The Atlantic Interview: Caitlin Flanagan

The Atlantic Interview

The Atlantic Monthly Group, LLC

Society & Culture, Politics, News

4.4 • 977 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Caitlin Flanagan wrote a devastating story about the death of a fraternity pledge at Penn State University for the Atlantic last year, and she has updates on the case for editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg. They discuss why fraternities are still attractive to straight, white, well-off young men on college campuses. Flanagan has also started fighting feminists, with her provocative essays on how some women are turning the #MeToo movement into a racket. She sees some women using the moment to take revenge against individual men while doing nothing to topple the patriarchy. She talks about why millennial women are confused and angry about their sexual encounters. She also says that our fear of toxic masculinity is crowding out an honest look at toxic femininity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:35.4	Welcome to the Atlantic interview. My guest today is Caitlin Flanagan, who is one of America's most famous writers and certainly one of the Atlantic's most famous writers.
0:44.3	And she's won a bunch of prizes for her great journalism.
0:46.4	And she happened to be in town.
0:48.3	And I said, let's go make a podcast.
0:51.6	So welcome Caitlin Flanagan.
0:57.4	Two corrections. Well, you can't correct me before we've even started. Okay. Okay, correct me. I've only ever won one award unless you count bitch magazine
1:03.2	calling me the douchebag of the century. Wait, you what is bitch magazine? I don't know. I don't
1:08.7	think exists anymore, but I have it on my CV.
1:11.1	Really?
1:11.5	It was a name calibrated for success.
1:13.6	It was.
1:14.2	On the newsstand.
1:16.2	Okay, what was the other correction?
1:18.0	I didn't happen to be in town.
1:19.1	You kindly invited me to town.
1:21.0	Oh, yeah.
1:21.7	That's true.
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