The Sleepover Club: The Toxic Masculinity Deep Dive Part 1 - The Lasting Legacy Of 00's Bro Culture
The Polyester Podcast
The Polyester Podcast
4.5 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Picture a bro in your head, what does he look like? This week, while Halima has two weeks off, Ione is Joined by Polyester social editor Eden Young to kick off our toxic masculinity deep dive. After watching Woodstock 99, we decided to put bro culture under a critical lens; from nu-metal bands to films like American pie and how bros changed the landscape of masculinity forever.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Eden. |
| 0:01.4 | Hi, Ioni. |
| 0:02.7 | And hello to the listeners. |
| 0:04.3 | Welcome to the Polyester podcast. |
| 0:05.9 | I'm I'm a founding editor-in-chief of Polyester and the author of Poor Little Sick Girls. |
| 0:10.8 | And I'm Eden, the socials editor of Polyesterine. |
| 0:13.3 | This is The Sleepover Club, a feminist pop culture podcast. |
| 0:17.0 | We pull apart the hashtag discourse in the hope of making some sense of it all. |
| 0:20.9 | Before we get started, please like, rate, review and subscribe. |
| 0:24.8 | Wait, what does that say? |
| 0:26.7 | Don't worry. |
| 0:28.0 | And we do have a new review today. |
| 0:30.9 | It is by Yo Dude in Great Britain. |
| 0:34.6 | Hello. |
| 0:35.4 | Love, five stars. |
| 0:36.7 | Followed your Insta for a while but finally listened to a podcast today. |
| 0:39.7 | And now I've listened to six within 24 hours. So easy to listen to the time flies by, which is very sweet. |
| 0:47.6 | Gorgeous. Thank you, yo, doge. So today you will have noticed it is obviously Eden instead of Halima. |
| 0:53.3 | So Eden is covering for |
| 0:55.3 | Halima while she's off for the next two weeks what are we talking about today Eden today we're |
| 1:02.0 | talking about the rise and fall of naughty's bro culture and how it's kind of rearing its ugly |
| 1:07.9 | head again so when like we all plan episodes together as a team, basically, and I'd watched Woodstock |
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