The Waves: The Bama Rush to Trad Wife Pipeline

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🗓️ 7 September 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode of The Waves, it’s rush time! Host Kat Chow is diving deep into the #BamaRush phenomenon that has taken over the internet recently. She’s joined by professor and New York Times columnist Tressie McMillan Cottom to talk about her recent article, “In Alabama, White Tide Rushes On” They dig into the very specific “type” of college student that joins the Alabama sorority, the race and gender implications of the Greek “Machine” and the cuteness of it all. Fighter Reading: Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting by Sianne Ngai HBO documentary Bama Rush (2023) directed by Rachel Fleit In Slate Plus: Unpacking Tressie’s piece The Enduring, Invisible Power of Blond, and all the internet chaos it caused. If you liked this episode, check out: How Drake Betrayed Megan Thee Stallion Podcast production by Cheyna Roth and Vic Whitley-Berry with editorial oversight by Daisy Rosario and Alicia Montgomery. Send your comments and recommendations on what to cover to [email protected]. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get an ad-free experience across the network and exclusive content on many shows—you’ll also be supporting the work we do here on How To!. Sign up now at slate.com/thewavesplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I made you think you was real.
0:02.0	My name is Caden Sinclair.
0:04.0	Some people call us American royalty.
0:06.0	We were liars.
0:07.0	A new series on Prime Video.
0:09.0	We were happy. We wanted for nothing.
0:12.0	Based on the best-selling novel.
0:15.0	Something terrible happened last summer,
0:17.0	and I have no memory of what or who hurt me.
0:20.0	No one in my family will tell me. When
0:22.9	you're left for dead, you want answers. We will liars. New series, watch now, only on Prime Video.
0:33.6	Welcome to The Waves, Slate's podcast about gender and loud synchronized chants and very expensive bracelets.
0:47.0	So kind of everything.
0:50.0	For the next four weeks, you get to hear me, Kat Chow, fall down this giant rabbit hole of something I cannot stop thinking about.
0:58.7	And this week, that rabbit hole is more like a rabbit TikTok vortex, if that's even a thing.
1:07.8	Helping me out of that vortex, or maybe deep in it with me, is the sociologist and MacArthur
1:14.8	genius and New York Times columnist Tressy McMillan Cotton.
1:19.4	And you'll hear from Tressy in just a bit.
1:23.4	First, two important words.
1:27.5	Bama Rush.
1:29.4	If you were Zeta at the University of Alabama, please come to the stage for a roll car.
1:38.8	Bama Rush is for the uninitiated, called sorority formal recruitment at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa.
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