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“I love this podcast! It’s one of my favorite things to listen to at work, it keeps me entertained and engaged all day, and I’ve binged the entire archive of episodes over the past few weeks. Maia and Hannah offer intelligent and analytical perspectives on social media and internet culture, mostly exploring fads, scandals, and other moments from the last 10 years or so. I’m always particularly impressed by how they are able to offer insight on different recent cultural micro-eras, remembering what was up in the culture during certain years, and how it affected their personal and social lives. To my tired millennial mind, all of that has become blurred into “the recent mess,” so it’s actually really refreshing to think about how historical moments are being made (and forgotten) in the here and now.
I also appreciate their unapologetically feminist lens, and found the most recent season hugely fascinating in its examination of the relationship between technological innovation, the panic around sex work, puritanical internet culture, and the commodification of women’s bodies. Being faced with how these patterns repeat themselves over and over again is harrowing, but it’s also something that’s deeply important to understand in the moment where we find ourselves, where none of these things are on track to get any better. Thank you both for doing the work.
One thing I do sometimes find lacking on the podcast (and which inspired me to write this review — sorry, gals, I still think you’re great!!) is a queer perspective. While I have no doubt that Maia and Hannah are both queer-positive, and know that they work to incorporate queer literacy into their analyses, I sometimes feel like their arguments could be deepened and expanded by a more explicitly queer-feminist approach (or at least adding it to the mix!) This was particularly noticeable to me on the recent episode about Dating Apps. Ultimately, their argument landed on the side of “dating apps are worsening our relationships to intimacy and increasing a culture of self-commodification.” While I agree with many aspects of that conclusion, I also had the sense that Hannah and Maia’s personal distaste for dating apps and their own experiences with heterosexual dating were impeding their understanding of how these apps might offer some of the only safe and gratifying ways to develop sexual relationships for certain groups of people. It felt like a bit of a cop-out to say “this argument is completely distinct from queer sexual politics, which is a separate and unrelated thing.” From my perspective, queer sexual politics have a lot to do with everything, and the self-examination and sexual negotiation that queer sex often requires can offer many tools for all sorts of relationships. If the self-labeling often found in queer spaces is so distinct from the self-commodification of dating apps, as Hannah and Maia argue, then what makes it so distinct? Might there be some solutions to “the intimacy crisis” to be found by digging a little deeper into that question? ;)
This is still absolutely a 5-star rating for me, because podcasters holding my specific views and perspectives is not a requirement for me to appreciate the intelligence, humor, and nuance they bring to all their work. Keep up the good work, y’all. I’m eagerly awaiting the next season!”
fernmaddie via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
05/25/24
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“Came here as a fan of the Broey Deschanel youtube channel and was not disappointed! Hannah has been a great addition as well!
Really enjoyed the Lindsay Ellis episode, I too had a parasocial relationship with her and was devastated when she stopped making videos :(
Keep slaying girlies!!”
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03/15/23
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“- what more could i ask for from a podcast? i’ve been on social media way too long and more than one of these events have made me feel like i’m losing my mind for having a different reaction than the twittersphere, so i deeply appreciated hearing these guys’ thoughtful reflections on them because...”Read full review »
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03/04/23
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AmYxXx14 via Apple Podcasts ·
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01/19/23
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