On 'Women Spreading'; And The Start of Silly Season

The High Low

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 6 December 2017

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

It’s December, which means that silly season is officially upon us. Thank goodness, then, for Alabama student Kelsey who dressed up as a Christmas tree - for every single lecture. Oh, and the scientists who think they’ve found one of Santa’s bones. We discuss Christmas in all it’s technicolour madness, and whether or not it’s really anything to do with religion anymore.

Also today, the hashtagged social trend of 'women spreading’ (Pandora prefers ‘fem spreading’ but also acknowledges that it sounds a little too like margarine for your vag.) Is women spreading a symbolic riposte to man spreading? Or, is it a gimmick confined to Instagram? We talk activism in it various guises. Either way, Dolly won’t be getting her gusset out on the tube this December. Sorry lads.

This festive month, The High Low is sponsored by Papier. You can get 15% off their gorgeous stationary - it’s not too late for Christmas cards! - at papier.com, using HIGHLOW.

This week, we are reading, listening and watching:

Demi-Gods by Eliza Robertson https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33414010-demi-gods

Friends From College, on Netflix https://www.netflix.com/title/80117485

Internetting with Amanda Hess for The New York Times: The White Internet’s Love Affair With Digital Blackface Is https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/11/28/arts/internetting-with-amanda-hess.html

Eva Wiseman interviews Graham Norton for The Observer magazine https://www.theguardian.com/global/2017/dec/03/graham-norton-the-bbc-dont-defend-themselves-robustly-enough-

Sarfraz Manzoor on Muslim foster parents for The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/dec/03/muslim-foster-parents-it-has-been-such-a-blessing

The Marvelous Mrs Maisel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3WEKki6znk

India Knight's Sunday Times Magazine column on the joy of a drink at Christmas:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/india-knight-look-out-there-s-a-new-puritanism-afoot-don-t-let-abstemious-control-freaks-spoil-the-christmas-party-9wpv8zxn9

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 37 of The Highlo, the weekly news, current affairs and pop culture
0:16.5	podcast brought to you by journalist Dolly Alderton and Pandora Sykes.
0:21.0	Hello.
0:23.0	Such a tentative hello Dolly.
0:25.0	I know.
0:26.0	Are you all talked out?
0:27.0	I am.
0:28.0	I'm all talked out.
0:29.0	I've been doing the audiobook recording of my book Everything I Know About Love, which
0:34.4	is out in February.
0:35.4	Nice schedule.
0:36.4	Always using this part of the script.
0:37.4	I didn't need to set this out in February.
0:39.8	Did I?
0:40.8	I didn't need to say that.
0:41.8	No, you don't plug it very much.
0:42.8	What would have been worse if I said it's available for pre-order?
0:46.0	No.
0:47.0	I think you just did.
0:48.0	Yeah, God, it's so tough, the old audiobook reading thing.
0:52.0	You don't... can I be so bold to say that you don't love reading aloud at the best of
0:55.2	time?
	...

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