Unladylike

The tradwife influencer era is over, but judging by Yesteryear mania, our cultural obsession with its aestheticized submission persists even as it erases. Writer Cynthia Salinas Cappellano talks to Cristen about why the stay-at-home fantasy doesn’t extend to Latinas whose moms and abuelas had no choice but marriage and domestic labor, paid and unpaid. They also get into the Gen-Z appeal of an off-camera trad husband versus the humiliation ritual of dating, while questioning what it looks like when the kids grow up and why don’t we see it, too. Plus! The Nara Smith “Call Her Daddy” interview and a tradwife to wellness pivot prediction.

read Cynthia’s essay: “Yesteryear: Reactionary Literature & Why Trad Wifeism doesn’t work for Latinas”

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Unladies Room exclusive: Who is Sophie “MAGA Barbie” Cunningham, and why is this “middle-of-the-pack” player suddenly the center of WNBA attention? Pro women’s basketball non-expert Cristen gives the play by play of why it’s a major season for the league, what sparked Cunningham backlash and how the anti-trans movement is leveraging her to force their playbook on the WNBA, which just so happens to be a predominantly Black and queer league at the height of its cultural power.

Plus! A brief “protecting girls’ sports” debunking with history, healthcare and flagrant cursing.

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Who's living in your vaginal village? Kate and a friend with recurring UTIs take microbiome tests, discuss their results, and talk to a provider to understand how what's living in their "villages" impacts yeast infections, UTIs, BV, fertility, and so much more.

CRAMPED episodes are intended for informational and entertainment purposes only, and are not medical advice.
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You can find Vienna here: https://thecuntsultant.com

About CRAMPED:
Tired of suffering from "death cramps" for 20 years, Kate Helen Downey has to find her own answers. She interviews top doctors and researchers, and delves into topics from period poops to endometriosis surgery to TikTok wellness scams, all to figure out why menstrual pain is so often dismissed and untreated. What she finds will change how you think about your own body and the medical system. Because having a microphone gets you more answers than having a uterus.

About Kate:
Kate Helen Downey is a podcast producer and host based in Los Angeles. She is the host and creator of CRAMPED, a podcast investigation into period pain, and has developed podcasts and live shows for Wondery, Pushkin, and independent creators. She is the co-founder of the science comedy theater Caveat NYC, and used to give renegade feminist tours of the Metropolitan Museum of Art that involved taking shots of whiskey in the security cameras' blind spots.
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The femosphere speaks the language of feminism – pro-women empowerment, anti-capitalist caregiving – and addresses valid material concerns. But its pink-pilled message of bioessentialist fatalism and “hardwired” gender and racial hierarchies offers little in the way of liberation. Dr. Jilly Kay, the scholar who coined “femosphere,” demystifies its manosphere mirror logics, reactionary politics, eugenicist undercurrents and the term’s swift hijacking to scaremonger about gen-Z women’s progressivism.

Jilly's research:
The reactionary turn in popular feminism.
Through the looking glass: Feminism and reactionary politics in the digital hall of mirrors.
A tale of two angers: The manosphere, the femosphere and the gender politics of mediated rage.

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What do femcels, tradwives, and "dark feminine" dating coaches have in common? The pink-pill pipeline of antifeminist feminisms. Cristen unpacks the rise of the femosphere, aka womanosphere – a digital ecosystem of looksmaxxers, female dating strategists, TERFs and trads selling women warped visions of empowerment rooted in biological destiny, gender essentialism and divine femininity. But is the femosphere itself also getting misinterpreted as a far-left phenomenon of radicalized misandrists?

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