Category: podcast
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It’s Friday I’m Not Here for the Drama: MAFS UK, Consent and Adult Gap Years
Content note: the first topic discusses sexual assault. There is a warning at the top of that section and chapter markers if you would like to skip ahead.Married at First Sight UK has been pulled from Channel 4 after three former brides made allegations against their on-screen husbands. We use it as a way into…
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It’s Friday I’m Still in Trauma from P.E.
At what point does commenting on women’s bodies stop being something we all just do, and start being the actual problem? This week we look at how school PE shaped a generation of women’s relationships with their own bodies — and why 4.1 million British women in their 50s and 60s are still avoiding exercise…
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It’s Friday I’m Not Growing Old Alone
This week on Friday I’m in Bed; we’re looking at two ends of the spectrum- young people who aren’t going out, and older women working out who they actually want to live the rest of their lives with. Different demographics, same quiet rewriting of the script. Kate kicks us off with the slow death of…
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It’s Friday I’m on Leftie Island
It’s Friday I’m an Angry Young Woman (Apparently) This week we’re unpacking the New Statesman‘s “Angry Young Women” cover story, the right-wing press meltdown that followed, and the very tired playbook of describing women’s politics by their hair colour. Plus: is the manosphere really equivalent to the so-called “femosphere”? Then Stella McCartney has done another…
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It’s Friday I’m Here for a Walk in the Park
This week on Friday I’m in Bed, we’re looking at the week’s most questionable advertising decisions, and asking why the people writing the copy never seem to include anyone who might actually be affected by it. We start with Nike, who put a sign outside their Boston store ahead of the city’s marathon that said…
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It’s Friday I’m Not Too Old For Coachella
Coachella just happened and TFI Friday is back on our screens, so naturally we had a lot to say about both. We’re unpacking the biggest moments from the desert festival, from Sabrina Carpenter’s full-blown Hollywood spectacular to Justin Bieber sitting at a laptop in a hoodie scrolling through YouTube videos of his younger self. The…
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It’s Friday I’m Over the Moon
This week on Friday I’m in Bed, we’ve got two stories that are both, underneath it all, about the same question: who gets celebrated, who gets forgiven, and why does the answer always seem to depend on who you are? Gem kicks us off with the Artemis II mission, because four astronauts are literally on…
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It’s Friday I’m Team Chappell Roan
This week on Friday I’m in Bed, we’re talking about boundaries – who’s allowed to set them and who gets punished for it. Kate kicks us off with Chappell Roan and the security guard incident that’s dominated everyone’s feed. Causing international outrage, 125+ articles in two days, and a ban from a festival she was…
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It’s Friday I’m Choosing Beavers
This week we’re talking about two things that seem completely unrelated but both come down to the same question: who’s selling you something, and should you be buying it? We start with Harry Styles on Saturday Night Live and the Make America Healthy Again hospital sketch that had us howling. It parodies a hospital where…
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It’s Friday I’m Over the Manosphere
Louis Theroux has taken Netflix inside the manosphere — and everyone has an opinion. This week we’re digging into whether shining a light on the grifters and their carefully curated personas actually helps, or whether it just gives them another platform. We’re talking about the contradictions (profiting off women while claiming to despise them), the…
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