Cartoon Swoons: Weird Childhood Crushes with Pip Ako

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11/15/22 • 37 min

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Mads World

Hellooooo! Welcome to Season 7, Episode 7 of Mads World! Cartoon Swoons: Weird Childhood Crushes with Pip Ako!

This week I am joined by my good friend Philippa, who you may remember from some of my previous eps about The Ick, and your Most Embarrasing Story submissions.She’s so much fun and and we love a listener submissions episode, so this in this ep we talk all about our own weirdest childhood crushes alongside all of your responses. You all submitted your most cursed crushes for me and Pip to dissect and your answers were SO funny. Hope you enjoy.

Submit your dating questions through madsworld.mp3, and my guests and I will answer them on the show! You will remain anonymous.

All names within stories have been changed unless explicitly said so within the show.

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Cover Art: Veredien

Music: The.Jones.Project_93

Hellooooo! Welcome to Season 7, Episode 7 of Mads World! Cartoon Swoons: Weird Childhood Crushes with Pip Ako!

Submit your dating questions through madsworld.mp3, and my guests and I will answer them on the show! You will remain anonymous.

All names within stories have been changed unless explicitly said so within the show.

Click here to support the show for the price of a coffee.

Cover Art: Veredien

Music: The.Jones.Project_93

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Notes on Heartbreak: The Beauty, Pain and Messiness of Love with Annie Lord

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Hellooooo! Welcome to Season 7, Episode 6 of Mads World! Notes on Heartbreak: The Beauty, Pain and Messiness of Love with Annie Lord!

This week I am joined by author and Vogue columnist, Annie Lord! Annie has written for a number of publications including Vice, The Sunday Times, The Independent and she now has a dating column in Vogue.

Annie joins me in this episode to speak all about her brilliant new book, Notes on Heartbreak, which I adored and chewed through cover to cover. The book is a fierce, honest and raw love story told in reverse, beginning with a devastating and unexpected break-up.

As Annie goes through the rollercoaster of a broken heart, her beautiful memoir revisits the past, from the moment she first fell in love, the esoteric jokes and deep tangle of lives in a long-term relationship, to the months that saw the gradual breakdown of a five year long bond. I have to say, I cried a few times reading it (happy and sad tears).

A stunning exploration of love and heartbreak, the book is so much more than a one about one singular break-up. It is an unflinchingly honest and candidly written story of the simultaneous joy and pain of being in love. If you’ve been through a break-up, this ones for you, a book about the best and worst of love: the euphoric and the painful, the beautiful and the messy.

Submit your dating questions through madsworld.mp3, and my guests and I will answer them on the show! You will remain anonymous.

All names within stories have been changed unless explicitly said so within the show.

Click here to support the show for the price of a coffee.

Cover Art: Veredien

Music: The.Jones.Project_93

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Masslighting: Toxic Masculinity and Internalised Misogyny with Dr Jessica Taylor

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Hellooooo! Welcome to Season 7, Episode 8 of Mads World! Masslighting: Toxic Masculinity and Internalised Misogyny with Dr Jessica Taylor!

This week I am joined by British author, feminist campaigner and psychologist Dr Jessica Taylor. Jess is the founder of VictimFocus, which she describes as "a company designed to challenge and change the victim blaming practices in social care, policing, mental health and support services all over the world”.

In 2019, Jess completed her PhD in forensic psychology from the University of Birmingham with a thesis titled ‘Logically, I know I’m not to blame but I still feel to blame’: exploring and measuring victim blaming and self-blame of women who have been subjected to sexual violence. She was later recognized for her "contribution to the psychology of victim blaming of women, her work in mental health and her contribution to feminism" by the Royal Society of Arts.

In 2020, Jess self-published her thesis as a book titled Why Women are Blamed for Everything. Based on three years of doctoral research and 10 years of practice with women and girls, the book focuses on the reasons why society and individual psychology blames women for male violence committed against them.

This year, Jess published her second book, Sexy But Psycho: Uncovering the Labelling of Women and Girls through Constable. She described it as ”mixture of academic research, history, psychology and real-life stories of women and girls who have been told that they are mentally ill, instead of being listened to”. The book focuses on how mental illness has historically been used to discredit women, focusing especially on the 2000s and Britney Spears.

In this episode, we talk about the effects of buzzwords like toxic and gaslighting, what terms like toxic masculinity and machismo actually mean and how this affects men and women independently, and unpacking internalized misogyny.

Submit your dating questions through madsworld.mp3, and my guests and I will answer them on the show! You will remain anonymous.

All names within stories have been changed unless explicity said so within the show.

Click here to support the show for the price of a coffee.

Cover Art: Veredien

Music: The.Jones.Project_93

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