#TimesUp - Can The Red Carpet Be A Harbinger Of Social Change? And Toadmeister’s Titty-Tweets
The High Low
The High Low
4.8 • 9.6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2018
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Hello, you stable geniuses! (Or as the pedants may prefer, genii.)
The Golden Globes happened on Sunday night in Hollywood and The High Low has many a point to discuss:
Does the #TimesUp movement - where actors wore black dresses on the red carpet, in solidarity with victims of sexual harassment - convey a real and true political message? Can a gown be a harbinger for social change? The New York Times’ T Magazine Fashion Critic, Alexander Fury, provides an eloquent argument in favour. Or, is it mere Hollywood “fakery’ - as actor Rose McGowan denounced it.
Self-deprecating and woke as he was, should Seth Meyers have been the host... or should it have been a woman?
And what about Natalie Portman, who pointed out that no female directors were nominated for best director? No amount of black gowns can cloak that.
Either way, Justin Timberlake *perhaps* missed the point. “Damn my wife looks hot! #timesup” the Trousersnake tweeted.
From Hollywood, to Westminster. Also on this weekend agenda, journalist Toby Young’s resignation from his university regulator role, for the Office for Students - just 8 days in the job - after thousands of Young’s archive ‘titty tweets’ caused 20,000 people to sign a petition arguing for his sacking.
Is a man, or woman, the sum of their tweets? Should your ability to be do your job dependent on your social media timeline? Possibly not. But when you become more known for a tweet that reads “I had my dick up her arse, mate” than your work in the education sector, we wonder if, possibly, a governmental role isn’t quite for you.
Episode takeaway, kids: the internet never forgets.
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Links
Listening
You & Yours - on parity, post Carrie Gracie’s resignation from the BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qps9
Sarah Jessica Parker on The Nerdist: https://nerdist.com/nerdist-829-sarah-jessica-parker/
Janeane Garofalo on Guys We F****d: https://soundcloud.com/guyswefucked/0173-01042017-janeane-garofalo
Sandi Toksvig on Table Manners with Jessie Ware: https://www.acast.com/tablemanners/ep7-sanditoksvig
Reading
The Female Persuasion, by Meg Wolitzer
https://www.amazon.com/Female-Persuasion-Novel-Meg-Wolitzer/dp/1594488401
Toxic Femininity, by Ginny Hogan for The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/examples-of-toxic-femininity-in-the-workplace/amp
Belle Gibson: the wellness blogger who fooled the world, by Beau Donelly and Nick Toscano for The Sunday Times magazine
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 42 of The High Low. The current affairs and pop culture pop cars |
| 0:20.5 | brought to you by journalist Dolly Alderton and Pandora Sykes. |
| 0:25.0 | Bonjourner! Bonjourner indeed. |
| 0:27.2 | Thank you so much to everyone who loved episode 41 so much. We've got a hell of a lot of love for episode 41. |
| 0:32.9 | I spent most of Sunday replying to emails from fellow up the doff women saying thank you for articulating what I couldn't or felt I shouldn't. |
| 0:42.0 | I'm so glad some of you found solace in my crass ramblings. I've got a new thing to add by the way. I'm not snore. |
| 0:49.1 | Have you never snore before? |
| 0:50.1 | Never snore before. I've been a very quiet delicate sleeper. |
| 0:52.9 | I found my husband sleeping on the sofa last night at first I thought he'd been snatched. |
| 0:56.9 | And then I found him culled up and made him come back because I said I don't like sleeping alone. |
| 1:02.9 | Which is just so unfair. Not only did he feel no but it's not very nice to me. |
| 1:07.9 | It's not only was he forced to abandon the marital bed because of my snoring. |
| 1:12.9 | It was forced to get back in. It was forced to get because I don't like sleeping alone. |
| 1:15.9 | We were just to say that as I was falling asleep last night I was like oh I'm going to do that thing that I do |
| 1:22.9 | where I just luxuriate and having the whole bed and I'm going to sleep completely on the diagonal. |
| 1:27.9 | I do it as a treat sometimes because you can only do it. |
| 1:30.9 | It's so trippy. |
| 1:31.9 | While you're single it's lovely and I really do miss it whenever I have a partner. |
| 1:35.9 | And I was just like I don't know if I'm going to share a bed again. |
| 1:38.9 | I know. I know. |
| 1:39.9 | I don't know how I'm going to do it. I love sleeping alone. |
| 1:42.9 | No I complete. I know what you mean. I'm not someone who sleeps in a spoon. |
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