The Guilty Feminist Redux: Not Having Kids with Sofie Hagen and special guest Susan Calman

The Guilty Feminist

The Spontaneity Shop

Comedy, Feminism

4.8 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

The Guilty Feminist Redux: Not Having Kids

Presented by Deborah Frances-White and Sofie Hagen with special guest Susan Calman

Recorded 21 October 2017 at Giant Dwarf, Sydney. First released 30 October 2017.

The Guilty Feminist theme composed by Mark Hodge.

More about Deborah Frances-White

https://deborahfrances-white.com
https://twitter.com/DeborahFW
https://www.virago.co.uk/the-guilty-feminist-book

More about Sofie Hagen

https://twitter.com/SofieHagen
https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/sofie-hagen-banglord

More about Susan Calman

https://twitter.com/SusanCalman
https://www.susancalman.com

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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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