The Sleepover Club: Why Can't We Quit Our Obsession With It Girls?
The Polyester Podcast
The Polyester Podcast
4.5 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
The it girl is a tradition as old as time itself; impossible cool and beautiful in equal measures, they set not only the tone for culture and beauty standards, put fill our brains with aspirations of how we should be living our lives. But why, in 2022, are we still obsessed with it girls?
With the archetypal it girl being white, cisgender, skinny and obscenely rich, surely it's time we stop putting these women on pedestals? Or are our it girls shifting, away from old markers of success and towards an inclusive future? Ione and Halima are discussing whether in the age of social media, we all become our own it girls, as well as dissecting the 'that girl' TikTok trend and debating if being an it girl is ever a good thing.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Helima. |
| 0:01.0 | Hi, Iony Gamble. |
| 0:02.2 | And hello to the listeners. |
| 0:04.0 | Welcome to the Polyester podcast. |
| 0:05.7 | I'm I'm Ioni Gamble. |
| 0:07.4 | And I'm the founding editor-in-chief of Polyester Online, in print and everywhere else. |
| 0:12.7 | And I'm Halima, the community editor at Polyester Scene and the co-hosts of a Polyester podcast. |
| 0:17.2 | This week, we have a Sleepover Club episode where we discuss all of the things you usually |
| 0:22.3 | discuss at a sleepover. |
| 0:24.7 | And soon enough, we'll have an obsessions episode where we speak to somebody we admire |
| 0:28.3 | about something that's nothing to do with how they generate their income. |
| 0:31.8 | Hey-yo, okay, let's get started. |
| 0:34.4 | Wait before we get started. |
| 0:37.1 | I would like to remind you all if you are enjoying this |
| 0:39.6 | podcast please follow or subscribe or whatever you do on whichever platform you like and please please |
| 0:45.9 | please leave us a rate a review and tell your mates yeah lema what are we doing today we're talking |
| 0:52.1 | about gorils the the gorils. |
| 0:54.6 | The girls. |
| 0:55.8 | Okay, so I got confused because I thought we're talking about that girl, and then I know |
| 1:01.1 | now we're talking about the it girl. |
| 1:02.8 | What is the difference, Halima? |
| 1:04.4 | Okay, so that girl, as defined by Urban Dictionary, is known mostly on TikTok. |
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