'The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman'

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🗓️ 11 July 2017

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Sam talks to writer Anne Helen Petersen about her new book, "Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman." They cover pop culture and the news, President Trump, the nature of celebrity, Kim Kardashian, Nicki Minaj, Serena Williams, Lena Dunham, Amy Schumer, how white women can learn to be woke, Anne Hathaway, Melissa McCarthy, Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer, Hillary Clinton, Ivanka Trump, Bernie Sanders and 'charismatic' politicians, and why Petersen's mother was an unruly woman. Email the show at [email protected] and follow Sam on Twitter @samsanders.

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0:00.0	Hey there, Paula Poundstone here.
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0:19.4	Hey y'all, Sam Sanders here. It's been a minute.
0:27.3	So every Tuesday on the show, we bring you a deep dive.
0:30.3	A conversation with one person or on one topic.
0:33.1	And today, we're going to talk about Unruly Women.
0:36.9	That's a subject of a new book by Buzzfeed Culture writer Ann Helen Peterson.
0:41.3	Ann's one of my favorite writers.
0:43.3	And this strong, undercurrent in all of her work is that you can't really understand
0:48.1	the serious stuff and the big news and current events without understanding
0:51.9	and talking about popular culture too.
0:54.5	So that's kind of the lens through which we talk about her book,
0:56.9	which is called, and fast forward to your parents if you're listening with kids.
1:00.7	Book's called, Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud,
1:04.1	The Rise and Rain of the Unruly Woman.
1:07.1	So book is 10 chapters and each one examines a different woman
1:11.1	who could be called in her own way, Unruly.
1:15.3	There's a chapter on Lena Dunham called, Too Naked.
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