The Waves: Can Feminists Visit FBoy Island?

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🗓️ 7 August 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode of The Waves, Waves producer Cheyna Roth and Slate senior culture editor Allegra Frank take a trip to FBoy Island. They discuss the ups and sexisms of HBO Max’s newest dating show and question why the narrative of women saving men persists. Later in the show, Allegra and Cheyna talk about the deception inherent in these shows and ask why everyone is the same type of beautiful. Recommendations: Allegra: Keeping your hands busy during the final days of summer with Pokémon UNITE. Cheyna: The children’s books authors and illustrators Lauren and Natalia O’Hara, especially their book The Bandit Queen. Podcast production by Cheyna Roth with editorial oversight by Susan Matthews and June Thomas. Send your comments and recommendations on what to cover to [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This podcast contains explicit language.
0:02.7	This is the waves.
0:04.7	This is the waves.
0:06.2	This is the waves.
0:07.2	This is the waves.
0:08.2	This is the waves.
0:10.2	This is the waves.
0:15.9	Welcome to the waves.
0:17.3	Slates podcast about gender, feminism, and refusing to say F-boy.
0:22.9	Because when a show is on Tony Sopranos' sister network, we just say, fuck boy.
0:28.7	Every episode you get a new pair of women to talk about the thing we can't get off our
0:32.5	minds.
0:33.5	And for today, you've got me, Shayna Roth, producer of This Show, The Waves, and all
0:38.1	around podcast producer for Slate.
0:40.7	And you've got me, Allegra Frank, a senior editor for Slates Culture Team.
0:46.5	A few years ago, I used to spend most Thursday nights with my friend Libby watching The Bachelor
0:52.6	or The Bachelor at.
0:53.6	And this was one of honestly my favorite things to do because we would make a big night
0:58.5	of it, we would have drinks, we would have fancy snacks.
1:01.8	But I was always kind of wondering in the back of my mind, we were too successful, smart,
1:08.1	self identifying feminists.
1:09.7	And was it okay that we were watching this crazy dating reality show?
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