4.8 • 607 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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