The Sleepover Club: What The Don't Worry Darling Drama Says About Our Current Cultural Climate

The Polyester Podcast

Society & Culture, Arts

4.5 • 533 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

If you're anything like us, the drama surrounding Don't Worry Darling has been consuming your every waking thought. Harry Styles spat on Chris Pine! Olivia Wilde lied! Florence Pugh turned up and drank aperol spritz defiantly! But with two weeks until any of us see the actual film, we're breaking down what the drama means for the larger cultural moment we're living in. From post me-too sentiment and the rehabilitation of rotten men, to two women semi-fighting publicly and the cast hooking up on set; we're discussing both the drama itself and how the internet has interpreted, meme'd, and dissected the story — making it impossible to separate reality from fiction.

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0:00.0	Hi, Halima.
0:01.4	Hi, Ioni.
0:02.4	And hello to the listeners. Welcome to the Polyester podcast. I'm Ayoni and I'm the founding editor-in-chief of polyester and the author of Four Little Sit Girls. I'm Halima, the community editor, polyester scene and the co-st of Polyester 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.
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0:53.7	boom boom i feel like i'm i'm going to be really like, it's like, you know, the tweet that's like, breathable and submissive? Like, not like actually like that, but like my voice is like really like low, you know. Do you want to say why? I had a surgery, guys, but I'm okay, where I'm fine.
1:13.7	They had to move a cyst, a bone from my neck, and a tiny base of my tongue.
1:19.5	It's actually scary times.
1:21.2	It's scary times, dude.
1:22.5	But I'm all good, more good.
1:23.9	I have a massive, like, scar on my neck.
1:25.9	Yeah, it's bad.
1:26.8	That's all. Bad ass, baby. Some you see me in person, just like, compliment my scar, you know. But, yeah, so good, baby. And you should see us in person because if you're a dollhouse member, we're having an event soon. So true, right. So you just sign up to come. Yeah, let's go, baby. London people. Anyway, I'm not doing more details than that, so I just sign up to come yeah let's go baby london people anyway i'm not doing
1:46.8	more details than that because i don't want gate crashes period if you're not part of the dog else
1:51.4	you can calm love it's true it's true anyway i'm very excited about this episode
1:56.8	it's all i've been talking about a week all week so today we're talking about the don't worry darling drama
2:06.5	and also how it feeds into just like our wider attitudes and and I don't know the word but basically how we are consuming celebrity drama and what it's saying about us when it's serious and also unsurious.
2:26.0	So I think we should start with a breakdown of the drama because I've been asked a couple of times on text messages for people
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