The Sleepover Club: The Farce Of #MeToo & Why Abuse Of Power Still Comes As No Surprise
The Polyester Podcast
The Polyester Podcast
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🗓️ 3 April 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
It's been a grim week, month, and year when it comes to abuses of power in Hollywood. As a string of stories in the past few weeks have been published pertaining to the abuse of women on film and tv sets; Ione and Eden are contemplating the effectiveness of Hollywoods activism. From allegations surrounding Sam Levinson's 'The Idol' production to Jonathan Major's assault arrest and women coming forward with accusations towards Emrata's ex and Uncut Gems producer Sebastian Bear-MclCard - the news cycle, and the state of how women are still being treated in the entertainment industry, is pretty bleak.
In what we're dubbing ‘the allegedly episode’, Ione and Eden are touching upon whatever happened to the Times Up organisation and corporate Hollywood activism, if anti-cancellation discourse is preventing recourse for those that abuse their power, why it feels like a joke when Hollywood tries to portray such narratives on screen, and how we can move forward, while attempting to make change, without losing our minds. TW: sexual assault, abuse.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Eden. Hi, Ioni. |
| 0:03.1 | And hello to the listeners. Welcome to the Polyester podcast. I'm I'm the founding editor-in-chief |
| 0:08.0 | of Polyester and the author of Poor Little Sickness. And I'm Eden and the managing editor of |
| 0:12.9 | polyester and the co-host of this podcast. This is The Sleepover Club, a feminist pop culture podcast. |
| 0:17.9 | We pull apart the hashtag discourse in the hope of making some sense |
| 0:21.1 | of it all. Before we get started, please like, rate, review and subscribe. Ioni, do we have any reviews? |
| 0:27.6 | We do. This is from Ashley Kane. Oh, Ash. I know Ashley. Do you know Ashley, you don't? Probably |
| 0:34.4 | not. Five styles, brain food. my favourite podcast. Every time I'm |
| 0:37.7 | attempting to make sense of my thoughts or feelings on a topic, this podcast does it for me |
| 0:42.0 | and makes me think even more, love you, polyester, kiss, which is very, very sweet. Brain food. |
| 0:49.6 | I like that. I think this week's episode is going to be more of, I don't even know, a brain scream. |
| 1:00.2 | Brain shrew. |
| 1:01.7 | Brain stew. |
| 1:02.7 | Yeah, great song. |
| 1:04.3 | Before we get started on this episode, as you have probably determined from the title, |
| 1:09.1 | which I don't know what it will be yet, because we're only just recording it long. |
| 1:13.2 | Big trigger warning for basically everything you can imagine |
| 1:17.4 | concerning sexual assault, |
| 1:20.1 | mistreatment of people, |
| 1:22.4 | violence against women and marginalised people, |
| 1:26.9 | abuse of power, |
| 1:28.3 | et cetera, et cetera, |
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