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Diabolical Lies

What is a Woman? The Shifting Gender Aesthetics of the "New Right"

Diabolical Lies

Katie Gatti Tassin & Caro Claire Burke

Society & Culture, News

4.8607 Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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A woman’s appearance has always been inseparable from her message in politics. So what does this latest, conspicuous shift signal? In this episode, we’re taking a question the New Right is obsessed with—what is a woman?—and answering it by analyzing the aesthetic transformations of the women they tolerate becoming prominent and visible within their coalition.

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0:00.0

Today's episode of Diabolical Lies was brought to you by Hair by Chrissy's patent on Middle Part Utah Hair and their two-day shipping to Washington, D.C., Peter Thiel's relentless insistence on tracking your period, a discontinued urban decay naked, smoky eye shadow palette, and Christine Holmes, dead puppy.

0:19.5

Oh my God, urban decay taking astray.

0:24.0

Yes, Carrow.

0:25.1

Today, I want to talk to you about the shifting aesthetics and gender norms in the

0:31.2

new right, or what one substack I found called Edge Lord Conservatism.

0:36.6

Ooh.

0:38.0

Edglord chic.

0:39.5

So while you took us on a historical journey for the ages through legal precedent surrounding

0:45.8

reproductive justice, I am going to take us on a historical journey through Fox News hosts

0:51.4

hairstyles and what they tell us about the degradation of women's

0:55.5

rights. How does that sound? Oh my God, I'm so fucking pumped. The only thing that I have had

0:59.9

access to while you've been planning this outline is just photos from time to time. And I just feel

1:05.1

like I have just been edging in the best way possible for this conversation. I feel like

1:10.1

Charlie on Always Sunny with the murder board.

1:13.2

I just have pictures of Kirsty Nome before and after her makeover being like, what does it mean?

1:19.2

So, yeah, I see this episode as picking up and braiding together a few of the threads that we've introduced before.

1:26.2

So the themes in blonde highlights are gender gender-affirming care, our episode about fillers,

1:32.5

the EV Magazine Deep Dive, and even our most recent episode about the Facebook and TikTok

1:37.6

algorithms.

1:38.6

So if you're a new listener and you like this episode, I would definitely recommend listening

1:43.5

to those two. And Caro, I think you had one

1:46.5

piece of housekeeping for us as well. Yes. So we've been very happy to see this podcast continue to grow.

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