The Guilty Feminist Redux: Not Having Kids with Sofie Hagen and special guest Susan Calman
The Guilty Feminist
The Spontaneity Shop
4.9 • 12.2K Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Picture this, static cars, idling engines, angry horns, now picture you, zooming past |
| 0:12.4 | it all, light and breezy, ah, the sweet feeling of whizzing past traffic. |
| 0:21.0 | Make your train journey via vantewescoast.co.uk, a vantewescoast, feel good travel. |
| 0:32.5 | Guilty feminists, as I said in a previous episode, I'm going to put more time into slightly |
| 0:39.8 | fewer live theatrical episodes every year. |
| 0:42.7 | We've traditionally done 52 and that's an awful lot and I've started to feel like it would |
| 0:48.5 | be better if I did fewer, focus more on them and in the interim gave what some people |
| 0:54.2 | have been asking for, which is, let's pull from our back catalog, but reframe some of |
| 1:00.1 | the episodes, let's do some best of's and let's look at the incredible library of feminism |
| 1:06.4 | we have in the guilty feminist vaults. |
| 1:09.8 | So this week, it's a really early episode from our first visit to the Edinburgh fringe |
| 1:14.2 | in which Sophie Hagen and I talked to Susan Kalman about not having children. |
| 1:18.8 | Now, it may or may not surprise you that this is one of our most controversial episodes |
| 1:22.9 | ever. |
| 1:23.9 | We received more complaints for this than any other and all of them revolved around the |
| 1:27.9 | subject matter. |
| 1:28.9 | The reason for this was that some people felt we were saying, hmm, children are awful |
| 1:34.1 | and I think there were some mothers that understandably felt like, hold on, I was listening |
| 1:37.3 | to this show and suddenly you were saying, like, children can be annoying and my feelings |
| 1:42.8 | about this is this is a really important episode to re-air and think through because I felt |
| 1:48.5 | if we'd been three mothers going, gosh, sometimes it's really boring playing games with small |
| 1:52.3 | children because they're very repetitive that everyone would have gone, yeah, it really |
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