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Some articles/podcasts I've been thinking about...
Hollywood Still Doesn’t Know What to Make of Childless Women (The Atlantic) | As a female-bodied person nearing 40, this discussion spanning mostly the new Mary Queen of Scots and Sad Jen memes speaks to me. Our media is still saturated with the notion that women MUST have a partner and babies to be be real/fulfilled/happy/useful/name your trope. A single woman over 40 must, inevitably, be incomplete. I don't actually get this from people in my life, but there's no denying it's prevalent in culture.
The Real Roots of American Rage (The Atlantic) | Interesting look at some of the research on anger, its use as a political/moral force, and the dangers of both uncontained moral outrage and the perfidy of what they call "corporatized outrage" as a manipulative tool.
Starving the Watchdog (Hidden Brain) | Podcast about the hidden costs of local newspapers shutting down, and what that lack of investigative reporting might be doing to our communities. The market cannot make up for the lack in the way it might if we started shopping elsewhere--this is not a case of one supermarket closing and another opening up. It's a case of an initial cost-saving impulse leading to much bigger costs down the way.
They Can’t Hear You, Theresa (The Gist) | Podcast that contains the mentioned rant about Theresa May and Brexit, but noted here for the interview with Ruth Whippman, which I found interesting for the revelation I should have had earlier: that Americans' pursuit of happiness is tied up in a darker notion. The self-help/self-care regimen is, in part, designed to make US feel responsible for our own systemic oppression. This isn't to say that keeping your BuJo is bad or that you shouldn't take that yoga class, but that it's telling that the folks these tactics are marketed to are almost univerally those who already lack power in society. Like diets. There's nuance here, but I just hadn't put it together before--that self-help comes alongside an implication that you need to be doing better. Which may well be true, but it's not the whole story.
Hollywood Still Doesn’t Know What to Make of Childless Women (The Atlantic) | As a female-bodied person nearing 40, this discussion spanning mostly the new Mary Queen of Scots and Sad Jen memes speaks to me. Our media is still saturated with the notion that women MUST have a partner and babies to be be real/fulfilled/happy/useful/name your trope. A single woman over 40 must, inevitably, be incomplete. I don't actually get this from people in my life, but there's no denying it's prevalent in culture.
The Real Roots of American Rage (The Atlantic) | Interesting look at some of the research on anger, its use as a political/moral force, and the dangers of both uncontained moral outrage and the perfidy of what they call "corporatized outrage" as a manipulative tool.
Starving the Watchdog (Hidden Brain) | Podcast about the hidden costs of local newspapers shutting down, and what that lack of investigative reporting might be doing to our communities. The market cannot make up for the lack in the way it might if we started shopping elsewhere--this is not a case of one supermarket closing and another opening up. It's a case of an initial cost-saving impulse leading to much bigger costs down the way.
They Can’t Hear You, Theresa (The Gist) | Podcast that contains the mentioned rant about Theresa May and Brexit, but noted here for the interview with Ruth Whippman, which I found interesting for the revelation I should have had earlier: that Americans' pursuit of happiness is tied up in a darker notion. The self-help/self-care regimen is, in part, designed to make US feel responsible for our own systemic oppression. This isn't to say that keeping your BuJo is bad or that you shouldn't take that yoga class, but that it's telling that the folks these tactics are marketed to are almost univerally those who already lack power in society. Like diets. There's nuance here, but I just hadn't put it together before--that self-help comes alongside an implication that you need to be doing better. Which may well be true, but it's not the whole story.