Obama on Wokeness & Our Love for Modern Love <3

The High Low

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 5 November 2019

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

This week we discuss Snapchat dysmorphia, the data-collection of period-tracking apps and why Dolly wants to shag Autumn. Also today we discuss Obama's speech-gone-viral on wokeness - which wasn't really about wokeness but on seeking not to shame, or humiliate others, in the name of progress. Is there space for Obama's brand of gradualism - or do we actually need radical change?

And we talk about Amazon Prime's Modern Love, based on the New York Times column, which we have both fallen hook, line and sinker for - because we are but sentimental fools.

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Links

Modern Love on Amazon Prime https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Love-Season-1/dp/B07VNF5351

Modern Love, Edited by Daniel Jones https://www.waterstones.com/book/modern-love/daniel-jones/9780307351043

One Dimensional Woman, by Nina Power https://www.amazon.co.uk/One-Dimensional-Woman-Zero-Books/dp/1846942411

Sabotage, by Emma Gannon for The Pound Project https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/poundproject/the-pound-project-part-six-emma-gannon

Exposure, by Olivia Sudjic https://peninsulapress.co.uk/product/exposure

A Woman's Beauty: Put Down or Power Source? By Susan Sontag, 1975 http://www.wheelersburg.net/Downloads/Sontag.pdf

The backlash against birth control apps, by Olivia Sudjic for The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jul/21/colossally-naive-backlash-birth-control-app

Malaika Jabali on Obama https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/01/does-obamas-critique-of-radical-politics-help-bring-about-the-change-he-wanted

Sarah Ditum on Obama https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/02/barack-obama-right-you-dont-change-minds-by-damning-your-opponents

I walked out on my husband and kids for true love, by anon for The Sunday Times Magazine https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/i-walked-out-on-my-husband-and-kids-for-true-love-and-im-not-going-to-live-with-aching-regret-8xnjkgqpd

Instagram might be removing plastic surgery filters, but what about the skin lightening ones? By Ellie Abraham for gal-dem

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Highlo, the weekly car into fairs and pop culture podcast brought to you
0:19.0	by Dolly Alderton and Pandora Sykes.
0:22.0	We are recording this bright and early on a Monday morning.
0:24.3	It's very off to Glasgow tomorrow for the last leg of the Highlo experience.
0:28.7	Can't wait, I have been in bed all weekend preparing for Glasgow.
0:35.0	And I still feel horrific.
0:36.9	I just said to Pandora before we started recording in a sort of wobbly, tearful voice that
0:42.1	I can't imagine ever wanting to go on a night out again.
0:45.4	And I'm worried I'll never feel normal.
0:47.6	But Pandora has just dosed me up with them, Sudafed nasal spray.
0:52.1	I've downed half a bottle of Gavaskon and Dolly's taking a big hit on the Sudafed.
0:56.2	Talk everyone through this Sudafed because I think in cold and flu season.
1:00.6	I do think that shit's really important, isn't it?
1:03.3	I have been telling everyone about it, like it's sort of a hot new Amazon prime series.
1:06.9	I was a little bit skeptical and she's just given me a little sifter, a little sifter up
1:12.0	each nostril.
1:13.0	And I feel like a new woman.
1:14.9	Sudafed blocked nose spray.
1:17.2	God it's good.
1:18.2	Only problem is, your nose does get addicted to it.
1:20.9	I already want another hit, I can feel it.
1:23.0	And don't you have to.
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