The Sleepover Club: How Misogynists Are Using Infographics & Pseudoscience To Fuel Anti-Feminism

The Polyester Podcast

Society & Culture, Arts

4.5 • 533 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

You've probably seen the thin green line of misogyny - a new wave of infographics peddled by far-right twitter accounts and satirised by practically everyone else, highlighting incel-adjacent theories around gender and feminism. But while these images may be ready made meme material for most of the world; in the manosphere (a term we decode in this episode), these anti-feminist ideologies are growing quickly. But as incels begin using science and pop-psychology to validate their hatred, should we be taking their naively annotated imagery more seriously? Or is humour one of the most effective tools we have? Ione and Eden discuss.

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0:00.0	Hi, Eden. Hi, Ione. And hello to the listeners. Welcome to the Polyester podcast. I'm I'm
0:05.5	Ioni and I'm the founding editor-in-chief of Polyester and the author of Poor Little Sick Girls.
0:10.5	And I'm Eden and the managing editor of polyester and the co-host of this podcast.
0:14.4	This is The Sleepover Club, a feminist pop culture podcast, we pull apart the hashtag discourse
0:19.2	in the hope of making some sense of it all.
0:21.7	Before we get started, please like, great review and subscribe. Ione, do we have any reviews?
0:26.7	We do. We do. Indeed. This review is from Kelsey underscore GF by Apple Podcasts in the UK. Love 5
0:35.4	stars used to listen to this podcast and thought it stopped.
0:38.3	So happy to rediscover and listen back to all the episodes I've missed.
0:41.6	Now I look forward to new episodes dropping every week.
0:44.3	So many interesting points raised.
0:46.2	Me and my partner both listen and it gives us great dinner table discussions.
0:49.6	Love, love, love.
0:50.4	Thank you.
0:51.1	Triple kiss.
0:52.4	Aw.
0:53.5	Very cute. Triple you. Triple kiss. Aw. Very cute.
0:54.8	Triple kiss.
0:58.3	How are we today, Eden?
1:00.8	Oh, God.
1:01.3	How are you?
1:02.3	I'm good.
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