The Sleepover Club: Is Inclusivity On Reality Shows Like Love Island Always Necessary?
The Polyester Podcast
The Polyester Podcast
4.5 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Love Island is back! And as the reality series returns, so does the age old discourse; should reality tv be inclusive? Or is inclusivity on these shows a poisoned chalice that sets the 'diverse' contestants up for failure? This week Ione and Halima are discussing whether its best to let reality tv be trashy, guilty pleasures that do not reflect the wider world; or if there's a better way forward, in which inclusivity is not retroactively fitted and those of us who love the genre aren't left with a bad taste in our mouths.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Halima. |
| 0:01.1 | Hi, Ioni. |
| 0:02.0 | And hello to the listeners. Welcome to the Polyester podcast. I'm I'm the founding editor-in-chief of Polyester. And I am the author of Poor Little Sick Girls. And I'm Halima, the community editor of Polyester Seed on the Coast of Polite Podcast. This is the Sleepover Club, a feminist pop culture podcast. We put apart the hashtag discourse in the hope of making |
| 0:21.5 | some sense of it all. |
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| 1:02.2 | Halima. Gina had a great topic idea and it's kind of like does everything need to be inclusive. |
| 1:07.2 | But I think we've kind of touched upon in like previous episodes. But I think this is a good topical topic. And this is specifically we are talking or hooking this on to Love Island, which has obviously |
| 1:14.9 | started in the UK in the last couple of weeks. |
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