The Daily Mail - FOR HER!
Unladylike
Unladylike Media
4.8 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
The invention of tabloids was both revolutionary and regressive for women, and it all goes back to The Daily Mail (yes, that Daily Mail with the book-length headlines and endless celeb photos). In this Unladies' Room bonus episode, Kristen Meinzer (How to Be Fine, The Daily Fail) regales us with the surprising women's history of The Daily Mail, feminized news and what tabloids actually get right.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Lady Life. |
| 0:05.0 | Lady Like. |
| 0:08.0 | A Lady Like. |
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| 0:17.0 | I've had a love. This is aunlady-like. I'm Kristen and on ladies I am bringing y'all another holiday treat from inside the unladies room. |
| 0:35.8 | Earlier this year, I have a pleasure |
| 0:37.6 | of talking with another Kristen, Kristen Meinzer, |
| 0:40.7 | podcast royalty, host of How to Be Fine with Jilinta Greenberg, as well as the |
| 0:46.2 | podcast we're going to be talking about this episode, The Daily Fail. |
| 0:51.3 | And yes, that is a play on The Daily Mail. |
| 0:54.4 | And if you're thinking, the Daily Mail, that is a horrible, like, |
| 0:59.0 | ultra-conservative gossip rag? |
| 1:01.5 | Why on earth would we be talking about this on un-Ladyly? of male was |
| 1:15.0 | never nevertheless revolutionary when it came to addressing women in a newspaper. |
| 1:18.0 | Its founder was intent on essentially monetizing women. |
| 1:23.5 | And Alfred Harmsworth, the Daily Male founder, |
| 1:27.0 | was absolutely right in banking on the fact that if you brought in what he called the women's realm |
| 1:37.2 | into newspapers that could attract an entire untapped cash cow of advertisers. |
| 1:45.0 | Its women's page editor back in the World War I era |
| 1:49.0 | recalled how the men running the daily male, |
| 1:52.0 | quote, expected women to be interested solely in knitting |
| 1:55.8 | jumpers in caring for their complexions looking after babies in cooking in a good |
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