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Hosted by Gemma Seager, a 40-something, childfree personal trainer and cocktail lover with two very spoiled pugs, and Kate Beavis, a 50-something menopause coach, anti-ageism campaigner and mum navigating grown-up family life.
Honest, warm, irreverent, and unfiltered, Friday, I’m In Bed feels like the chat you’d have with friends who get it.
New episodes every Friday.
Taking on the cultural moments everyone’s talking about — and the ones we probably should be.
Hosted by Gemma Seager, a 40-something, childfree personal trainer and cocktail lover with two very spoiled pugs, and Kate Beavis, a 50-something menopause coach, anti-ageism campaigner and mum navigating grown-up family life.
Honest, warm, irreverent, and unfiltered, Friday, I’m In Bed feels like the chat you’d have with friends who get it.
New episodes every Friday.
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- It’s Friday, I’m Not Obeying Anyone
Has International Women's Day lost its edge?
This week, Gem and Kate dig into the good, the bad and the ugly of IWD. From brands trying to sell us candles instead of equality, to the women-led cooperatives Gem visited in Morocco that show what the day is really about. Plus, Timothée Chalamet ruffled feathers by suggesting nobody cares about ballet and opera anymore, but is cinema the one that should be worried? And we unpack that headline-grabbing survey claiming a third of Gen Z men think women should obey their partners. Spoiler: two-thirds don't, the data needs more nuance than the press gave it, and we really need to stop saying "traditional" when we mean "sexist."
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Gem shares her incredible International Women's Day experience visiting women-run cooperatives in the High Atlas Mountains. from a village café built by 40 women to a carpet cooperative where the boss called it her "queendom." Meanwhile, Kate went to an IWD gig that barely anyone turned up to, and they both ask: has the day become too fluffy to matter? Should we take it back as a protest?
Timothée Chalamet told Matthew McConaughey he didn't want cinema to go the way of ballet and opera as "things nobody cares about anymore." Kate and Gem argue that actually, cinema could learn a thing or two from ballet and opera about making the whole thing an experience worth leaving the sofa for.
A global survey of 23,000 people across 29 countries found that a third of Gen Z men and boys believe women should obey their partners. But Kate and Gem dig into the detail. The age range spans 13 to 29, the survey is global with vastly different cultural contexts, and the media framing ignored that the majority don't hold these views.
Topics covered: International Women's Day, corporate feminism, women's cooperatives in Morocco, Timothée Chalamet, ballet and opera, cinema vs streaming, the experience economy, Gen Z masculinity, media framing of survey data, Andrew Tate and incel culture, parenting and critical thinking, Gen Alpha
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