The Bimbo Industrial Complex: Recent Episodes
Ava + Clea
This episode we talk Dahmer, OJ, and the podcast that we owe our very medium to - Serial. Not only is true crime everywhere right now, but it's starting to impact active cases and change the way we think about crime and punishment. So why on earth do we love using it as a way to relax??? And is it ever ethical to produce true crime content?
CW: discussion of violence, abuse
Recommended Reading:
Bloody History of the True Crime Genre
Serial is My Favorite Murder
Captured by True Crime
Why do we love true crime - and is it healthy for us?
The Bloody Bubble
The Rise of True Crime
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This episode was recorded on 2/10/22. Since then, there has been an update in the Adnan Syed charges: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-10-12/charges-dropped-against-serials-adnan-syed/101525454
With all the photos of neon-clad Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling going around, how could we not do a Barbie episode? We take a wild ride through Barbie's chequered history in an attempt to discover whether she's actually a feminist, or a role model for eating disorders, or simply a vessel for our wildest fantasies. Naturally, we also talk Bratz and MyScene, and the incomparable Barbie Cinematic Universe!
CW: disordered eating, body image
Required Reading:
http://www.barbiemedia.com/timeline.html
https://www.rd.com/list/barbie-doll-controversies/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6592527/
https://blog.frontiersin.org/2020/10/01/human-neuroscience-child-play-dolls-cognitive-social-benefits-children/
https://www.arc.unsw.edu.au/blitz/read/barbie-cinematic-universe
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14680777.2016.1178158?casa_token=uRNsra42zpAAAAAA%3A-nSUP5JOIqBUQUPEy2HuAK2yLSv0gqAlzKfcSjJL8qC0fxvBBkxiMkUTEo2nngl9dqw6Y1fXSd2xNA
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This episode was recorded on 11/07/22
Happy Pride Month!
We look back on the month that was as we take a deep dive into Rainbow Capitalism: examining the big questions like 'Can a brand ever be truly socially progressive?' and 'Who signed off on that marketing release?!' We also chat some of our favourite queer books and films!!!
https://equityfwd.org/defund-the-bans
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/07/cancel-culture-and-problem-woke-capitalism/614086/
https://www.pedestrian.tv/entertainment/pride-month-corporate-campaigns-ads/
https://guides.loc.gov/lgbtq-studies/stonewall-era
https://www.vox.com/2018/6/25/17476850/pride-month-lgbtq-corporate-explained
https://popular.info/p/lgbtq2022
https://medium.com/queens-of-the-bs/the-queer-sensibility-of-the-nanny-5307f228ca56
https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/oscar-wylee-penalised-35m-for-%E2%80%98buy-a-pair-give-a-pair%E2%80%99-charity-claims#:~:text=Eyewear%20retailer%20Oscar%20Wylee%20has,breach%20of%20Australian%20Consumer%20Law.
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This episode was recorded on 28/06/22
Today we talk cringe - so-bad-it's-good TV, car-crash moments we can't look away from, and years-old memories that decide to resurface just as we close our eyes for a good night's sleep. We discover that blushing makes you more trustworthy, Fleabag's awkward family scenes are political, and Taylor Swift really is the queen of cringe. Finally, we try to make sense of Cara Delevigne's erratic BBMAs behaviour, and try to decide whether it should make out hangxiety better or worse...
Required Reading:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1527476418777838
https://www.theguardian.com/global/2018/oct/14/the-secret-joys-of-schadenfreude-why-it-shouldnt-be-a-guilty-pleasure
https://www.thecut.com/article/how-to-stop-reliving-embarrassing-memories.html
https://www.abc.net.au/everyday/cringe-comedy-tv-why-do-we-cringe/100646596
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20140310-why-blushing-may-be-good-for-you
https://www.vox.com/the-goods/21575707/tiktok-cringe
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This episode was recorded on 22/05/22
CW: Abortion, reproductive health
This week the USA travelled back to the 1800s to seek inspiration for their Met Gala outfits and their abortion policy. We break down what 'Gilded Glamour' was actually supposed to mean, who nailed and failed the theme, and whether any of that actually matters in a world where Roe v. Wade is likely to be overturned. We also come to the earth-shattering discovery that Jason Derulo did not actually fall down the stairs at the 2015 Met Gala, and will be taking some personal time to process this.
Required Reading:
https://www.glamour.com/story/met-gala-2022-theme-explained
https://www.marieclaire.com.au/sarah-jessica-parker-met-gala-advice
https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2022/may/02/met-gala-theme-gilded-glamor-criticism-inflation
https://www.npr.org/2022/05/03/1096097236/roe-wade-original-ruling-leak
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-05-05/anti-abortion-activists-roe-v-wade/101038688
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Information on safe access to abortion in Australia:
https://www.childrenbychoice.org.au/resources-statistics/legislation/australian-abortion-law-and-practice/
Welcome to our 2022 Election Special!!! Tune in to find out which iconic bimbo matches your preferred political party, why Antony Green is the hero we don't deserve, and what on earth the Great Australian Party is (CW: Pete Evans :/). We also de-mystify the minor parties and their sneaky name changes (Smashed Avocado Party for Senate, anyone?) Oh, and we discuss major issues and policy platforms, if that's your thing.
Required Reading:
https://votecompass.abc.net.au/
https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/australia-s-presidential-politics
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-04-20/federal-election-liberal-labor-nationals-greens-policy-positions/100482298
https://www.auspublaw.org/blog/2022/04/whats-in-a-name-political-party-names-and-ruddick-v-commonwealth
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10749393/Fauziah-Ibrahim-fire-ABC-Weekend-Breakfast-host-vanishes-TV.html
https://twitter.com/AusElectoralCom/status/1518450644738514944
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Footy szn is well and truly underway and, unsurprisingly, we have a lot to say about it. We break down AFL through the lenses of race, class, and gender and ponder whether teammates smacking each other on the bum is the best thing to ever happen to masculinity. Also: Clea defends her thesis against allegations of 'pick me-ism' and if being a WAG is wrong, we don't want to be right.
CW: DV, intimate partner violence, violence against women - please skip 36:00-41:50 if needed
Family and domestic violence support services:
1800 Respect National Helpline: 1800 737 732
Women's Crisis Line: 1800 811 811
Men's Referral Service: 1300 766 491
Mensline: 1300 789 978
Lifeline (24-hour Crisis Line): 131 114
Required Reading:
https://meanjin.com.au/essays/marngrook-tom-wills-and-the-continuing-denial-of-indigenous-history/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co3jXyKQg88&ab_channel=BanLiveExport (sorry the video of this is so weird but I couldn’t find the Armstrong comments without it)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wi0nnmPYZu8&ab_channel=WOS
https://www.nature.com/articles/palcomms20163
https://theconversation.com/whether-teams-win-or-lose-sporting-events-lead-to-spikes-in-violence-against-women-and-children-99686
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/07/09/domestic-violence-surges-after-a-football-match-ends
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/feb/01/eddie-mcguire-call-for-collingwood-president-to-resign-after-report-finds-structural-racism-at-club
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-06-14/afl-latest-stance-proves-history-of-aussie-rules-is-in-debate/11202802#:~:text=It%20is%20Australia's%20only%20Indigenous,others%20in%20Melbourne%20in%201859
Clea also has access to heaps of paywalled resources about the role and representation of Indigenous persons in sport - slide into the DMs if you're keen to read more!
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This one goes out to all the wannabe Anna Delveys, Jordan Belforts, and Joanne the Scammers of the world (we're right there with you). What does it say about us that Netflix drops a new scammer series every week and yet we still can't get enough con-man/-woman/-person content? Probably that we like to see rich people suffer and feel smug that we would NEVER have fallen for that...although history and psychology suggest otherwise...
Required Reading
http://rhizomes.net/issue37/pdf/king-carroll.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkA4lwmQq4s
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sarahwatts/2019/03/21/the-psychology-behind-scamming/?sh=20a801c93447
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/09/her-only-crime-was-helping-her-kid/597979/
https://newrepublic.com/article/154404/myth-welfare-queen
http://www.racismreview.com/blog/2010/04/02/racism-in-international-context-nigerian-scam-baiters/
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We try to unlearn our private schoolgirl white saviour complexes and grapple with the harsh truth that travelling to African countries to build structurally unsound houses and take photos with cute kids might not actually be changing the world...today we talk fake orphanages, foreign aid, and the fact that Mother Theresa was actually kinda shady. But the light at the end of the proverbial tunnel is that there are myriad ways to help out in your local communities (and that Clea will research charities for you if you like)!
Required Reading
https://berkeleybeacon.com/stop-going-on-mission-trips/
https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-8322.12514
https://resourcecentre.savethechildren.net/pdf/1398.pdf/
https://apo.org.au/sites/default/files/resource-files/2019-03/apo-nid225731.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw8YVBbQgNg&ab_channel=thejuicemedia
https://meanjin.com.au/essays/so-white-so-what/
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It's raining pet cats and pet nats! In today's episode we take a deep dive into drinking culture in Australia and around the world, bemoan the oversaturation of coke no sugar in the market and slander craft beer and wine bar snacks (as they deserve!). We investigate whether natural wine truly does prevent hangovers, become possessed by our pretentious French alter egos and wander down Beer Street and Gin Lane.
Required Reading:
Shoutout to Ava's dad for this one: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-10/how-natural-wine-has-disrupted-australias-wine-culture/100196930
https://www.vice.com/en/article/3k3ax5/how-dangerous-australias-drinking-culture-alcohol-global-drug-survey-2019
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/jan/20/this-is-not-about-grog-its-about-depression-hopelessness-and-failed-government
https://australiascience.tv/uncovering-the-science-of-indigenous-fermentation/
https://amodrn.com/the-truth-about-organic-wine-and-hangovers/
https://time.com/4865734/organic-wine-health-benefits/
https://www.mic.com/life/how-did-alcohol-get-so-gendered-39060911
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_Street_and_Gin_Lane
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Is everyone getting some but me??? Why the hookup culture moral panic is a tale as old as time and there's no 'normal' when it comes to sex and relationships. We review the Big 3 (Tinder, Bumble, Hinge) and debate the new ethical dilemmas brought about by dating apps and Call Her Daddy's brand of sex-positive feminism.
Required Reading:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0891243213493960?casa_token=7dX9fO2MD8MAAAAA:9Slhso7b_UHsXFWAcfjKr5DccmrQGWaO-LJF7lLwVhwJebnyYq4V6Z2RSOLzTUVDBa-m9QYIyC8
https://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/casual-sex-everyone-is-doing-it
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00224499.2014.906031?casa_token=oH-jpsK9Hv4AAAAA:JaKhqloHNTsgEH6DRxULbHHqBbFToh6JNr41usv6ZevgO9YbVO6LqwqLvkwp5oOgMC_qXTTnrtU
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1037/a0027911?casa_token=zOje5UPjDXsAAAAA:M9umMIGvO7WVJv_M-EdtqtEL4CCBVCR2Y3HwK4n-JEbxxx_7ysEF38ia0zlRJ5EHahkkFOps6Q8
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2014/05/27/why-yesallwomen-is-worth-reading/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886919306798?casa_token=omW9TLTN7Y4AAAAA:ZsTLUrnmexsAQmPUvXItcoJ4z8UE5AH0iZ3lCaYk_gVX1HxbFjUIa2FFv4Y1sBugn72K8QJc9Q
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272775719301104
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Prepare yourself for some serious House of Gucci slander, balanced out by some hearty Wordle adulation. Next, we ask why it seems like everyone is an actor-model-DJ-dog walker-sushi chef-pupeteer these days (and whether we should be polishing our marionette skills). Also @Rihanna, please drop the album sis...
Required Reading:
https://theoutline.com/post/8301/everyone-you-know-is-a-multi-hyphenate
https://www.brookings.edu/essay/the-history-of-womens-work-and-wages-and-how-it-has-created-success-for-us-all/
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/why-gen-z-is-3x-more-likely-to-change-jobs-than-baby-boomers/
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Welcome to a new year of the same old tomfoolery! Join us as we gaze into the oracle to predict what 2022 will bring (spoiler alert: it's mainly natural disasters and the death of world leaders). Then hear why you don't need a new year's resolution - both because you're perfect just the way you are and because the #grind is a big ol' grift.
Required reading:
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.577708/full
https://www.trafalgar.com/real-word/history-new-years-resolutions/
https://annehelen.substack.com/p/is-it-a-resolution-or-is-it-capitalism
https://www.aier.org/article/was-keynes-right-on-short-work-weeks/
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/108107300406875?casa_token=wzJB9ZkHqGMAAAAA:xXoa6Z3FKyp1oPW5E4KNPriboqdkl3hE3jkV3E-kkl-GpGg6e3TFQudolC9bt4y0DP7LJaZSNtd37g
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Merry Christmas/Happy Hanukkah/Habari Gani to all who celebrate (and enjoy the public holidays to everyone else)! We draw on our years of Catholic guilt (Ava) and heathenry (Clea) to unpack how Christianity became hot again. We also share the religious education we have gained through TikTok, including 'Jesus is my Boyfriend', 'Christian Girl Autumn', and the truly disturbing phenomenon that is soaking. Enjoy!
Required Reading:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/06/17/joel-osteen-kenneth-copeland-10-televangelists-trouble/1471926001/
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/05/us/carl-lentz-hillsong-pastor.html
https://businessnewsroom.deakin.edu.au/articles/the-rise-and-rise-of-hillsong-and-what-other-australian-churches-should-learn-from-them#:~:text=The%20online%20popularity%20of%20the,its%20services%20every%20week%20globally.
https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/8/14/20804030/christian-girl-autumn-meme-hot-girl-summer-explained
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2006-02-15/hillsong-accused-of-misleading-indigneous-community/799184
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-09-20/the-christian-converts-who-are-setting-fire-to-sacred-aboriginal/11527402
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CW: eating disorders, weight, dieting, surgery
This week we take the body positivity discussion existential and ask whether have to love our mortal flesh prisons to be happy. Will conditioning ourselves to love our stretch marks and cellulite really dismantle institutionalised fatphobia? We also get into why we are so invested in celebrity body transformations and why BBLs are straight-up terrifying. Plus, we give you some hot girl Christmas present recsfor when you don't want to participate in consumerism for ethical reasons and also because you're broke.
Required Reading:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z2w7dp3
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/oct/25/no-more-mr-muscle-the-activists-raising-body-confidence-for-men
https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/health/diet-nutrition/a35047908/what-is-thin-privilege/
https://butterfly.org.au/unpacking-thin-privilege-weight-stigma/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1740144520303971?casa_token=ltQ7xkywfsQAAAAA:QxbIbghhVeQl5sZyeZY_rdbtKq8sbT9uzQqCEqpMfcMAcco92sgZOXgfTA_9MRBNFIz81sZXqvs
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1740144519303894?casa_token=jJT5QVHyxUgAAAAA:1MqW4yx9hH0wuQ9za9P4w-f50iYOJiUK4mU47YG9JZKZS2-AZSUyy3gKeElXW8m8WZz81sXIEL8
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/jul/23/the-rise-of-the-body-neutrality-movement-if-youre-fat-you-dont-have-to-hate-yourself
https://www.allure.com/story/why-i-dont-use-body-neutrality
https://www.ucpress.edu/blog/35992/in-brazil-plastic-surgery-is-about-power-not-culture/
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Come with us as we venture into the field for a first person investigation into Australian multiculturalism (by way of a Conti Roll). We follow the thread of colonial history in an attempt to work out how the descendants of the original boat people decided that we must 'Stop The Boats' at all costs, and how Australia's beautiful, bustling ethnic food scene may be concealing some unexamined ideas about race and culture. Plus: Clea tells you why straight, white men are better than the rest of us and Ava introduces you to her best ami Rémy...
Required Reading:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/26/dining/re-store-review-australia.html
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674951914
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/12/opinion/columbus-day-italian-american-racism.html
https://lebanesestudies.news.chass.ncsu.edu/2014/11/20/how-the-lebanese-became-white/
https://theundefeated.com/features/white-immigrants-werent-always-considered-white-and-acceptable/
https://www.jstor.org/stable/24878710
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We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to bring you some (semi-) breaking news that is breaking our hearts (in a good way tho)
Please enjoy this bonus episode where we discuss the Sad Girl Superbowl™ (Phoebe Bridgers and Paul Mescal finally confirming they are dating) and some of our other favourite indie darling couples! And Madagascar 3 for some reason.
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Join us today to find out all the ways the healthcare system sucks!!! (But also please take us to the hospital if we get COVID...) We delve into how medical research and practice grossly underserves POC, the LGBTQI+ community, and people with vaginas (and we say 'vagina' a lot). PLUS: the publicly funded research into how hot women with endometriosis are that reads like an Onion article and why the male pill will never take off :///
Required Reading:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22985951/
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/racism-in-healthcare
https://antar.org.au/racism-healthcare
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6489978/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK554585/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5834572/
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https://uppbeat.io/t/cruen/the-lowdown
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This week we put our square eyes to good use and apply a philosophical lens to one of our all time favourite topics, The Simpsons. We deconstruct how Barthes and Bart are two sides of the same post-modern coin and how Baudrillard would have loved to see Marge walk the Balenciaga catwalk. Somehow we also manage to touch on Kony 2012, androgyny, and Kim K at the Met Gala - buckle in for a wild ride!
Required reading:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZHESOq-Gkw
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264486622_From_Barthes_to_Bart_The_Simpsons_vs_Amadeus/link/5e8b5eea299bf1307983c8c7/download
https://www.independent.co.uk./arts-entertainment/books/features/don-t-have-a-vache-from-barthes-to-bart-134343.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/08/style/homer-simpson-fashion.html
https://www.simpsonsarchive.com/other/papers/bf.paper.pdf
https://www.grin.com/document/187317
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Today we live the hater lifestyle and talk about how Rancid Eddie managed to sabotage their 15 minutes of fame and why dubbed media is always* inferior. Next, we deep dive into burning Burberry, gatekeeping Hermès, and lining up to buy sneakers that you'll never wear. Plus: we know diamonds are a girl's best friend - but, in this age of conscious consumption, should they be?
*unless you have visual impairment or visual processing issues ofc
Required Reading:
https://www.marshall.usc.edu/sites/default/files/jnunes/intellcont/Brand%20Prominence%201-12-10-1.pdf
https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/9/17/17852294/fashion-brands-burning-merchandise-burberry-nike-h-and-m
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/02/how-an-ad-campaign-invented-the-diamond-engagement-ring/385376/
https://baghunter.com/pages/chanel-bag-values-research-study
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This episode, we ask the age old question: if being emotionally invested in celebrities and fictional characters is wrong, do we really want to be right? We talk you through parasocial relationships and why people like Emma Chamberlain and John Mulaney seem to have such a vice grip on our collective consciousness. Plus: was the commercialisation of authenticity ever going to be a sustainable enterprise? And why aren't more people talking about Tony Armstrong from ABC News?
Required Reading:
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/on-parasocial-relationships-and-the-boundaries-of-celebrity
https://www.refinery29.com/en-gb/parasocial-relationships-online-cancelling-bon-appetit
https://digitalcommons.pace.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1329&context=honorscollege_theses
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This one goes out to all you 90s kids and y2k enthusiasts who feel like you were born in the wrong generation. Today we take you back to the good old days, and ask - were they really that good? We delve into the evolution and commercialisation of nostalgia, and origins of the collective need to make a remake/reboot/reunion of every piece of pop culture. Our main event is a discussion of the incomparable Olivia Rodrigo and her debut album Sour, which manages to tap into so many layers of early 2000s nostalgia it's easy to forget she was born in 2003. Plus: why you shouldn't meet your philosophical heroes (or Google whether they tried to get the age of consent lowered), but you should drunk message celebrities on Instagram.
Required Reading:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Krystine-Batcho/publication/236640737_NOSTALGIA_The_bittersweet_history_of_a_psychological_concept/links/56ec568e08aed17d09f643b0/NOSTALGIA-The-bittersweet-history-of-a-psychological-concept.pdf
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/09/technology/instagram-text-memes.html
https://mancunion.com/2021/03/19/y2k-fashion-whitewashing/
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/10/opinion/sunday/favorite-songs.html
https://www.refinery29.com/en-au/olivia-rodrigo-brutal-music-video-y2k
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https://uppbeat.io/t/cruen/the-lowdown
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Hey boss babes and bros! Today we give you the lowdown on the rise and spectacular cultural fall of the mythical #girlboss, before delving into how on earth multi-level marketing organisations (i.e. pyramid schemes, but make it fashion) still exist. Somehow we also manage to cover how carabiners are inherently hot, the emergence of the 'gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss' movement, and how Clea is so lonely she'd pay someone to take her on a date (don't ask). Enjoy this deep dive into our collective neoliberal hellscape, and let us know if you'd like to get in on the ground floor of our brand new MLMs!
Required Reading:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0038038520962393
https://collectiveliberation.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Lorde_The_Masters_Tools.pdf
https://dailynorthwestern.com/2021/05/06/opinion/nevo-girlboss-feminism-is-harmful-mocking-it-may-be-too/
https://time.com/6073788/physical-review-girlboss/
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/10528008.2004.11488877?casa_token=257ZoSDp3S8AAAAA:zUCgM84htOht4JFBrIpu2igcBlheHbTQ4xVpdaQJLDdPyl7tjC1UddecXpp9G7X6MXZVmRPib4gSVA
https://repository.uchastings.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1176&context=hastings_business_law_journal
https://www.business.com/articles/mlms-target-women-and-immigrants/
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SPECIAL EPISODE
What's up all you co-star girlies and Robin Hood pundits. Today we bring you the ultimate controversial party quip and alllll the facts to back it up. Like for real - why??!?! can't we just print more money ?!
We take an astrological exploration into the stars and help you explore your feelings through your birth time. Then Resident economist Clea Sanders holds your hand and guides you through how to make even the most argumentative Reggie Murphy wearing commerce boy squirm!
Required Reading:
https://www.advocate.com/women/2020/1/07/chani-nicholas-explains-why-queer-people-love-astrology
https://gen.medium.com/nazi-hippies-when-the-new-age-and-far-right-overlap-d1a6ddcd7be4
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/modern-monetary-theory-mmt-explained-aoc-2019-3
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-03-21/modern-monetary-theory-beginner-s-guide
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https://uppbeat.io/t/cruen/the-lowdown
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Disclaimer: despite LARPing as Byron Bay herbalists this ep, we love science and Daddy Mark/Ken Beheren says go get vaccinated if you can!
Welcome back to the Bimbo Industrial Complex! Today we delve into maximalism, minimalism, and whether less really is more (more materialistic, more rooted in white supremacy, etc. etc.). We pay our respects to our roots with a deep dive into Man Repeller and its (in)famous founder Leandra Medine and trace Tik Tok fashion back to its gaucho pant roots...
Required reading:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/02/03/the-pitfalls-and-the-potential-of-the-new-minimalism?source=search_google_dsa_paid&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI65Xx4vHr6wIVivOzCh2RDgd6EAAYASAAEgIVEPD_BwE
https://pure.solent.ac.uk/en/publications/boredom-and-reinvention-for-the-female-gaze-within-personal-fashi-2
http://www.tiara.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/amarwick_fashionblogs_ICWSM_2013.pdf
https://www.thecut.com/2021/07/leandra-medine-says-she-always-thought-she-was-poor.html
https://www.vox.com/the-goods/21287045/refinery29-black-employees-man-repeller-cosmopolitan-who-what-wear-vogue
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Welcome back to the Bimbo Industrial Complex. On the agenda today - men are trash but make it intellectual by calling it heteropessism. We discuss what that word actually means and how you can use it to justify your continuing addiction to mediocre tinder dates. We dalliance into queer theory, drool over hunky himbos and Clea explains a table!
Required reading:
https://brobible.com/culture/article/short-men-must-earn-more-money/
https://home.uchicago.edu/~hortacsu/onlinedating.pdf
https://thenewinquiry.com/on-heteropessimism/
https://i-d.vice.com/en_uk/article/n7bjyk/what-is-bi-wife-energy-tiktok?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter&Echobox=1618915659#twitterclicid=Echobox
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https://uppbeat.io/t/cruen/the-lowdown
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Welcome to The Bimbo Industrial Complex, where we take the theory and the memes and blend them together in a beautiful mish mash of academia and bimboism! This episode we tackle ecofeminist theory, why men are afraid to recycle and investigate the sustainability claims of eco-warrior instabrand House of Sunny...
Required reading:
https://mashable.com/feature/carbon-footprint-pr-campaign-sham/
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/06/eco-gender-gap-why-saving-planet-seen-womens-work
https://www.mintel.com/press-centre/social-and-lifestyle/the-eco-gender-gap-71-of-women-try-to-live-more-ethically-compared-to-59-of-men
https://academic.oup.com/jcr/article/43/4/567/2630509?login=true
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https://uppbeat.io/t/cruen/the-lowdown
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https://uppbeat.io/t/cruen/in-the-now
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