Listeners, we're still on our summer break during this hot and beautiful month of July.

But don't fret, we're dropping episodes every Tuesday that we're gone.

Today's episode comes from Gender War Games, the podcast from Kristen Conger and unladylike media.

Hannah and I had Kristen on our show, Material Girls, for the episode Avrilavine's clone

Melissa by social surveillance. In that episode, we talked about the silliness and the issues

with conspiracy theories and the way they spread.

If you haven't listened to that episode, I really recommend it.

But for now, get ready for a conversation about how white womanhood is activated, politically,

culturally, algorithmically, to reinforce systems of power.

From Tradwife aesthetics to turf rhetoric,

strategic essentialism to state violence. We aim to make sense of how white femininity gets mobilized.

Kristen is brilliant, and we think you'll absolutely love this episode and her work,

if you aren't already familiar with it.

Well, that's it for now. Enjoy the episode.

A 30-country survey from Ipsos and King's College of London that came out in March 2025 found that 68% of people say gender equality matters to them personally. The majority thinks efforts to

advance it are a positive. And also get this, more Gen Z women identify as feminist than any generation

before. And yet, of course, we're in the midst of a gender war, allegedly. There is certainly

an attack on gender itself and gender nonconformity. And yes, there are a lot of

Gen Z men and millennial women, I will say, based off of this Ipsos poll, who think that

feminism just went too far. But guess what else that 30 country survey found?

The biggest tension that all of us feel, biggest societal tension,

it's not between men and women.

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