The Sleepover Club: The Cult Of Confidence Feminism
The Polyester Podcast
The Polyester Podcast
4.5 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
We're told being confident is the answer to all of life's problems. That to be a good feminist, or friend, or to excel at your job and learn to love yourself, you must be confident. But when did empowerment become dependent on our ability to be believe in ourselves? And is the cult of confidence merely a distraction that keeps us from tackling real systemic oppression?
This week Ione and Halima are discussing how the pressure to be confidence is actually holding us back, and how we can find a balance between individualism masked as self improvement and believing in ourselves for the greater good.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Halima. |
| 0:01.1 | Hi, Ioni. |
| 0:02.1 | And hello to all of you wonderful listeners. Welcome to the Polyester podcast. I'm Ayoni. I'm the founder and chief of Polyester. I'm also the author of Four Little Sick Girls, which comes out next fucking week. And I'm Halima, the community editor, Polyester scene. I'm the course of the Polyester podcast. This is The Sleepover Clock, a feminist pop culture podcast. |
| 0:22.2 | We pull apart the hashtag discourse in the hope of making some sense of it all. |
| 0:26.1 | Before we get started, please like, rate, review and subscribe. |
| 0:29.3 | This week we have a review from the lovely Gemma from our Instagram DMs. |
| 0:33.9 | Gemma says, I can't leave a review on the pod this week on Spotify, but I want to say that my life is better since finding the polyester podcast the way being a hater is so much fun Ep spoke to my soul and I've considered a personal birthday present from you guys it's fucking excellent to hear relevant takes that I'm just an echo of the Instagrama-branded feminism that seeped into so many |
| 0:54.4 | conversations. You guys just get it. It's a genre and you girls are firmly on my podcast roster. |
| 1:01.4 | I hate that TikTok sound, but I love her. I love you, Gemma. It's a genre. I hate it. I didn't |
| 1:07.6 | realize it's like, um, uh, the only reason I hate it is because I saw our, um, |
| 1:13.7 | least favorite RuPaul's Drag Race Girl do a video to it. |
| 1:19.5 | Um, and it is like, it's a bab. |
| 1:22.0 | It's genre. |
| 1:22.9 | It's a genre. |
| 1:23.7 | I hate it. |
| 1:25.2 | Okay, okay. |
| 1:26.2 | This is me and I only second time recording this intro. What are you chance to burn? We were having technical difficulties. We are, we are. But we're back your baby. We're back, baby. But yes, I love that. Review so much. Thank you, Gemma. Thanks, Gemma. Guys, please review us. We love reading reading them on the podcast. Review us on Spotify and Apple TV, whatever it's called. Apple TV? Apple Podcast. Someone give us an Apple TV show. What we're talking about this week, I mean? We are talking about the cult of confidence, feminism. Yeah, we are. This is my idea. Yeah, it was her idea. |
| 2:02.1 | That's for Halima. |
| 2:03.2 | Snaps for Halima. I was reading a book by Kath and Angel. Firstly, I love her name. Catherine Angel is a gorgeous name. But it's called Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again, Women and Desiring the Age of Consent. And the book is all about this idea. because I guess like a few years ago, |
| 2:16.9 | especially with Tumblr feminism |
| 2:18.7 | and Twitter feminism, people were talking about consent |
| 2:20.6 | and the... And the book is all about this idea. Because I guess like a few years ago, especially with Tumblr feminism and Twitter feminism, |
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