let's stare into the abyss with my faves. |
| 0:49.4 | And then Mills on Spotify says, I love this podcast, no notes. |
| 0:50.4 | And Momo says, |
| 0:53.8 | How to Pause the episode took up at how Fugly Tam Francis is. |
| 0:55.9 | Is that how you say? |
| 0:57.3 | Yeah, you'd say Francis is. |
| 1:02.1 | Home was, this show is so informative in ways you do not expect. |
| 1:03.0 | Thank you. |
| 1:03.7 | It's true. |
| 1:04.5 | It is true. |
| 1:08.5 | Also, you know who's got a really busted house on Architectural Digest? |
| 1:09.0 | Who? |
| 1:10.6 | Sir Rina Williams. Oh, it's so ugly. It's minging. She hasn't got a living room. She's got... It looks a bit like the Anora house. It's worse. She's got like an art gallery and the art gallery is like a chair made of curmate. That's like Benny Blanco or Bianco. What's his name? Benny Blanco. He has that as well. He has a teddy bear sofa. It's horrible. It makes me feel sad. I know. It's like corpses chair, like in the like under France. Yeah, I keep getting pushed Ali Express. Ali Express ads of like see-through chairs that you then put all your teddies in and it makes me sad. |
| 1:44.7 | I think it's fucked. Well I'm to put an air in it. What'd you mean? Well we had inflatable chairs |
| 1:48.9 | when we were younger. Yeah but I don't think it's evil. I think people like doing teddy's for the |
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