Hi, Eden. Hi, Ioni. And hello to the listeners. Welcome to the Polyester podcast. I'm I'm a founding editor-in-chief of polyester and the author of Poor Little Sick Girls.

And I'm Eden, the socials editor of polyesterine. 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.

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So today is part two of our deep dive into toxic masculinity.

Last week we talked about broculture of the early naughty.

So if you haven't listened to Go and Catch Up today, what are we talking about Eden?

So we're talking about the return of broculture and toxic masculinity

and how it's kind of taken a new form.

So less in the form of like music and films and television programs

and it's kind of shifted onto other platforms like podcasts

and other forms of social media.

Yeah, it's very interesting because we did the, every week

if you don't follow us on Instagram, we do these like polls and question boxes relating to the

podcast. And I can't remember what the question was, Eden. Do you remember what it was?

I can't remember. I wrote it as well. Yeah, Eden literally wrote it, but okay. It was something about like, what do you think bro culture is now? Or like, what do you think of bro culture? Did it ever go away? And loads of people were saying that it's basically in cell culture. And we, that's what we want to discuss anyway. So great news that you are on the same track as us.

I also thought another really interesting thing that someone brought up in the question box was that they were saying how in all those early naughty's films,

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