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Still Processing

We're Here For Your Anger, Jessica Walter

Still Processing

The New York Times

News Commentary, Society & Culture, News, Arts

4.89.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

When actor Jessica Walter said fellow co-star Jeffrey Tambor verbally harassed her on the set of "Arrested Development," the show’s lead, Jason Bateman, jumped to Tambor’s defense -- and we noticed. This week, we suss out what this interaction -- documented in sound -- shows us about the subtle and not-so-subtle ways that we're taught to minimize the experiences of women. We juxtapose Jessica Walter's quiet, composed anger with Asia Argento's seething indictment at Cannes, and interrogate the stakes that make women -- and other marginalized groups -- temper their rage. What would happen if our culture allowed these groups to more fully occupy their anger? Plus, we talk about the cancellation of ABC's "Roseanne," because even though on some level justice has been done, we're still mad. Discussed this week: "'Reparations Happy Hour' Invites White People to Pay for Drinks" (Daniel Victor, The New York Times, 26 May 2018)"El Anillo" (Jennifer Lopez, 2018)"Shades of Blue" (Kelsey Lu, 2018)Agnes Varda and Cate Blanchett at Cannes 2018Asia Argento at Cannes 2018"'Arrested Development:' We Sat Down With the Cast. It Got Raw." (Sopan Deb, The New York Times, 23 May 2018)

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm Jenna Wortham.

0:01.3

I'm Wesley Morris.

0:02.5

We're two culture writers at the New York Times.

0:06.5

This is still processing.

0:13.1

We're back.

0:18.4

It's fully summer.

0:19.4

I'm in summer deluxe mode.

0:20.7

I don't know what mode you're in.

0:21.8

I'm fully in summer deluxe mode.

0:23.4

I'm in summer deluxe mode because I can't not be in it.

0:27.1

I'm in it by association.

0:28.5

So this week on the show, we're talking about women and their anger.

0:33.5

We've seen it manifest from actresses, Jessica Walter, Ajay Agento.

0:38.5

And it struck both of us as revealing something really sinister about the ways in which women

0:44.1

are suppressed in their various workplaces.

0:46.7

We want to talk about it, what it means, and how it feels to watch it unfold and also

0:51.2

not really go anywhere.

0:53.0

Yes.

0:54.0

But before we get into that, Wesley, I'm dying to know what tabs do you have?

0:58.5

I'm going to start with a complaint.

1:02.3

I just want to put a pin in this conversation that we are having about what why people owe

1:07.6

anybody and reparations happy hour.

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