Rehash

Hannah and Maia unpack the horrors of the feminist fashion world and its posterchild, Leandra Medine (founder of Man Repeller). Was Man Repeller's demise really a death rattle for the girlboss, post-feminism era? Or was this just a blip in the timeline? Join us as we digress about Moonlight v. La La Land, whether emo and Abercrombie could ever be bedfellows, 5000 different pronunciations of Tavi Gevinson's name (and the Dhoom movies), and a fun game of spot the difference with a pair black fishnet tights.

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Sources:

Claire Lampen, “Upper East Sider Realizes She’s Privileged”, The Cut (2021)

https://www.thecut.com/2021/08/leandra-medine-says-she-always-thought-she-was-poor.html

Leandra M. Cohen, “Where We Go From Here: A Message for the MR Commnunity”, Repeller (2020) https://repeller.com/man-repeller-open-letter/

“The Tanning of America pt. 1”, The Cutting Room Floor (2021)

Rebecca Jennings, “The racial reckoning in women’s media”, Vox (2020) https://www.vox.com/the-goods/21287045/refinery29-black-employees-man-repeller-cosmopolitan-who-what-wear-vogue

Leandra M. Cohen “I Owe You Better: A Commitment to the Future”, Repeller (2020)

https://repeller.com/i-owe-you-better-a-commitment-to-the-future/

Leandra M. Cohen “What I Wish I Knew When I Got Married” Repeller (2017)

https://repeller.com/getting-married-advice/

Rachel Tashjian, “What Happened to Man Repeller?, GQ (2020) https://www.gq.com/story/what-happened-to-man-repeller

Meredith Galante, “How A 22-Year-Old Blogger Wound Up On The Runway At New York Fashion Week”, Insider (2011) https://www.businessinsider.com/man-repeller-leandra-medine-blogger-fashion-2011-9

Benjamin Wallace, “What’s So Alluring About a Woman Known as Man Repeller?”, The Cut (2014) https://www.thecut.com/2014/02/man-repeller-leandra-medine-profile.html

Ever since Serial burst onto the scene back in 2015 , it birthed not only the world of podcasting itself, but an entire cottage industry of true crime podcasts, each one more ethically dubious than the last. But one such podcast may be, at least by title, the very worst: My Favorite Murder. This wildly popular series has been criticized over the years for its flippant water-cooler recounting of people’s real life traumas. And while My Favorite Murder made efforts to correct some of its wrongs, it has facilitated an avid online fandom called Murderinos, comprised mostly of self-proclaimed mentally ill girlies who have grown so prominent on the internet as to embody their own subculture. In this episode, Hannah and Maia discuss the bizarre formation of this alt-girl army, question arbitrary lines drawn in the true crime sand, and ponder whether shame is sometimes a good thing. Tangents include: Hannah and Maia undergoing public couple’s therapy, and Hannah’s coining of the term “shame-negative’.

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You wanna be on top? Well then girl, go do some exploitation! Hannah and Maia discuss the once revered, now maligned figure of the GirlbossTM. Where did she come from? How did she get here? And why does she keep telling us to wash our face? We think sometimes you have to stop and consider, maybe becoming the #1 event planner in your state doesn't make you Malala. Join us for an unpacking of the She-EO, the world's fastest crash course on women in the workplace, Hannah's arduous journey towards building her bed, and whether or not we should put the "C" word on a t-shirt (we should).

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SOURCES:

Isabel Sloan, “How Girlboss Became a Slur”, Early Magazine (2021) https://www.earlymagazine.com/articles/how-girlboss-became-a-slur

“Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss”, Know Your Meme https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/gaslight-gatekeep-girlboss

Alex Abad-Santos, “The death of the girlboss”, Vox (2021) https://www.vox.com/22466574/gaslight-gatekeep-girlboss-meaning

Sophia Amoruso, “#GIRLBOSS”, (2014), Penguin Publishing Group

Rachel Hollis, “Girl, Stop Apologizing” (2019), Harper Collins

Constance Grady, “Why The Author of Girl, Stop Apologizing had to Apologize Twice in One Week” (2021), Vox https://www.vox.com/culture/22373865/rachel-hollis-controversy-harriet-tubman-girl-wash-your-face-stop-apologizing-unrelatable

Hannah Ewens, “The Girlboss Has Evolved into an Even More Powerful Form” (2019), Vice https://www.vice.com/en/article/ywy7gj/girlboss-women-entrepreneurs-feminism-capitalism-class-irony

Emily Yellin, “Lining up for Wartime Weddings” (2017), The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/weddings/165-years-of-wedding-announcements/world-war-two-weddings

Erin Gloria Ryan, “The Short List: Women at Work” (2014), The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/18/books/review/sophia-amorusos-girlboss-and-more.html

Remember when Kim Kardashian invented butts? Paper Magazine sure would like us to. When they released their scintillating cover issue of Kim K in a sequinned dress, balancing a champagne glass on her formidable silicone buttocks, Paper Mag declared: “Break the Internet Kim Kardashian” And break it she did. In this episode, Hannah and Maia trace Kim Kardashian’s transformation from trashy reality star to fashionista de jour. Since the Paper cover, and with the help of Kanye West, Kim’s body has become the subject of a twisted performance art. But it’s also generated controversy - creating unhealthy trends, grifting from the natural features of Black women, and now disappearing into what we everyone has deemed a “skinny renaissance”. Digression includes: Maia getting riled up about Timothée and Kylie’s fabled romantic union.

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SOURCES

1. Joe Zee, “In Defense of Kim Kardashian and the Editors of Paper Magazine and Why This Cover Makes Sense” (12/11/14), Yahoo
2. Jake Hall, “exploring the complicated relationship between jean-paul goude and grace jones”, (21/04/16) i-D
3. David Hershkovits, “How Kim KArdashian broke the Internet with her butt” (17/12/14), The Guardian
4. Blue Telusma “Kim Kardashian doesn’t realize she’s the butt of an old racial joke” (12/11/14), the grio
5. Justin Parkinson, “The Significance of Sarah Baartman” (07/01/16), BBC
6. Janell Hobson, “Remnants of Venus: Signifying Black Beauty and Sexuality” (2018), Women’s studies Quarterly, The Feminist Press
7. Nolan Feeney, “Anna Wintour Implies Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are not ‘Deeply Tasteful’”. (19/11/14)
8. Cleo Gould, “From silicone implants and fat transfers to bubble butts and a high mortality rate, we investigate whether the BBL is the most dangerous cosmetic surgery of all” (2019), Dazed
9. Rachel Tashjian, “How Jennifer Lopez’s Versace Dress Created Google Images” (2019), GQ.
10. John Ortved, “Paper Magazine, The Oral History: ‘They Were Wide Open’ (2023), The New York Times
11. Eric Wilson, “Kim Kardashian Inc.” (17/11/2010), The New York Times.
12. Natasha Singer, “The democratization of plastic surgery” (2007), The New York Times,
13. Harper Franklin “1810-1819” (18/08/2020) Fashion History Timeline, Fashion Institute of Technology.
14. Grace O’Neill, “How Kimye Changed Fashion Forever”, Grazia Magazine.
15. Rebecca Jennings, “The $5,000 quest for the perfect butt”, 2021, Vox.
16. Cady Lang, “Keeping Up with the Kardashians Is Ending. But Their Exploitation of Black Women’s Aesthetics Continues”, (10/06/21), Time.
17. Kylie Gilbert, “Backing Away from BBLs” (11/08/22), InStyle

Has the sun set on the Me Too era? If you were following along with the Depp v. Heard defamation trial last April, it seems like it did. When Johnny Depp took Amber Heard to court for three vague quotes suggesting she had been abused by him, the world was in a frenzy. Has this hot, blonde, bisexual woman really been abused... or was it the easier answer? That she was an evil psychopath who pulled a Gone Girl on everyone’s favourite fictional pirate. In this episode, Hannah and Maia are finally ready to talk about this blight on cultural history. Discussions include: the popcorn consumption of televised celebrity court cases, TikTok’s true crime cottage industry, Johnny Depp’s hideous hats, and the societal Basic Instinct-ification of hot women. Will Amber Heard be redeemed as a maligned women when the fog clears in a few years, or did Depp v. Heard reverse Me Too for good?

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SOURCES

Amber Heard, “I spoke up against sexual violence - and faced our culture’s wrath. That has to change.” (18/12/18), The Washington Post

Simmone Shah, “What to Know About Johnny Depp and Amber Heard’s Defamation Trial” (05/05/22), Time,

Rajeev Syal, “Why did the Depp-Heard libel outcomes differ in the US and UK?” (02/06/22), The Guardian

Anya Zoledziowski “Did Social MEdia Sway the Johnny Depp Jury?” (03/06/22), Vice,

Nathan Buck, “The use of juries in defamation proceedings in America and Australia” (27/10/22), Kennedys Law

Constance Grady, “Johnny Depp, Amber Heard, and their $50 million defamation suit, explained” (03/11/22) Vox

Anya Zolediowski, “Why Does It Seem Like the Entire Internet is Team Johnny Depp?” (25/04/22)

Antoinette Bueno “Amber Heard Alleges Johnny Depp Abused Her Throughout Relationship: ‘I Live in Fear That Johnny Will Return”, ET Online (27/05/16)

Gene Maddaus, “Why Was Depp-Heard Trial Televised? Critics Call It ‘Single Worst Decision’ for Sexual Violence Victims”, (2022), Variety.

“Jury Sequestration”, US Legal.

Lillian Gissen “ Amber Heard is accused of COPYING Johnny Depp's courtroom outfits in a sartorial 'mind game' as spectators spot multiple similarities between their ensembles - and even their hairstyles - amid $100M defamation trial”, (2022), The Daily Mail

Alex Peters, “Milani Cosmetics faces backlash after wading into Depp V Heard trial”, (2022), Dazed,

Alice McCool, Manasa Narayanan “The Daily Wire Spent Thousands of Dollars Promoting Anti-Amber Heard Propaganda” (2022), Vice