The Sleepover Club: The Fall Of The Wife Guys

The Polyester Podcast

Society & Culture, Arts

4.5 • 533 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Whether its the Try Guys cheating scandal, Jason Sudeikis and Olivia Wildes latest drama, John Mulaney's infidelity or any number of other male celebs who have been caught behaving badly; we're living through the fall of the wife guy. This week, Ione and Eden are discussing the rise and fall of the softest boys of them all. Once a beacon of non-toxic masculinity, with us all being backwardly charmed by a mans ability to love his wife; we're now slowly realising that it was probably an a desperate bid to garner likability all along.

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0:00.0	Hi, Eden. Hi, Ioni. And hello to the listeners. Welcome to the Polyester podcast. I'm I'm I'm the founding editor-in-chief of Plyester and the author of Poor Little Sick Girls. And I'm Eden, I'm the managing editor of Polyester and the co-host of this podcast. This is The Sleepover Club, a feminist pop culture podcast. We pull apart the hashtag discourse in the hope of making some sense of it all.
0:21.1	Before we get started, please like, rate, review and subscribe.
0:24.7	Ione, do we have any reviews?
0:26.2	We do, but it's our last one, so everyone should go and review, please, please.
0:29.7	This one, however, is by Holly Bird 11 in Great Britain, five stars, feminist fun,
0:35.8	just the right mix of intellect, casual humour and current affairs, including pop culture, all through a feminist lens,
0:41.3	keeps me on the ball with my eyes open, which is very cute. That's very cute. Do you think
0:46.6	we're funny? Validation at last. Um, so Eden, what are we talking about today? So today, we're talking about the fall of
0:59.7	the wife guys and the nice guys. I'm very excited for this one. So, yeah, first of all, yeah, so basically
1:07.0	we're talking about obviously the tri-guising, which was a few weeks ago, which
1:11.3	if you haven't had, we will get into. But basically how nice guys, all the nice guys are falling.
1:17.5	They're falling. They're, what's it called? They're crumbling. Crumbling. The house is crumbling down.
1:24.0	Rome is crumbling. It is. So what does a wife guy mean, Eden?
1:28.6	The official definition, urban dictionary, why you go to for all your official dictionary definitions,
1:33.9	wife guy, a man who takes any opportunity to mention his wife in an admiring manner,
1:39.1	which is kind of funny because it's like, I love that we have a word for just men that love their wives.
1:44.8	It's like a joke to love your wife almost.
1:48.0	Yeah.
1:49.0	But the wife guy is kind of men who post devotedly about their wives.
1:56.5	Sometimes to a suspicious degree as if they were doing it for some means of personal gain.
2:01.4	So it's like men kind of using their wives for content.
2:05.4	So they can say all these things.
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