The Lavender Menace - Our employed era, campy sapphic media, & Taylor Swift's millennial cringe

Our employed era, campy sapphic media, & Taylor Swift's millennial cringe

Explicit content warning

07/04/21 • 53 min

The Lavender Menace

Discussing a wonderful listener's emailed hot take about I Care A Lot (2021), in which Renaissance defends their love for morally reprehensible women in fictional media and Sunny recommend Finlay Donovan is Killing It by Ellie Cosimano as an alternative piece of media to I Care A Lot (2021) that is intentionally camp and funny thriller about a morally gray woman that is actually written by a woman and not a corny man with even cornier politics. Then we discuss Taylor Swift's latest song, which is a feature. on Big Red Machine's single 'Renegade.' We are both obsessed with it, of course. Finally, Renaissance recommends a throwback classic movie- The Devil Wears Prada (2006) and Sunny recommends the sci-fi fantasy novella Yellow Jessamine by Caitlin Starling.

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Straights in gay bars discourse, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo obsession era, Taylor Jenkins Reid owns us af

Welcome to season 2 of The Lavender Menace!

We kicked off the second season of the podcast on Instagram live (@renaissancemarie @sunnywithacamera)! Starting off with hot takes as usual, a listener named Robin submitted a wonderful email about their straight sister going to gay bars but also being homophobic...? And we talk about how irritating it is to have people encroach on spaces not for them. Also Renaissance is currently grappling with a The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid hyperfixation so we discuss that at length, particularly in relation to our ongoing Taylor Swift obsession. Sunny recently also read and recommends Taylor Jenkins Reid's most recent book Malibu Rising and talks about the crossovers within these books. Along with the novel Malibu Rising, Sunny also recommends the sapphic fantasy A Curse of Roses by Diana Pinguicha to Renaissance, and Renaissance recommends the lesbian rom-com Imagine Me and You (2005). Follow us on Twitter @thelavenderpod for updates and email us your hot take submission to be featured on the pod at [email protected]!

We are launching a Patreon with exclusive content and patron input on content we consume and discuss for the podcast soon as well, so keep your eyes peeled for that! :)

Next Episode

The politics of superheroes (MCU shit!), our Zola thoughts, & anticommunist military propaganda

Spoiler warnings for this episode: Black Widow (2021) & Zola (2021)

Your favorite lesbian comedy entertainment criticism Aries/Cancer duo back with some scathing opinions on the MCU aka the Marvel Cinematic Universe as outsiders who occasionally partake, our thoughts on the latest hottest A24 movie everyone is talking about, and ramblings about the logical and political fallacies of superhero stories. Re: we don't like girlbosses whose stories function as capitalist, pro-military, pro-imperialist, generally liberal propaganda with weak, shallow themes of morality and 'feminism.'

Our recommendations this week:This Way Up from Renaissance and Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots from Sunny!

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