The Sleepover Club: Should We All Be Bimbos? Part One
The Polyester Podcast
The Polyester Podcast
4.5 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The internet has decided: the bimbo is back. But what does a return to bimboism mean for feminism? Is it just a regression into outdated stereotypes, or a reclamation of a set of aesthetic codes that have previously harmed us? And most importantly, is it really radical to be a bimbo?
Halima and Ione are dissecting it all; from the problematic Pam and Tommy miniseries, to leftist women embracing being a bimbo with their whole heart and whether this resurgence in popularity is just another symptom of our early 00's nostalgia. One things for certain; the bimbo revolution must be intersectional!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Halima. |
| 0:01.3 | Hi, Ioni. |
| 0:02.5 | And hello to the listeners, especially hello to Laura Lulu 3, who left us a review, which I will read out in a minute. |
| 0:09.6 | But for now, welcome to the Polyester podcast. |
| 0:12.3 | I'm actually Ioni this week. |
| 0:14.5 | And I'm the founding editor-in-chief of Polyester Online, imprint and everywhere else. |
| 0:19.1 | And I'm actually Halima, the community editor at Polyester Zine, and the co-host of the |
| 0:23.6 | Polyester podcast. |
| 0:25.0 | We publish weekly episodes and this week we have another gorgeous sleepover club episode |
| 0:29.0 | for you where we discuss all the things that we want to talk about. |
| 0:34.3 | I'm just keeping that in. |
| 0:38.0 | And soon enough, we'll have an obsessions episode where we talk somebody we admire up or something that has nothing to do with how they generate their income. |
| 0:45.3 | So before we get into this week, I will read out our five-star review all the way from the United States of America. |
| 0:52.4 | Love five stars. I love this podcast so much. |
| 0:55.5 | Important topics with a fresh take and so fun to listen to the two. |
| 0:59.1 | Favorite new podcast, Smiley Face. |
| 1:01.0 | Which is so nice. |
| 1:02.0 | Thank you so much. |
| 1:03.0 | If you would like to leave her a view, please do. |
| 1:05.5 | And thank you for all of your nice and not so nice. |
| 1:08.0 | Instagram engagement this week on the last two weeks podcast episode. How are you |
| 1:14.2 | feeling, Halima? I'm feeling good. I always feel really nervous on the do the podcast. |
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