Jewties

I honestly think the Netflix marketing campaign was really misleading. I had no idea that this was a French film when I glanced at the poster online and thought it was some weird “Stage Mom” style American reality show that had no self awareness. It honestly looked a little creepy to me. Probably should have looked into it further but just didn’t care enough. Does the French title of the film literally translate to “Cuties” or is this a loose translation?

Benjamin Fisher

Back in the nineties I worked for an attorney who helped author the Amber Alert bill, and along the way learned way more about pedophiles than I ever wanted to. There's one bit in particular that I wish everyone who gets wrapped up in "media depictions" would learn. It's counter-intuitive, but really obvious if you think about it. Pedophiles are into children. Like, duh? But what makes a child… childish? Not makeup. Not pole dancing. Not beauty pageants. (I worked for him back when Jon Benet Ramsey was in the news; this is a guy who was literally famous for prosecuting child sex criminals, and unequivocally declared that pedophilia was not a factor in her murder.) All this shit about sexualizing children is a cold shower to pedophiles because it's exactly the opposite of what they're into. They’re not turned by children acting like strippers; they’re turned on by children who act like children.

Eric_WVGG

"we believe the children" by richard beck good read abt moral panic and child sex abuse relating to satanic preschool hysteria but also about the whole conversation about believing "victims" (children but also of course the feeble weak women) and the myth of repressed memories

I would love to hear y’all talk about cults !!!!

Heather

Especially your takes related to prostitution and sex trafficking

Heather

Really great episode. I think it’s insane that some may consider this pod radical in any way. Y’all have takes similar to most seemingly normal, happy middle aged women I know.

Heather

Please watch the "This is Paris" documentary and talk about it! It's a very enlightening hot mess.

Anna on Cuties: "a little on the nose and a little undeveloped" LOL, put some laurels around that bad boy and put it on the cover.

Cluisdotorg

wrt toni collette in hereditary—immediately after i saw it in theaters, i called my sister to let her know our mom was in a movie

carl

Couldn’t deal with the main woman in I’m thinking of ending things- I found her ill fitting sack dress/ sad limp sweater combo to be deeply depressing. The necklines were so mismatched...

Cara

The thing with Jessa is that she’s a non-Paglia feminist. Whole different circus !

"skid marks" "snail trails" Wow

Thank you for pronouncing PA-GLI-A correctly. Media people drive me up the wall with Italian surnames.

agreed ! especially with reading the book i loved Kaufman’s take

This was the only thing to make me genuinely laugh today thank you

Adam

If anyone wants to learn more about childhood adversity/growing up low income and it links with early puberty. Fascinating stuff I learned in a public health class. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/05/190531085404.htm

S T

Totally support the waist to hip ratio. One of my clients is WAY large, but her waist to hip ratio is totally proportionate...and she is fucking hot in her corsets...plus natural beauty, full blow out and pro looking make up on a daily basis...

Richard Luna

really enjoyed the pod as always, thank you!

BruiseBlu

I’m sure the Red Scare girls will totally look into god’s forgiveness and get back to us in a future pod. The concept of purity is a construct and does not exist in this Hobbesian world.

Elizabeth Warren Moon

I'm Thinking of Ending Things is the best movie Kaufman has ever been involved in. Very wrong take here. Ressentiment all over the place, here.

zac

from Mark Grief, Afternoon of the Sex Children

zac

Thus a society that finds it illegal to exploit anyone beneath the age of legal majority is at the same time interested in the simulation of youth—often by people who are sexually mature but still only on the cusp of adulthood. And in its legitimate publications, as in its vice, it encourages a more general, socially compulsory female urgency to provision youth across the life span, and a male rush to take it. Though the young person has never been old, the old person once was young. When you look up the age ladder, you look at strangers; when you look down the age ladder, you are always looking at versions of yourself. As an adult, it depends entirely on your conception of yourself whether those fantastic younger incarnations will seem long left behind or all-too-continuous with who you are now. And this conception of yourself depends, in turn, on the culture’s attitudes to adulthood and childhood, age and youth. This is where the trouble arises. For in a culture to which sex furnishes the first true experiences, it makes a kind of sense to return to the ages at which sex was first used to pursue experience and one was supposedly in a privileged position to find it. Now we begin to talk, not about our sex per se, but about a fundamental change in our notion of freedom, and what our lives are a competition for.

zac

Merci .... serge gainsbourg references are always welcome to hear, especially in reference to melody nelson-esque romantic/sexual esthetics.

roman louche

Didn't really look into the controversy with this new Cuties/Minions movie, but I had a feeling it was basically --at least in part-- an America-France culture clash.

You’re generally smart (for w*men) but you have a huge blind spot when it comes to sexual morality and its importance in the macro scale. Anna has said she thinks social conservatism is a cope, but I’d say sexual libertinism is as much of a cope for people with a sense of lost innocence they’re afraid they can’t get back. God’s forgiveness is the only way to retrieve that sense of purity many people assume is gone forever. Conservatism certainly is empty without a foundation in God though. Not to make this personal or preachy, but you’re honest and open enough to hear it.

Politics are so kitsch

123scooter

Yee, imma smoke a blunt

123scooter

Agreed about Cuties, if something is hard to watch just say it's hard to watch. making up a fake victim in the whole thing is so fucking manipulative.

Please weigh in on the new Paris Hilton doc on YouTube.

Scott E.

"Jessa Crispin pointed out something that I thought was very astute... men accrue power as they get older and women have more power in the sexual-romantic marketplace when they're younger" lol what? You yourself (Dasha) have made this point in plain language so many times. Everyone has. Jessa Crispin is the thousandth monkey

SE

From one latina to another, happy early Mexican independence day Anna! Viva Red Scare! 🇲🇽🇷🇺🇲🇽🇷🇺

When's Dasha gonna drop the trailer for The Scary of 61st Street

SE

The titles keep getting spicier, my IBS can't take it

Michael Andrew Damaso

lmao

aristippus