Recode Decode: 'Good and Mad' author Rebecca Traister

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Business

4.3 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2018

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

New York Magazine writer Rebecca Traister talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her new book, "Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger." In this episode: (01:37) Traister's background; (07:34) Her goal when she became a feminist journalist; (11:54) The state of women's anger post-2016; (17:26) Why is anger having a moment now?; (20:20) "I had no idea how common this was!"; (26:36) Rosa Parks, Abigail Adams and other angry women; (31:18) Anger, power and violence in the 2010s; (36:19) One year after #MeToo, will people keep going?; (42:14) Women who are angry in defense of the patriarchy; (46:36) "I don't see any of this ending in our lifetimes."; (49:45) What has to change right now?; (54:38) "I have to be hopeful" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:02.6	Hi, I'm Cara Swisher, Editor at Large of Recode.
1:04.9	You may know me as someone who's mad as hell and isn't going to take it anymore.
1:09.3	And also, I vote.
1:10.5	But in my spare time, I talk tech and you're listening to Recode Decode
1:13.4	from the Vox Media Podcast Network.
1:15.4	Today in the red chair is Rebecca Traster, a fantastic writer for New York magazine,
1:19.8	one of my favorites, and the cut.
1:21.7	She's also the author of a new book called Good and Mad, the Revolutionary Power of Women's
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