On Brett Kavanaugh; & Why Women Can’t (And Don’t Want To) Have It All
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🗓️ 3 October 2018
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Hello October! It’s Dolly’s favourite month of the year. If she were reincarnated, says Pandora, it would be as a knee-high boot.
This week we discuss MeToo’s infighting - as Asia Argento unveils a new bloody dagger tattoo aimed at Rose McGowan; Pret’s tragic error and the 14 allergens that all foodstuffs should be labelled with; and why the Nobel peace prize should be taken away from Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi despite the organisation’s novel explanation as to why it hasn’t.
Masses of recommendations from us both, including Lily Allen’s memoir, the film Tully, a beautiful piece on grief by Alice Edwards, and a series of accounts on what it was really like to work for Harvey Weinstein, in The Guardian magazine. Are NDAs protecting the wrong people?
We couldn’t *not* talk about Brett Kavanaugh - the Republican judge who looks set to enter the Supreme Court, the highest law-making body in the USA, despite the accusation of sexual assault lodged against him by Dr Christine Ford. Do men (and women) of a certain age - and political view - still subscribe to the belief “that if it isn’t rape, it doesn’t count”? And are we surprised that Trump is still endorsing Kavanaugh?
Also this week, we discuss a brilliant piece by the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine, Farrah Storr, for The Times Magazine - about why women can’t (and maybe don’t want) it all. Dolly and I talk about the ‘splintered woman’ (domestic, professional, sexual) and get personal on the subconscious pressure to have it all; why we don’t have it all; and why having different things, at different times, is actually even better.
Links:
Tully (2018) film
Kavanaugh v Ford is a litmus test for our times, by Janice Turner for The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/kavanaugh-v-ford-is-litmus-test-of-our-times-6xrmt5v7w
Suzanne Moore on Brett Kavanaugh: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/28/brett-kavanaugh-christine-blasey-ford-senate-supreme-court
Why women can’t have it all, by Farrah Storr for The Times magazine https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/you-can-t-have-it-all-admits-cosmopolitan-editor-farrah-storr-kt89pqm37
Episode #149 of Ctrl, Alt, Delete podcast hosted by Emma Gannon, with Farrah Storr https://www.emmagannon.co.uk/2018/09/27/ctrl-alt-delete-podcast-149-farrah-storr/
Jackie Onassis and Lee Radziwill: the truth about their rivalry, (extracted from a book) by Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger for The Times magazine
Life as a Harvey Weinstein employee, three accounts for The Guardian magazine https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/sep/29/harvey-weinstein-three-former-employees-on-working-for-him
‘I carry your hearts with me’ - an essay on grief by Alice Edwards for the current print issue of Porter magazine
‘My anxiety was a tool to survive’, Claire Foy interview by Tom...
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Highloat, the weekly pop culture and current affairs podcast brought to you by |
| 0:19.6 | journalist Dolly Alderton and Pandora Sykes. Happy October, my favourite of all the months. |
| 0:24.8 | Is it? Absolute favourite month, hands down favourite month. So, it's Halloween. |
| 0:30.0 | No, it's because you're trick-or-cute, do you guys a pump can I bet you guys a pump? |
| 0:36.5 | Of course I go with some sexy witch order. It's my favourite month because I like the |
| 0:43.6 | burnished or terminal colours, I like the nip in the air, I like hunkering down and watching films, |
| 0:49.7 | I like knee-high boots and I actually, I'm desperate to buy a new water wardrobe and I can't |
| 0:55.9 | because I don't think I've told you this, I'm on a spending ban until January the first. |
| 1:00.6 | Are you? Yeah, it's not because you're a clothes shopping, got a little bit out of |
| 1:04.7 | the box. No, a little bit, a little bit much, yeah, it's only with the ultimate consumer |
| 1:10.4 | this summer. Do you ever when we were, Pandora and I went out for cocktails and I got an email saying |
| 1:16.9 | like, oh your DPD delivery will arrive, blah, blah and you like to dull, this is a bit much and |
| 1:21.4 | I was like I know and then a text came up from the Spanish band who took away, like we tried |
| 1:26.1 | you today, but I think you got like a neta ball drawn off. She also tried us to go via Zara to return |
| 1:32.7 | some ridiculous thing she bought on our way to have a drink and I was like that's absolutely not |
| 1:37.8 | the intent of this evening. I know. You said that back in your bag. You said that that dress maybe |
| 1:42.0 | looked like the emoji poo. Yeah, anyway so yeah, Folly and I made a pact that we weren't going to |
| 1:47.6 | spend from September the first to January the first and it's actually so strict, it's like |
| 1:52.9 | can't wait to see how that one lasts. Well I've done okay so far, I haven't bought anything so far, |
| 1:57.2 | you're allowed to buy necessities but we're also not allowed to enable each other, we're not allowed |
| 2:02.1 | to browse and we're not allowed to really comment on clothes. There's a really strict rule. Yeah, |
| 2:09.4 | it's because we just became too obsessed with you know fashion filling the deep void of loneliness |
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