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🗓️ 6 May 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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The early 2000s preached “girl power” to the masses — but that often looked like sex and plastic surgery. Sophie Gilbert, staff writer at The Atlantic, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss what coming of age in the early aughts meant for young women in an atmosphere of highly sexualized body image, how porn manifested itself into pop culture, and what society had to say about powerful women. Her book is “Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves.”
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0:00.0 | If there's one thing we know about social media, it's that misinformation is everywhere, |
0:07.2 | especially when it comes to personal finance. |
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0:19.5 | I'm the host, Janelli Espinal, and each week I ask experts important money questions, |
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0:38.3 | There are lots of reasons to divide history into the millennia that played out before the digital age and everything that will happen after. |
0:58.0 | Commerce, communications, and culture are all radically different than they were before just about everybody on the planet went online. |
1:05.0 | And one form of online activity that has had an outsize effect on the lives of women is one that is overwhelmingly |
1:12.6 | tailored toward the desires of men, pornography. From KERA in Dallas, this is Think. I'm Chris Boyd. |
1:20.6 | Explicit content is unquestionably easier to access now than it was at the end of the 20th century. |
1:26.6 | And regardless of our views on porn, regardless of whether we ever seek it out for personal |
1:32.1 | gratification, its influence is deeply pervasive. |
1:35.8 | And my guest believes it's had a profound impact on how women understand themselves, |
1:40.8 | one another, and their fundamental value. |
1:43.7 | Sophie Gilbert is a staff writer at the Atlantic. |
1:46.5 | Her new book is called Girl on Girl, |
1:48.4 | how pop culture turned a generation of women against themselves. |
1:52.3 | Sophie, welcome back to think. |
1:54.1 | Thank you so much for having me. |
1:55.8 | So you turned 16 in 1999. |
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